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Ben Silverman out at NBC Universal


July 27, 2009 After a rocky two-year tenure, Ben Silverman stepped down Monday as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios to launch a company with Internet mogul Barry Diller. NBC Universal is consolidating all of its TV entertainment operations under company veteran Jeff Gaspin, who has been named chairman of the combined new division, NBC Universal Television Entertainment. UTG is comprised of entertainment cable networks USA, Bravo and SyFy; Hispanic network Telemundo; NBC's owned-and-operated station group; and its first-run and off-net syndication operations.

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