Two examples today--first, NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy was 
quickly fired after it was discovered that he had made many racial and 
gender slurs in front of other network employees, including the accusations 
brought by Gabrielle Union about how things are run at "America's Got 
Talent."  NBCU will continue the investigation, meanwhile, programming and 
production for all of NBCU's entertainment networks (including the big OTA 
one) has been centralized under Frances Berwick, who came to NBC when they 
bought Bravo in 2002 (she had been at that channel in their last years of 
their "Film & Arts Network" identity when owned by Cablevision, having come 
from UK Channel 4) and in recent years had been in charge of NBCU's 
"lifestyle networks" (besides Bravo, E!, Oxygen and Universal Kids):

https://deadline.com/2020/08/nbc-entertainment-broader-culture-assessment-the-investigation-paul-telegdy-misconduct-mark-lazarus-1203007424/

At the network, Telegdy's successes were mostly in reality franchises like 
"The Voice" and "AGT," which became the monster summer hit it is now under 
his watch (and supposedly the most valuable television franchise of them 
all, even if most of the money goes to Simon Cowell and producers 
Fremantle).  But he got moved out of late-night, having successfully 
cleaned things up after the Leno/Conan contremps and moving Fallon into the 
pole position of "The Tonight Show," and it was and is believed that Lorne 
Michaels hated his guts.  It is also believed that Dick Wolf hates him, as 
well, and he and Michaels are not men you want to have as enemies at NBCU.  
And of course, the Ellen affair isn't helping anything (thanks to the 
combined forces of NBC, Tegna and Hearst-Argyle, Ellen is mostly on NBC 
affils headed up by those owned by those companies in the biggest markets 
and "Game of Games" is on NBC prime time).

Meanwhile, a surprise over at WarnerMedia where former NBC chairman Robert 
Greenblatt and well-traveled programmer Kevin Reilly are out--Warner Bros. 
CEO Ann Sarnoff is now in Greenblatt's position, while HBO programming 
chief Casey Bloys is now also in charge of the streamer HBO Max and the 
former Turner channels TBS, TNT and TruTV:

https://collider.com/warnermedia-hbo-max-exec-firings-kevin-reilly-bob-greenblatt-explained/

It could probably be said that the slow start of HBO Max (which includes 
not being available on Amazon or Roku for the cord-cutters) was the major 
factor behind the firings.  It could also be said that the robbing of 
programming from the other Warner channels to throw on HBO Max hasn't 
helped things any (not to mention the dithering over where to put 
"Snowpiercer" and the moving of TBS' scripted shows to Max).  And if the 
Tenderloins ever decide to go to another company, TruTV will be screwed 
(just look at how many times a day they air "Impractical Jokers").  But 
they made the firings while Oliver's on vacation, so they don't have to 
worry about him taking another shot at them and AT&T on Sunday night.  
("HBO Max--it's not HBO, it's just TV.")

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