Rogers Media has announced Keith Pelley is leaving the company this summer to become the commissioner and CEO of The European Tour, a global golf event featuring 48 events in 26 countries.
Pelley has been with Rogers Media since August 2010, overseeing changes including the reorganization of the media division to make the department more compatible across platforms. He also oversaw the acquisition of NHL rights in Canada, launching video streamer Shomi and digital magazine platform Next Issue Canada.
According to Rogers, the search for Pelley’s replacement is on now, with an exact departure date to be announced later.
Prior to joining Rogers Media, Pelley worked as president of Canada’s Olympic Consortium. He has also held positions at the Toronto Argonauts, TSN and FOX. He is taking over from departing CEO George O’Grady in his new role at The European Tour.
Pelley’s departure marks the second president of a Canadian media company to leave their post in a week’s time – late last week it was announced that Kevin Crull was out at Bell Media following a editorial dispute around Let’s Talk TV coverage.
When the going gets tough this guy gets going. Argos/CFL
and financial troubles – left them high and dry. Stayed for the 2010
Olympics (easy home games) but bolts on the 2012 London games (financial
disaster for Bell/CTV), real difficult decisions coming for Rogers
(including its sport properties – Blue Jays, MLSE NHL) with limited over the air distribution in the not to distant future. They can’t make money using the CBC’s distribution network, they’ll loose their shirts trying to do it on their own, so he is out of here.
Also Rogers scheduled to issue quarterly results this week. Yikes!! Nice timing, He was in so far over his head at Rogers. he’s – Herb Tarlik on steroids. The Euro Golf Tour will find out
soon enough.
Yes, it seems that way…and its a great way out of the $5.2B NHL deal that will be extremely hard to “break even” on…but that’s an unknown for many, many years down the road. He is, however, well liked, well thought of, and highly sought after. Just remember that Herb Tarlik sold a lot of spots! I would work with him again in a heartbeat….unlike that joke of a counterpart of his at Bell Media who couldn’t sell a telephone to Alexander Graham Bell!