Turmoil leads to Bloomberg TV exodus
There’s static at Bloomberg TV.
Bloomberg LP’s cable business network lost an executive producer this week, the latest in a string of at least 11 departures during an especially tumultuous time at the media company.
Allison Girvin, an executive producer for morning show “Market Day,” left Bloomberg on Thursday to take a job at NBC, sources said.
Girvin was handpicked by Claudia Milne, who led Bloomberg’s TV operations in the US for little more than a year before she was pushed aside and given a “special projects” role by founder and CEO Mike Bloomberg.
Bloomberg, which charges $24,000 a year for its financial data terminals, went through one of its biggest layoffs ever last week when it cut 80 editorial staffers around the globe.
Milne was removed from her position after a public spat with Bloomberg and had been “walking around like a chicken with her head cut off,” one insider told The Post.
Bloomberg was also miffed at Milne over the departure of John Newhouse, who ran graphics for the TV channel for about five years and was favored by the founder, insiders said.
Milne, a veteran news producer for the BBC, came aboard just as Bloomberg was overhauling its multimedia operations. On the TV front, that entailed more political coverage, such as a show led by “Game Change” co-authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
Other recent departures include:
- Ben Geldon, a senior producer who oversaw “Market Makers”;
- Keith Berecz, a product manager for multimedia, including TV;
- Courtney Coupe, an executive producer for digital who also overlapped with TV;
- Alyssa Zahler, a video producer;
- Producers Brian Price, Lauren Alperstein, Yang Yang and Peter Cook.
Bloomberg spokeswoman Amanda Cowie declined to comment.