by Thinus Ferreira
The Walt Disney Company's struggling ESPN (DStv 218 / StarSat 248) is losing its head of content Connor Schell who created its 30 for 30 documentary franchise, according to American reports.
The exit of Connor Schell, ESPN’s executive vice president of content, is not related to ESPN's announcement last week that it's cutting 500 jobs of which 300 are current staffers and 200 of which are positions that have been vacant and are being eliminated.
ESPN said its restructuring and changing its focus and shifting resources towards its video streaming business and digital content.
Connor Schell was in charge of all-non sports programming and was instrumental in ESPN's documentary content and will be creating his own production company.
Connor Schell's role will not be replaced but instead, be split across various ESPN executives.
ESPN previously broadcast its well-done 30 for 30 documentary series in South Africa and across sub-Saharan Africa and SuperSport recently picked it up again to pad its own schedules during the Covid-19 pandemic earlier in 2020.
