NBC-Universal announced on Thursday its final executive structure under its expected new owner, Comcast, which as TheWrap first reported features several division heads reporting directly to peacock-in-chief Steve Burke, the Comcast COO who will become the chief executive at NBC-Universal.
The new breakdown puts Bob Greenblatt and Ted Harbert at the head of the company but with more than a half-dozen additional direct reports to Burke. As TheWrap previously reported, NBCU President Jeff Zucker will leave, as will Jeff Gaspin, Zucker's chief spokeswoman, Allison Golllust, and ad sales chief Mike Pilot.
As expected, Ron Meyer will continue as President and COO, Universal Studios. Adam Fogelson will continue as Chairman, Universal Pictures.
Here is the official line-up:
* Ted Harbert will join NBC Universal from Comcast as chairman, NBC Broadcasting. He will be responsible for advertising sales, NBC affiliate relations, research, domestic syndication and the NBC station group.
* Bob Greenblatt, recently president of entertainment at Showtime, will become the chairman of NBC Entertainment, handling prime time and late night programming, business affairs, West Coast research, marketing, public relations, scheduling and NBC Universal Media Studios. Marc Graboff and Angela Bromstad will report to him.
* Bonnie Hammer will become chairman of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios, with USA, SyFy, E! Entertainment, G4, Chiller, Sleuth, Universal HD and UCP (Universal Cable Productions) reporting to her
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* Lauren Zalaznick, president of NBC Universal Women and Lifestyles, will become president of NBC Universal Entertainment and Digital Networks and Integrated Media. Bravo, Oxygen, and iVillage will continue reporting to her. So will the Integrated Strategic Marketing Group, which handles such initiatives as Green Is Universal, Healthy at NBC Universal and Women at NBC Universal
* Dave Cassaro will become president of Cable Advertising Sales, reporting to Hammer and Zalaznick
* Jeff Shell, who now runs the Comcast programming group (including Ted Harbert’s E!), will become chairman of NBC Universal International, based in London
* Patricia Fili-Krushel, currently executive vice president of administration at Time-Warner, will join NBC Universal as executive vice president with several functions reporting to her, including media works, business strategy, human resources and legal
* Steve Capus will remain president of NBC News/MSNBC
* Dick Ebersol will continue to run NBC Sports and will inherit Comcast’s Golf cable channel
* Mark Hoffman remains president of CNBC and reports to Burke
* Matt Bond, content acquisition head at Comcast, will take over distribution at NBCU. Bridget Bakerand JB Perrette will report to Boind.
Burke said those name would fill their new roles once the deal with Comcast closes, which is expected to happen by early next year.
"We are beginning our leadership announcements now because with the anticipated close of the deal nearing, we want to give everyone enough time to begin to think about the specific opportunities and challenges they will face beginning the day of the close," he said in a news release.
