John Skipper, vice president of magazine publishing at Disney, estimated that the circulation guaranteed to advertisers was likely to drop to around a million and then be rebuilt.

Enter John Skipper, vice president of magazine publishing at Disney, who has repeatedly said he is looking to expand the magazine division.

"The story just didn't happen," John Skipper, ESPN's executive vice president for content, said yesterday.

As of October, 2011 Bodenheimer was replaced by John Skipper.

As of January 1, 2012, Bodenheimer moves into the position of executive chairman, with John Skipper replacing him as president.

General manager was John Skipper, a Mason City, Iowa, journalist.

"I'm glad nobody thought about it before," John Skipper, ESPN's executive vice president for content, said yesterday by telephone.

John Skipper is ESPN's current president, a position he has held since January 1, 2012.

"Once it was clear he had reservations, we decided to move on," John Skipper, ESPN's executive vice president for content, said yesterday in a phone interview.

John Skipper, executive vice president at ESPN, said the two companies started putting the deal together in just the last two weeks.