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After five years with ESPN Star Sports, Simon Yu, ESPN STAR Sports‘ senior vice-president, affiliate sales, will be moving on to take on new and different challenges in his career.
In a mutual agreement with the company, Yu will not be renewing his contract come 30 June.
Yu joined ESPN Asia in 1993 before the company‘s joint venture with Star TV in 1996. Yu is one of three people who started the distribution of ESPN in Asia. After the joint venture of ESPN and Star Sports, Yu continued to oversee the distribution sales of both channel brands and syndication in Asia.