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From The Hollywood Reporter:
The revolving executive door at OWN is spinning again.
Peter Liguori is stepping in as interim CEO of the Oprah Winfrey-Discovery Communications joint venture, taking over for Christina Norman, who has been dismissed after a slow ratings start and budget overruns. The news was announced Friday by Oprah Winfrey, chairman of OWN, and David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications.
Liguori also remains COO of Discovery Communications. But his main focus will be on getting OWN on track. The network had a strong opening weekend in January as curious viewers tuned in. But since then, OWN's rating are tracking only slightly higher than the network it replaced, Discovery Health. And the programming costs at OWN are much higher.
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