Another High-Level OWN Executive Leaves

EXCLUSIVE: The turning door at OWN: The The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey Network continues. The newest high-level executive disappear the fighting cable network is SVP business and legal matters Alan Saxe, a correctly-respected executive who went OWN’s business matters department. Thinking about his departure (he apparently left to pursue other options), Tina Perry, V . p . Business and Legal Matters, will lead the department as interim mind. Saxe might be the most recent in the slew of executive departures at OWN, most recently EVP of production and development Lisa Erspamer. Meanwhile, OWN has existed a cost-cutting mode after an yearlong find it hard to use inside the ratings despite a marque brand together with an enormous cash infusion from co-parent Discovery Communications. I hear the network’s professionals are actually told the company in in the present form isn't sustainable and cuts are necessary, especially in the primary La office. Leading the charge because area might be the brand new Discovery Communications CFO Andy Warren, that's been examining OWN’s books. Inside the cost-cutting measures, OWN was recently asked for to eliminate temp positions. The network has received plenty of essential positions, including assistants, filled by non-full-time employees, a thing that will finish. On Rosie O’Donnell‘s show, about 30 crew everyone was release when the show was scaly to some more compact venue lately. That’s furthermore for the 5-6 staffers who playing Page Hurwitz who left as executive producer in December. Before joining OWN last season, Saxe offered as SVP of economic and Legal Matters at Warner Horizon Television and EVP of Telepictures Prods. and EVP of economic and Legal Matters for Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.