Shapiro: ESPN's pivitol development player.(Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Mark Shapiro)(Interview)

Multichannel News, August, 2005 by Umstead, R. Thomas; Reynolds, Mike

ESPN is cable's leader in terms of holding the rights to marquee sports programming. As executive vice president of programming and production, Mark Shapiro is not only a key executive in negotiating those rights deals, but he also oversees the ESPN Original Entertainment division, which produces reality, scripted and movie fare. Shapiro recently sat down with Multichannel News news editor Mike Reynolds and programming editor R. Thomas Umstead to discuss myriad topics, including the sports giant's scorecards with original program development, Major League Baseball, the National Football League and NASCAR. [At press time, published reports indicated that Shapiro might leave ESPN for a job with Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, or with NBC News. Shapiro did not...

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