Mike Cavanagh won’t have time to get settled in his new role directly overseeing NBCUniversal before he faces a testy crowd of analysts when Comcast reports its first-quarter 2023 earnings Thursday. They’ll be primed to grill the company president on his plans to get the media operation growing again.
The former CFO is no stranger to Wall Street, and he’s a trusted right hand to Brian Roberts, the company’s chairman and CEO. But he’s not a familiar figure in Hollywood or New York media circles, and that makes the challenges he faces following the abrupt ouster of NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell all the more daunting.