Hulu CEO goes to Sony

Peter Kefka at recode:

Hulu, the streaming video service owned by several big media companies, is replacing its CEO: Mike Hopkins, the former 21st Century Fox executive who has been running the company since 2013, is out. Randy Freer, another Fox executive who has been president and chief operating officer of that company’s TV business, is in.

Hopkins is leaving to run Sony TV, which has been restructuring its leadership over the last year; he’ll report to new Sony Pictures Entertainment boss Tony Vinciquerra, who worked with Hopkins at Fox.

The move comes less than two months after Hulu made a splash at the Emmys with “The Handmaid’s Tale.”