Ed Erhardt, head of Ad Sales for ESPN will step down in early 2019 after two decades at Disney-owned sports network. An innovator, Erhardt pioneered the "double box" that permits viewers to keep watching sports action while ads are in an adjacent window. This has been especially useful for sports like soccer and golf, which don't have stoppages of play that are designed to fit a block of TV ads. He also helped ESPN found its own in-house creative agency.
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