The 'Late Show' exec will succeed Jeff Zucker, who resigned from WarnerMedia on Feb. 2.
Licht will join the new company from CBS’since 2016. He is also an executive vp at CBS in charge of special programming.
Before joining the late night comedy show, Licht was a veteran news producer, serving as an executive at CBS News and having re-launched the CBS morning showas its executive producer. Before joining CBS News in 2011 he was the executive producer of MSNBC’s
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