Fox Corp. Names Steve Chung Chief Growth Officer (Exclusive)

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News Channel has defied its many critics for a quarter century, surviving shocking internal scandals and weathering myriad controversies with its primetime hosts to become a profit-generating juggernaut for Rupert Murdoch. But there is no question that its traditional linear revenue base is shrinking, which is why Fox Corp.

Sky Studios has secured a big name to succeed outgoing CEO Gary Davey.

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Outkick Media, a sports-focused digital media brand that gained attention in the years after its founding in 2008 by relentlessly attacking ESPN, is being acquired by Fox Corp.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Corporation said profit in its third fiscal quarter rose owing to increases in value of some of its outside investments, even as overall revenue fell due to comparisons with 2020, which contained a Super Bowl and a red-hot news cycle focused on the Trump administration and the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.Revenue fell to $3.22 billion, compared with $3.44 billion in the year-earlier period.

Fox Corp. beat Wall Street analysts’ forecasts for its fiscal third quarter, with results that reflected difficult comparisons with the Super Bowl period a year earlier.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeGrab your keys: HBO and HBO Max are leaning heavily into in-person drive-in events for their joint Emmy For Your Consideration campaign next month.

Tubi, the Fox Corp.-owned free streaming video service, plans to launch a full slate of original programming in the fall, including content developed by Fox Entertainment. The streaming service plans to unveil its plans and make its pitch to advertisers at its newfronts presentation next week.

Tubi, Fox Corp.’s free, ad-supported streaming service, will enter the original programming arena this fall.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok announced a new CEO and COO, in what its Chinese parent company ByteDance said was “a strategic reorganization” to optimize the popular short-form video app’s global teams and support its continued growth.Shouzi Chew, ByteDance’s CFO, will now also become CEO of TikTok.

The Walt Disney Co. has named Paul Richardson as chief human resources officer effective July 1,the company said Thursday.

NBCUniversal has named Jim Denney Executive VP and Chief Product Officer, Direct-to-Consumer overseeing Peacock’s global product strategy.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNBCUniversal hired Jim Denney, a TiVo veteran who most recently was at Hulu, as executive VP and chief product officer of direct-to-consumer, overseeing Peacock’s global product strategy.Denney will start at NBCU next month. He will be based in New York and report to Gidon Katz, NBCU’s president of direct-to-consumer.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterWWE has appointed Claudine Lilien to the role of senior vice president and head of global sales and partnerships, Variety has learned.Lilien previously held senior leadership roles across Fox Corp., Fox Sports and Fox Networks Group. She most recently worked as senior VP of client management and solutions at Fox Sports.

Ed Meza @edmezavarBelgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, who examined the ties between the international arms industry and Western political establishments in his recent documentaries, the award-winning “Shadow World” and “Blue Orchids,” is set to explore its impact in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in his new project, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.”Grimonprez and producer Daan Milius are presenting the project at the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival’s CPH:Forum financing and

Chris Legentil, a veteran of streaming service DAZN as well as Showtime and the NBA, has been named SVP and head of global communications for WWE Corp.