Hunter Nickell Leaves as Speed Channel Chief

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Speed Channel said president Hunter Nickell is exiting the driver's seat at the motor-sports programmer, having grown to its current 84-million-subscriber reach under his reign since 2005.

He will finish several projects at Speed over the next few months and continue to explore opportunities within the Fox Sports Media Group, the channel said.

An interim replacement will be named shortly, the network said.

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Kent Gibbons
Kent Gibbons

Kent has been a journalist, writer and editor at Multichannel News since 1994 and with Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He is a good point of contact for anything editorial at the publications and for Nexttv.com. Before joining Multichannel News he had been a newspaper reporter with publications including The Washington Times, The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal and North County News.