CHANNING DUNGEY RESIGNS AS ABC ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT AS FOX TAKES OVER

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Channing Dungey is leaving her role as ABC's Entertainment President.

     Channing Dungey [is] the ABC Entertainment president who made the bold decision to yank Roseanne after its star made a racist tweet, has resigned her post.
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     She is the first black person in history to be the president at a major broadcast network in America.    

Dungey began her career in entertainment as a development assistant for Davis Entertainment. She later joined Warner Bros. as a production executive, where she helped develop and supervise a number of commercially successful films including The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Heat (1995), The Matrix (1999), and The Devil's Advocate (1997).^[6]  

     Dungey joined ABC Studios in the summer of 2004 and worked as head of drama. Dungey was hired as president on February 17, 2016, replacing Paul Lee.^[7] Dungey oversaw the development of ABC Studio shows such as Scandal, Criminal Minds, How to Get Away with Murder, Nashville, Quantico, Army Wives and Once Upon A Time,^[8] as well as the second cancellation of Roseanne on May 29, 2018. Dungey previously defended Roseanne over racially controversial jokes made on the show. ^[9]  

     Dungey was ABC's entertainment president when a Blackish episode was cancelled. Dungey noted ABC executives disagreed with the creative direction of the episode, wherein showrunners featured a segment on NFL players kneeling during the American national anthem to protest police brutality and show support for black human rights. ^[10] 

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Her exit comes right as new executives from Fox are coming to the network after the 20th Century Fox acquisition. Because Dungey would have been reporting to Fox's Walden, who would now be Disney TV Studios head, her exit had been rumored for some time now as many thought she would head somewhere else...

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