​Travel Channel has promoted Shannon O’Neill to the role of president, replacing Laureen Ong, who departed a little more than four months ago.

O’Neill currently serves as a senior VP and the Chief Financial Officer at the channel, a post he has held for three years. He’ll assume the president’s job immediately, reporting to Scripps Networks President Burton Jablin.

“Shannon is an outstanding leader and strategic thinker with extensive experience creating new media businesses, building audiences and growing revenues,” Jablin said. “His mission as president of Travel Channel will be to deliver programming that embraces and celebrates travel as a video content category, while increasing the network’s audience profile of upscale, educated and highly valued viewers.”

Prior to joining Travel Channel, O’Neill was a senior VP and GM of the Golf Channel’s digital business.

Read More: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter

Brief Take: Travel Channel has tapped an insider with extensive digital experience to steer the cabler through a rapidly changing television landscape where viewers want content delivered on a variety of screens and platforms.

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