Cynthia Littleton Business EditorLongtime Warner Bros. TV executive Susan Rovner has emerged as a top candidate for the job at NBCUniversal overseeing programming for NBC, USA Network, fledgling streamer Peacock and the rest of the company’s entertainment cable networks.
Sources close to the situation say that as of Wednesday Rovner had not engaged in formal negotiations with NBCU and that she is one of several people under consideration by NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming.
But there is no doubt Rovner is in the mix, which means the veteran studio executive may soon face the choice of moving to a new senior post in the Comcast universe or staying at Warner Bros.
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