Pary Bell is to leave Canwest Global to join Rogers Media as VP of product, digital media, a Rogers spokesperson has confirmed.

Bell was VP of content for Canwest Digital Media, responsible for overall digital content strategy at all Canwest broadcast properties, including Global Television and the former Alliance Atlantis channels. At Rogers he will work under Claude Galipeau, currently SVP of digital media at Rogers Media. Both executives worked together at the former AAC and the CBC in digital posts.

Galipeau jumped to Rogers in December, ending a short stint at Astral Media.