The chief executive of WarnerMedia and most of his senior leadership team are leaving the company on the eve of its takeover by rival Discovery, a mass turnover in the top ranks at one of Hollywood’s largest empires.
在华纳传媒(WarnerMedia)被竞争对手探索频道(Discovery)收购前夕,其首席执行官及大部分高层领导团队将离开该公司。这家好莱坞最大帝国之一将面临高层人员的大规模人事变动。
Jason Kilar — a video streaming veteran that WarnerMedia parent AT&T had hired to take on Netflix — is to exit, as will eight others including the group’s chief financial officer and the chief executive of the entertainment portfolio.
流媒体业务资深管理者杰森·基拉尔(Jason Kilar)将辞职——华纳传媒母公司美国电话电报公司(AT&T)曾聘请他来挑战Netflix。该集团首席财务官和娱乐业务部门首席执行官等其他8人也将离开。
The exodus comes as Discovery prepares to take over WarnerMedia after its chief executive David Zaslav engineered the media coup of the decade. The $43bn merger brings together his much smaller company, Discovery, with WarnerMedia, the owner of HBO, Warner Bros and CNN.
此次人员流失正值探索频道准备收购华纳传媒。探索频道首席执行官戴维·扎斯拉夫(David Zaslav)策划了这场十年来最重大的媒体政变。这宗430亿美元的交易将合并规模小得多的探索频道,与拥有HBO、华纳兄弟(Warner Bros)和美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)的华纳传媒。