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06.07.2023 - 22:53 / deadline.com
Anyone looking for a sign of Comcast President Mike Cavanagh’s strategy as the recently installed overseer of NBCUniversal got a bright one Thursday.
The seasoned finance exec unveiled a significant revamp of the company’s senior management ranks. Donna Langley, Mark Lazarus and Cesar Conde headed the list of those gaining promotions, while Susan Rovner, chairman of entertainment content for NBCU television and streaming, was a high-profile exec to exit the company.
One notable aspect of the new org chart is Langley’s new dual role overseeing both film and TV. At companies of comparable scale to NBCU (and even at Netflix and other pure tech firms), the film and TV realms are still generally run separately even though the line between them gets blurrier every day. In a staff memo, Cavanagh said Langley will “leverage her longstanding relationships with the creative community and ability to partner with the most prolific storytellers in our business to unlock a seamless cross-portfolio creative strategy including programming, distribution and marketing across film, television and streaming.”
The company is creating the NBCUniversal Studio Group, which Langley will lead, while Lazarus will operate the Media Group and Conde will sit atop an expanded News Group. The last of four direct reports to Cavanagh will be Mark Woodbury, who will oversee the Universal Destinations & Experiences Group.
Before offering details about the exec revamp, Cavanagh’s memo reinforced what had already become clear in the two-plus months since he took over for ousted NBCU CEO Jeff Shell. “I will continue to lead NBCU as President of Comcast and will not name a new CEO,” Cavanagh wrote, affirming his earlier outlook in the immediate aftermath of
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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic What’s NBC nowadays? Even before the ongoing writers strike scrambled the network’s fall schedule, its identity — historically quite strong as a place for chewy, grown-up dramas and chic, cerebral sitcoms — had seemed hazy. Promising comedies, the sort that might have grown to fulfill the role recently played by “30 Rock” or “Superstore,” got unceremoniously booted from the air after barely a chance to thrive; new dramas, from “Ordinary Joe” to “The Thing About Pam,” seemed painfully undistinguished. It’s been a tough few years. And as much as the departure of former NBCUniversal chairman Susan Rovner, a career TV executive previously known for her work at Warner Bros. Television, is just latest bit of media industry consolidation, it’s also a moment to observe that the legacy network and its corporate siblings have struggled to find a way forward. (Rovner’s replacement, Donna Langley, will oversee both film and television for the company.) In the years since Rovner came into the job in 2020, there have been limited bright spots — the “Night Court” revival on NBC, “Poker Face” on streamer Peacock. But there’s been a general tone of a lack of faith in the core of what NBC is and does, one that makes today’s news feel like less of a surprise than it otherwise might.
ousted from the company in April. Cavanagh noted in the memo that he would continue to lead NBCU and that a new CEO would not be named.
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