Peter Liguori

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Peter Liguori is an American business executive and is the President and chief executive officer of Tribune Media.[1] He was appointed in January 2013, and is also a member of Tribune Media Company’s board of directors.[2] During his tenure, the company acquired Local TV Holdings, LLC,[3] doubling the size of its local television station group, and Gracenote, combining it with Tribune Media Services to form one of the world’s leading providers of entertainment metadata.[4]

He was a member of Yahoo!’s board from 2012 to 2014.[5]

Before Tribune, Liguori served as Chief Operating Officer of Discovery Communications.[6][2] Before joining Discovery in 2009, Liguori served as Chairman of entertainment for Fox, credited with helping the channel FX grow in prominence.[7][8] Prior to assuming that position in 2005, Liguori was president and CEO of News Corp.’s FX Networks since 1998, overseeing business and programming operations for FX and Fox Movie Channel.[2][9]

Liguori joined Fox/Liberty Networks in 1996 as senior vice president, marketing, for a new joint venture, which now includes Fox Sports Net, FX, Fox Sports World, SPEED and National Geographic Channel.[10] Before joining Fox, Liguori was vice president, consumer marketing, at HBO.[11] He also held several positions in HBO’s Home Video Division, including vice president, marketing, and senior vice president, marketing.[11] Before HBO, he worked in advertising at Ogilvy & Mather and Saatchi & Saatchi.[10]

Liguori produced the independent feature film, “Big Night.”[12]

Liguori was elected to the board of trustees for the Paley Center for Media in October 2014.[13]

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