Changing of the Guard at Comedy Central as Exec Doug Herzog Departs

Early Wednesday afternoon, one of the television industry’s most influential moguls announced his retirement. Viacom’s Doug Herzog, who worked as an executive at the company for over 30 years, sent out a letter to his fellow employees announcing that he was ending his tenure with the company on January 12th.

Herzog had a hand in shaping much of the culture that’s been seen on television in the last few decades. He began his career in 1984 as a programming executive at MTV. In the mid-nineties, he made his way over to…