Gaspin pushed through The Apprentice and The Biggest Loser during a stint at the broadcast network.
Painfully shy, Gaspin rarely attracts media attention, despite a long, successful career in television.
Gaspin expects two nights of scripted programs along with one reality show, some Dateline hours and repeats.
"It was working at acceptable levels financially, " NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin told reporters on Sunday.
Silverman's two-year tenure, while Gaspin's entertainment cable empire--including top-rated USA Network, Bravo, Oxygen and Sci Fi--has seen ratings and revenue soar.
That and popular original series like Monk and Psych have helped raise USA Network's operating net revenue 42% since Gaspin took over.
According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, Gaspin was told this week that he too would be shown the door.
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Though Gaspin claims the 10 p.m. move had not yet proven a wrong decision for NBC -"It was working financially, " he argued.
As head of Bravo in 2003, Gaspin green-lighted Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, a gay-themed series his boss said was too risky.
Gaspin frets about the growing use of digital video recorders that squelch ads and the use of computers rather than cable networks to watch TV.
Gaspin's cable empire operating margin (that is, Ebitda) last year dwarfed that of the broadcast network, 45% to 7%, according to research firm SNL Kagan.
Now Jeff Gaspin will follow suit, announcing in a company wide letter Monday that he too will step down as soon as the merger is complete.
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While his counterpart at the NBC broadcast network, Benjamin Silverman, loves media attention, Gaspin is shy, unassuming and uneasy making speeches or otherwise calling attention to himself.
Update: Several days after reports surfaced, Jeff Gaspin officially resigned Monday as chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment, a role he has held since July of 2009.
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Most of the credit for those numbers goes to Jeffrey Gaspin, 47, the boyish-looking head of all the company's entertainment cable channels--USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi and Oxygen.
Even the network's new entertainment chief, Jeff Gaspin, told The New York Times on Sunday that he'd be happy if Leno averages a 1.5 rating in the advertiser-beloved 18-to-49-year-old demographic, which would spell instant death for any other broadcast network show.
Though the broadcast network, and notably Gaspin, gained positive press and industry good will for returning to a schedule heavy on scripted fare from Hollywood heavyweights like JJ Abrams and Jerry Bruckheimer this season, NBC continues to languish in the ratings basement (Sunday Night Football ratings aside).
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