Network Boss Quits, Apologizes for Stunt
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By Michael Levenson, The Boston Globe  Feb. 10--The general manager of the Cartoon Network, under fire for  approving a marketing campaign that sparked a bomb scare in the Boston area  last week, abruptly resigned yesterday, surprising local officials.
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The founder and former CEO of Black Entertainment Television apologized Thursday to Sen. Barack Obama for what appeared to be veiled comments this week regarding the Democratic presidential hopeful's acknowledged drug use as a teenager.
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Less than two months after being fired as NBC's entertainment president, Kevin Reilly has been hired by Fox for the same job as part of a restructuring that includes the promotion of Peter Liguori to entertainment chairman.
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The incoming head of AOL said Tuesday he left a 31-year career at NBC for the chance to transform the online business into a formidable rival to television and other traditional media.
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How does a MySpace executive announce his resignation? On his MySpace page, of course. Fox Interactive president Ross Levinsohn wrote Friday in a blog post that he would step down effective November 27.
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Tonight&#39;s broadcast is his last in the chair. Making good on an exit plan announced in May 2002, he is stepping away from daily journalism to pursue his varied other interests.
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Recent network apologies suggest a climate of cowardice inside the major media companies.
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CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amid a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq. Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy.
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The head of Cartoon Network resigned Friday after the network's guerilla marketing scheme for one of its shows went bad last week and led to a bomb scare in Boston - a fiasco that cost its parent company $2 million.
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VETERAN US news anchor Tom Brokaw was to step down today after 21 years in the job, leaving an industry that has been transformed in the past decade by the advent of cable news and the internet.
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Pierre Danon, BT&#39;s most outspoken executive, yesterday revealed he was quitting the former phone monopoly for a better-paid job, saying he had grown frustrated at not running the whole company.
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The man charged with making US computer networks safer has quit after only a year in the job.
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TiVo Inc., a developer of television  recording technology, said on Thursday Chief Financial Officer  Steve Sordell has announced his resignation.
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Departure of two anchors comes as television networks face shifts in viewership.
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A former Charter Communications Inc. executive left jobless when the nation's third-largest cable television provider eliminated his position without explanation last month will collect nearly &#36;600,000 in severance, the company announced Friday.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 9--Controller Steve Westly hasn't always been notable for his aggressiveness in office, but he is ending his tenure with a bang.
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Charles Giancarlo, who was seen as a likely candidate to head Cisco Systems, has resigned from the networking giant after 14 years to "pursue new professional opportunities," Cisco announced Thursday.