Shannon O'Neill

Shannon O’Neill was elevated to president of Travel Channel. In this role, he’s responsible for building brand strategy, developing additional programming and talent to increase ratings and creating new business opportunities for Travel Channel. He previously served as Travel Channel’s senior vice president and chief financial officer, where he was responsible for the core financial reporting, strategy and analysis function, as well as the overall digital strategy and operations for the brand.

Prior to joining Travel Channel, Shannon served as senior vice president and general manager of Golf Channel’s new media business from 2007-10. Under his direction, Golf Channel’s new media business grew from single-digit revenues to over $50mm.

Prior to joining Golf Channel, Shannon served as vice president, emerging networks for Comcast Programming Group where he was responsible for developing and launching new media businesses. His final project with Comcast was the launch of FEARnet, the first multi-platform horror network, in partnership with Sony and Lionsgate.

Prior to joining Comcast and Golf Channel, Shannon co-founded a startup venture which developed a proprietary system for capturing, filtering and tagging financial information on the web. He began his career in the Philadelphia office of Ernst & Young.

Shannon is a CPA and received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Delaware. He, his wife Dawn and their daughter Devin live in Bethesda, Md.