Skydance TV Sets Out Its Leadership Line-Up, Confirming Channing Dungey's Role

Skydance TV has published who runs what across its television business, and the list covers studios, news, sport and streaming. Variety reported the structure on 28 October 2026, after George Cheeks, the company's TV co-chair and chief content officer (the executive who oversees what gets made), set out titles for his direct reports in a memo to staff.

The structure follows the merger that brought Paramount and Warner Bros. together under one roof. Cheeks is the only one of the three co-chief executives of old Paramount Global to move across to the new company. Before the merger he had been Paramount TV media chair, a role he held after Skydance first took control of Paramount.

The biggest name in the memo for many viewers may be Channing Dungey. She is confirmed as head of Warner Bros. TV Group and of the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery cable networks. Earlier in October she had confirmed her Skydance role in a memo to staff, and she extended her deal with the company, according to Variety reports from 6 and 9 October. Her title as Warner Bros. TV Group chairman and chief executive was also reported in early October.

The studios have new or confirmed heads too. David Stapf runs CBS Studios, which makes shows for CBS and other buyers. Matt Thunell leads Paramount TV Studios. Amy Reisenbach continues as president of CBS Entertainment, the unit that picks and develops the network's prime-time shows.

Sport gets its own group. David Berson leads Skydance's Global Sports Group, which covers CBS Sports, TNT Sports and WBD Sports. Tom Cibrowski is operations head for CBS News.

Behind the on-screen names sits a team that keeps the business running. Byron Rubin is chief operating officer of Skydance TV. Laurel Weir oversees research and programming insights, the work that studies what audiences watch and feeds that back into decisions about what to make. Mike Benson leads marketing, and Chris Ender is head of communications and publicity.

On the money side, JB Perrette is co-chair of Skydance TV and chief business officer. He also holds those two roles for the Skydance direct-to-consumer division, the part of the company that sells streaming services straight to subscribers rather than through a TV channel or a third party.

For the people who work in these departments, a memo like this answers a question that has hung over the year. Who signs off on the next season, who speaks for the company, and who pays for the next crew? Each title in the memo decides where those answers go. The memo does not, by itself, change any show's schedule or renewal.

Cheeks had first addressed staff on 6 October in a memo sent to TV employees across studios and networks. Variety reported that he and Perrette were expected to reveal the executive structure the following week, with possible new titles for executives such as Dungey. The structure was published on 28 October.

For a general viewer, the practical effect is slower to show. A new title on an org chart does not put a new drama on the screen. It does tell the people making those dramas who they report to, and that is usually where decisions about what gets finished begin.