ESPN's George Bodenheimer Exits This Week

George Bodenheimer

George Bodenheimer, who joined ESPN in 1981 as a driver in the mailroom and rose to the top of the cable sports giant, is exiting the company at the end of the month.

The LA Times is reporting Executive chairman of ESPN's board, Bodenheimer told staff Tuesday that this would be his final week. ESPN is a unit of Walt Disney Co.

Bodenheimer had stepped back from overseeing the day-to-day operations of ESPN in 2012 when John Skipper became president and chief executive.

“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.

Bodenheimer joined ESPN just two years after the sports channel launched.

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