Longtime Executive Marc Graboff to Exit NBC

Longtime NBC executive Marc Graboff, leader of West Coast business methods, is departing the network.our editor recommendsGolden Globes Trial: Witness List Includes CBS' Ces Moonves, NBC's Marc Graboff, and Dick Clark An NBCUniversal representative confirmed the split and stressed that's was "friendly" and added the "mutually convenient" exit date remains worked out. Graboff had signed a completely new three-year offer August 2010, several several days just before the Comcast-NBCUniversal merger was completed. He is just the latest executive to exit since Bob Greenblatt needed the reigns at NBC Entertainment last The month of the month of january. Well-loved in Hollywood, Graboff was instrumental in shepherding discussions with creative talent one reason former NBCUni chief Rob Zucker in 2007 elevated him to co-chairman with Ben Silverman in the network's entertainment division. Graboff was considered the adult inside the relationship while using peripatetic Silverman, who left NBC this past year after an not effective run. Graboff's exit, which was first reported with the La Occasions, is not unforeseen. His duties grew to become progressively attenuated inside the wake in the merger as well as the ongoing transformation in the fourth-place network. Graboff grew to become an associate of NBC in 2000 after a period controlling business matters at CBS. Right before CBS, he will be a partner within the La lawyer of Troop, Meisinger, Steuber and Pasich and, right before that, he will be a founding partner in the firm of Silverberg, Katz, Thompson and Braun. Related Subjects NBC