NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell speaks to the media on the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in July 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Shell is out of his job after an “inappropriate relationship.”

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NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell speaks to the media on the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in July 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Shell is out of his job after an “inappropriate relationship.”

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Jeff Shell, the pinnacle of Comcast’s huge leisure and media enterprise, NBCUniversal, is leaving his position instantly, the corporate stated Sunday, after an investigation discovered that he had engaged in “inappropriate conduct.”

Shell had labored at Comcast for 19 years. In a short assertion, he apologized for an “inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company,” and stated he was “truly sorry” for letting down colleagues.

Comcast’s assertion added that outdoors counsel had been employed to supervise the investigation into Shell’s habits following a grievance, however supplied only a few different particulars.

Comcast has not but named a successor to Shell, and introduced that NBCU’s senior managers would now report immediately into the president of the Comcast, Mike Cavanagh.

Cavanagh stated he was “disappointed to share this news” in a separate assertion signed by himself and Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts, the son of the Philadelphia-based firm’s founder. “We built this company on a culture of integrity,” Roberts and Cavanagh wrote, according to CBNC. “You should count on your leaders to create a safe and respectful workplace.”

Shell took on the NBCU CEO place in January 2020, succeeding Steve Burke simply weeks earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic devastated massive swathes of the corporate’s revenues, throughout information programming, leisure networks, motion pictures, and theme parks.

He joined Comcast in 2004 from Fox’s cable division, and served as head of worldwide operations in London earlier than additionally chairing the corporate’s movie and leisure division.