Steve Bornstein is currently the President and CEO

Chief executive officer

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 of the NFL Network

NFL Network

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 and is also the National Football League

National Football League

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's Executive-Vice President of Media. Prior to joining the NFL, Bornstein was the Chairman of ESPN

ESPN

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, and also served as president of ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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. While at ESPN, he organized putting SportsCenter

SportsCenter

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reruns on during the morning hours.

Bornstein began his career as a producer, and later executive producer, at WOSU-TV

WOSU-TV

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 in Columbus, Ohio. He also worked with Warner-Amex Cable

Time Warner Cable

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, producing Ohio State Buckeyes football

Ohio State Buckeyes football

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 programming for the company's interactive QUBE

QUBE

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 system. In January 1980, he joined ESPN as manager of programming when the cable sports network was a four-month-old start-up. He advanced through the network’s programming and production ranks, becoming ESPN’s youngest president and CEO in 1990 at age 38. Three years later, he was given the additional title of corporate vice president of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.

He was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Fair Lawn, New Jersey

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 to Julian Leon and Marge Frankel Bornstein, as the youngest of four (Fred, Andy, and Faye), and was raised in Fair Lawn. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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 and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

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 in communications.

As president of both ESPN and ABC Sports he succeeded Dennis Swanson as president of ABC Sports. Dennis Swanson, in turn; succeeded Roone Arledge

Roone Arledge

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as Arledge went on solely to become president of ABC News before his retirement in 1998.