George Bodenheimer, the executive chairman of the board at pay-television broadcaster ESPN, is to leave the company at the end of this week.
Bodenheimer, who joined ESPN in 1981, just two years after the broadcaster’s launch, has scaled back his day-to-day duties at the company since John Skipper became president and chief executive in 2012.
“It is impossible to completely capture the impact George has had on our company and on so many of us during his remarkable 33 years with ESPN,” Skipper said in a staff memo.