Report: Pat Fili-Krushel OUT at NBC

Pat Fili-Krushel

Six months after being replaced as the head of NBC News by Andy Lack, Pat Fili-Krushel  executive will exit the company on Nov. 1, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Fili-Krushel was brought to NBCUniversal by CEO Steve Burke, with whom she worked closely with at ABC, where she was president of ABC Television Network from 1998 to 2000. Burke appointed her to run the company's news assets in 2011. It was shortly after Ann Curry's infamous departure from Today, and Burke was looking toward Fili-Krushel to impose some stability. Fili-Krushel ousted longtime NBC News president Steve Capus, who is now at CBS News, and hired Deborah Turness to run the company's flagship news division.

Several current and former NBC News sources blamed Fili-Krushel for the NBC news division's overall decline, citing her lack of experience in news.  The news division continued to generate headlines for a series of personnel conflagrations. There was the highly public ousting of Meet the Press moderator David Gregory and more recently, the news division has been rocked by the fall of Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who was found to have embellished multiple accounts of his time reporting from the field.

And in March, Burke named Lack chairman of NBC News and MSNBC.

An NBCUniversal spokesman declined comment.