John Skipper Quotes (19 Quotes)

Al was not comfortable and let us know he was not comfortable with our vision of where we are going. Back in November he said it was the greatest job ever invented. So sometime between the last couple of weeks and November apparently he had a change of heart.

This 'Monday Night Football' team enthusiastically embraces our vision for sports television's signature series.

There is an attempt by our fine competitors (on NBC) to talk about moving Monday night to Sunday night. Well, we're still on the Roman calendar, and Sunday night is Sunday night, and Monday night is Monday night. ... We believe we will still be the marquee, stand-alone NFL event.

I hope we'll do a little more international football-centric production of the games so that it'll feel more and more authentic and more and more like ESPN is part of the international football world,

The last time I checked, we're still on the Roman calendar.

Al wasn't comfortable with our vision. We reached a satisfactory resolution with Al. He did a fantastic job at ABC for 30 years, but once he said 'No,' we needed to move forward. We want to work with people who want to work with us.

We were very happy with our relations with Sega, ... However, if you think about who you want to be working with for the long term ... EA is the natural choice for us to be associated with.

Nothing finalized, ... It's natural we'd think about things such as the X-games. We certainly play a lot of poker on our air, so we're thinking about that. We're also thinking about bass. We have the rights to the bass license.

I've never been a believer that we should create channels for all these niches like beach volleyball. They just don't pencil out. Because if you have 12,000 people, you can't afford to do it. And if you can't afford to do it, you can't make any money on it.

This is a time when consumers want whatever they want wherever they want it on the device they want. It's no longer about just sitting in front of the TV.

This deal allows ESPN and the NHL to further extend the game to fans whether they are watching television, logging onto their computer or flipping open their mobile phone,

First and foremost, The Full Circle initiative demonstrates ESPN's commitment to serving fans however and wherever they consume sports. It also offers a wonderful showcase of the collective exposure we can provide, particularly for a big event like North Carolina-Duke, which appropriately takes place on the first anniversary of ESPNU. In time, we plan to build the Full Circle concept by applying similar blanket coverage to future events.

Once it was clear he had reservations, we decided to move on.

Ruffian's story is one of the most poignant of her time. This project will continue our strategy to make content available to consumers across multiple platforms and serve fans with superior programming.

Al was not comfortable and let us know that he was not comfortable with the way that we were going. We want to work with the people who want to work with us. We made a decision quickly to move on.

Al let us know he was not comfortable with our vision.

We will propel MNF into a 21st century, all-day, exclusive, multi-media event that will engage fans in entirely new ways.

Al Michaels worked hard, did a fantastic job for ABC for 30 years. I respect that, and we appreciate that.

We will double the fans that watch Monday Night Football in a measured audience across all our platforms.