Is Iger Behind ESPN Chief's Shocking Exit?

[...]what about his contract extension? [...]it simply doesn't make sense that Skipper created a new hierarchy for ESPN just months ago if he had any thought of leaving in the near term. Going back a couple of years, this reporter learned that Iger had offered up Pitaro's services to Skipper on several occasions to shore up what some in Burbank considered a less-than-stellar senior management team in Bristol, Connecticut, or at least one that didn't have an obvious Skipper successor in its ranks. In the aftermath of Disney's Dec. 14 announcement that it will acquire significant parts of 21st Century Fox, Iger revealed he will stay at Disney through 2021, which not only apparently takes him out of the running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 but also gives him more time to deliver to the Disney board his own designated successor.