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NBC Universal digital chief Kliavkoff exits

FROM VARIETY: Exec helped spearhead launch of Hulu

By Michael Schneider and Diane Garrett of Variety -- Video Business, 11/4/2008

NOV. 4 | FROM VARIETY: NBC Universal chief digital officer George Kliavkoff is ankling the Peacock.

Kliavkoff told staffers on Monday that he is exercising an option in his contract that allows him to leave NBC U at the end of this year. The exec, the first in the digital job, helped spearhead the launch of Hulu, the conglom's online video joint venture with News Corp., and served as its interim CEO before Jason Kilar took the post.

Read the full story on Variety.com.

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