{"id":337469,"date":"2025-12-10T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337469\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:52:09","slug":"sky-expands-cecile-frot-coutaz-role-after-priya-dogra-exit-to-channel-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337469\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Expands Cecile Frot Coutaz Role After Priya Dogra Exit To Channel 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sky\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sky\" data-tag=\"sky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky<\/a> Studios boss C\u00e9cile Frot-Coutaz has had her remit expanded to include advertising as <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/channel-4-name-new-ceo-priya-dogra-1236642243\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236642243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Priya Dogra exits to run Channel 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe understand that Dogra, who has been Sky\u2019s Chief Advertising &amp; New Revenue Officer for just over a year, will not be replaced directly but Frot-Coutaz will incorporate advertising. Telegraph Media Group Chief Commercial Officer Karen Eccles is also joining Sky as its MD for Sky Media UK and ROI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline understands the pay-TV giant is taking the opportunity of Dogra\u2019s exit to bring editorial and advertising closer together. Eccles, who had been with The Telegraph owner for eight years, will report to Frot-Coutaz, who is currently CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sky-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sky-studios\" data-tag=\"sky-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Studios<\/a> &amp; Chief Content Officer at Sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m pleased to be stepping into this role at such an important time in the industry,\u201d said Eccles. \u201cI look forward to working with the Sky Media team, building on its strong foundations and helping to shape the next phase of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDogra\u2019s shock exit to Channel 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/channel-4-name-new-ceo-priya-dogra-1236642243\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was announced this morning<\/a>. The former Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA boss landed at Sky last year and spearheaded Universal Ads, a cross-industry initiative between Sky, ITV and Channel 4. She begins her Channel 4 gig in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrot Coutaz has been with Comcast-owned Sky for nearly five years. She was <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/02\/cecile-frot-coutaz-sky-promotion-sky-studios-1235818870\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promoted last year <\/a>when the studios and content divisions were brought together, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/01\/sky-stephen-van-rooyen-stepping-down-uk-ireland-1235800277\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several weeks after<\/a>\u00a0Sky revealed UK and Ireland CEO Stephen van Rooyen was stepping down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky Studios boss C\u00e9cile Frot-Coutaz has had her remit expanded to include advertising as Priya Dogra exits to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,148053,75,147960,11610,148054,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-337469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cecile-frot-coutaz","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-priya-dogra","13":"tag-sky","14":"tag-sky-studios","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}