Why is Pat Younge from The Travel Channel ( travelchannel.com ) stepping down as chief?
Pat Younge, the British head of US cable network The Travel Channel, is to step down after more than four years in the role in order to return to the UK. Younge, the brother of the Guardian columnist Gary Younge, was BBC head of sports programmes and planning before moving to the US in 2005 to become president and general manager of the channel. The channel was owned by Discovery at the time of his arrival but is now part of Cox Communications. Younge, who was in contention for the BBC2 controller job after Jane Root stepped down to become general manager of the Discovery Channel in the US, instead ended up following her to the broadcaster. Root subsequently left her Discovery role in late 2007 and has now set up her own independent firm, Nutopia. In a statement, Cox Communications said the firm’s president, Pat Esser, and its senior management team knew of Younge’s intention to move back to London in time for his youngest child to begin secondary school as far back as 2007. When he mo
Pat Younge, the British head of US cable network The Travel Channel, is to step down after more than four years in the role in order to return to the UK. Younge, the brother of the Guardian columnist Gary Younge, was BBC head of sports programmes and planning before moving to the US in 2005 to become president and general manager of the channel. In a statement, Cox Communications said the firm’s president, Pat Esser, and its senior management team knew of Younge’s intention to move back to London in time for his youngest child to begin secondary school as far back as 2007. “As tough as I will find it to leave my team at Travel Channel Media (TCM), I’m fulfilling a promise I made to my two children, who remained in the UK when I joined TCM in 2005.” Sources: http://www.guardian.co.
