Liguori out as Discovery Communications COO

Peter Liguori, Discovery Communications COO and, for a lot of several days taken, the man accountable for the The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey Network, will probably be departing the business within the finish of year. Liguori's bailiwick remains their joint endeavors -- OWN using the famous host the famous host oprah, kidnet The Hub with Hasbro, and 3net using the new the new sony and IMAX. Liguori has held many high-level positions inside the cable industry, including prexy and Boss of Foreign exchange and senior V . p . of promoting at Cinemax. More youthful crowd offered as chairman of entertainment for your Fox network. Liguori mentioned that his tenure at Discovery happen to be "incredibly rewarding" in the news release launched Wednesday. "It has been a privilege to own brought to Discovery's mission also to have aided lots of systems and kinds boost their ambition and accelerate their creative momentum," Liguori mentioned. "My easier to all the wonderful people in the senior management team and, particularly, for the employees whatsoever amount organization who can be found in each day thinking about the completely new idea, the story which has not learned yet." Discovery Communications prexy and Boss David Zaslav recognized Liguori for his "enthusiasm and artistic vision" and thanked him for coping with "some pretty challenging projects, like the launches within our joint endeavors." Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com