31 Quotes by George Bodenheimer

This is a big day for our company. An expanded base in Los Angeles will help fuel our overall long-term growth.

ABC Sports has a very strong legacy and sports fans understand it.

It shows you the weight this property has.

Everyone at ABC and ESPN mourns the loss of a great friend and colleague. Chris was a pioneer in sports television and was the pre-eminent play-by-play announcer to a generation of sports fans, ... More importantly, he was a true gentleman, beloved by all. He treated everyone with respect and friendship.

The biggest challenge is that the game is at the conclusion of a lot of football games on Sunday.

It seems clear that OLN is certainly setting itself up as a competitor to ESPN. We welcome it. It will make us better.

I'm only looking at it in the context of what it does for my company.

Obviously we're celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era, but we're also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It's a bit of mixed emotions.

Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .