Fox's Artie Kempner going to ESPN to direct Monday Night Football

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For the third time in seven years, ESPN is switching out its Monday Night Football director. The company has hired former Fox Sports production executive Artie Kempner to take over for Derek Mobley—who took over for Jimmy Platt merely three years ago. And three years before that, Platt replaced Chip Dean, who‘d been there for 18 years.

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[W]ith a Disney-produced Super Bowl approaching in two years, ESPN content president Burke Magnus told me that Kempner, whose Fox Sports deal was expiring, was too good to pass up. (Mobley will remain at ESPN, most likely as a college football director, a role he handled before moving to Monday Night Football in 2023. Steve Ackels will remain an MNF producer.)

Magnus knew that Kempner, who‘s been part of Fox‘s NFL coverage since the network started carrying league games in 1994, was one of only 12 people who have directed a Super Bowl—the Pats-Eagles game in Jacksonville in 2005 and the Pats-Giants contest in Arizona in 2008. "

— Puck —