There is great unrest at the American media giant NBCUniversal. An affair with an employee forced the boss to give up his job.
“I had an inappropriate relationship with a woman at the company, which I deeply regret,” Jeff Shell wrote in a statement distributed by parent company Comcast. The media group includes the Hollywood studio Universal and TV channels such as NBC, MSNBC and USA.
change at a critical moment
The management change announced on Sunday comes at a critical time for the group. As cable TV revenues decline across the industry, NBCUniversal is acquiring streaming heavyweights Netflix and Disney+. The in-house service Peacock had 20 million customers at the end of last year – but posted an operating quarterly loss of about a billion dollars (911 million euros).
Shell has been at the helm of NBCUniversal since early 2020 and has been with the company for nearly two decades. The Wall Street Journal reported that before allegations of improper conduct were considered, Shell got a job at the parent company. At the time, Comcast was exploring a merger of NBCUniversal with the video game giant Electronic Arts – and one of the plans was for EA boss Andrew Wilson to take over management of the new company.
The charge against Shell was filed by the woman with whom he had the affair, the Wall Street Journal writes based on people who were aware. She is an experienced journalist with the company. At NBCUniversal, a top executive was fired in 2020 after a relationship with the company.
Source: Krone
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