The Sky Arts channel director, John Cassy, is to relocate to the Wall Street Journal for six months in order to help develop the online video strategy of News Corporation's recently acquired title.
Cassy, who will take up the secondment in New York later this month, will also work on other business developments at the newspaper as part of an internal career development programme - which now encompasses the Wall Street Journal, after it was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp at the end of last year.
The former Guardian media business correspondent will be replaced at Sky Arts by James Hunt, an executive producer at production company Liberty Bell, maker of the BBC's Grumpy Old Men.
Hunt, a former Granada controller of lifestyle programmes and producer whose credits include This Morning and Loose Women, most recently executive produced Sky Arts' The Book Show, fronted by Mariella Frostrup.
He previously worked in multichannel broadcasting a decade ago when he helped launch the Granada Sky channels, including Men & Motors.
Hunt joined Sky Arts at the beginning of the month for a handover period with Cassy.
While at Sky Arts, Cassy has taken the digital channel into sponsoring the English National Opera and Hay on Wye festival, while also boosting ratings with Johnny Cash concerts.
He is expected to return from the WSJ in mid-January.
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