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Turner Sports President David Levy talks about the future of sports media, including escalating rights fees and extracting value from live, unscripted events like sports. He discusses television's future in a world where cord-cutters, cord-shavers and cord-nevers consume content -- including sports -- on their on mobile phones and tablets. Levy also addresses the Mayweather-McGregor fight and the future of Disney's ESPN, the dominant brand in sports that has lost millions of subscribers. \u0010\u0010Levy oversees Turner's portfolio of networks and businesses, including TNT, TBS and Cartoon Network. On the sports front, he recently led Turner's expansion of its media rights partnership with the NBA. Turner Sports also includes the NCAA men's basketball tournament, Major League Baseball, the PGA of America and an eSports league run in conjunction with WME/IMG.