Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company to Atlanta-based cable channels such as CNN, TBS and TNT, plans to split into two publicly traded companies, largely parting its television networks from its streaming business.

Discovery has tapped Guy Griggs to lead ad sales for CNN. Griggs will join the company as senior vp of ad sales and client partnerships later this month, and report to WBD ad sales chiefs Ryan Gould and Bobby Voltaggio,

Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday hired Guy Griggs, one of the chief members of The New York Times' sales team, to be CNN's senior vice president of ad sales and client partnerships. Griggs will spearhead sales for all things news from WBD in his new role,

Guy Griggs is jumping from one news giant to another. Griggs, currently vice president of national sales for New York Times Co., will join Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN later this month as its new senior vice president of ad sales and client partnerships,

The film and television giant will turn its cable networks, including CNN and TNT, into one company and its streaming and studios business into another.

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The move, which reallocates assets such as HBO Max and CNN, is the latest reflection of how streaming is remaking a media business in which Warner Brothers Discovery and other legacy players traditionally garnered considerable revenues from "bundled" cable ...