Chris Licht, the embattled chief executive of CNN, will leave the network. The news was first reported by Dylan Byers of Puck News, and confirmed in a report by The New York Times NYT . Byers reported that Licht will be replaced on an interim basis by Amy Entelis, a longtime CNN executive who worked for years under Licht’s predecessor, Jeff Zucker.

The news was announced on air around 9:30 a.m. ET, with CNN saying a team of executives would take over leadership of the network until a new chief executive is named:

David Zaslav, the chief executive of CNN’s parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, broke the news to CNN staff on Wednesday morning, saying that he had met with Licht and that he was leaving, effective immediately, according to the Times.

“For a number of reasons things didn’t work out, and that’s unfortunate,” Mr. Zaslav said, according to a recording of his remarks. “It’s really unfortunate, and ultimately that’s on me. And I take full responsibility for that.”

Licht arrived at CNN with a reputation as a top producer who’d created MSNBC’s Morning Joe and CBS Mornings before moving into late night at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But the warm reception went cold quickly. Licht’s first task as CEO was to kill off CNN+, the streaming platform that was said to be the future of the network. The move resulted in hundreds of layoffs and subjected CNN to widespread ridicule.

Licht’s first effort to re-program the network, CNN This Morning, slumped in the ratings and produced embarrassing stories about conflict between Don Lemon and his co-hosts before Lemon was forced out. Damaging stories about Licht, which showed him to be aloof and absorbed in media reports about himself, sealed his fate. CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy reported that the “one near-universal sentiment” behind the scenes at CNN was that “Licht has lost the room.”

On Monday, Licht apologized to staff for the media reports that distracted from the work CNN’s journalists had been doing, and vowed to “fight like hell” to regain trust. Darcy said Licht “struck the right tone,” but that inside CNN it was “too little, too late.”