David Leavy Named COO Of CNN Worldwide
deadline.comDavid Leavy, a top executive at Warner Bros. Discovery, as been named COO of CNN Worldwide. Leavy will oversee commercial, operational and promotional activities across the network.
The move is effective on June 20. Leavy currently is chief corporate affairs officer for Warner Bros. Discovery, and will maintain public policy and social responsibility oversight on behalf of Warner Bros.
Discovery. He has been with Discovery for 23 years. The network has seen its ratings languish. In May, its primetime audience dropped 25% from the same month a year earlier, to an average of 494,000 viewers.
The network also saw a decline in the total day audience. Licht’s strategy has been to focus more on the network’s newsgathering, rather than opinion personalities, and he’s been in the midst of retooling the nighttime lineup.
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