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Courtesy of ESPN John Lasker, who helped ESPN launch itself into the direct-to-consumer era, with oversight of an area that will likely grow in importance and more video consumers abandon cable for streaming, plans to leave the Disney sports-media giant in late September.
The decision, according to a person familiar with the matter, is his. Lasker has worked at ESPN for 27 years, joining in 1999 as a supervisor of sales planning before advancing to account sales executive in 2002 and manager of program planning just one year later. In 2006 he assumed responsibility for programming and acquisitions for ESPN’s digital media.
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