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  • Luis Silberwasser named as Warner Bros. Discovery Sports chairman & CEO

    Luis Silberwasser named as Warner Bros. Discovery Sports chairman & CEO

    Mumbai: Warner Bros. Discovery has appointed Luis Silberwasser as chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery Sports.

    In his new role, Silberwasser will lead the company’s US sports portfolio and oversee a unified, global sports strategy.  He will report to CEO David Zaslav.

    Silberwasser is a veteran media executive with decades of experience in worldwide content development and programming strategy. He most recently served as TelevisaUnivision US Networks Group president, where he led the growth of its broadcast and cable networks as well as the entertainment, news, and sports content and programming strategies.

    Earlier, Silberwasser spent 16 years at Discovery Communications, Inc., where he held several positions of increasing leadership responsibility, most recently as Discovery Networks International executive VP, chief content officer. In that role, Silberwasser was instrumental in building the company’s international business and its early focus on live content, including sports.

    “I have known Luis for many years and have tremendous respect for how hard he works, how collaborative he approaches the job, and his ability to build very successful global businesses and brands. I am thrilled to be working with him again, and believe Luis’ strong international business relationships, leadership track record and passion for delivering the best content and consumer experience make him the ideal leader to oversee the continued growth and expansion of our world-class sports business,” said David Zaslav.

    “I am delighted to join Warner Bros. Discovery during an exciting and innovative time especially for its newly integrated global sports business and the great team at the company which boasts some of the most compelling on-air talent, world class production values and the broadest media rights in the world. I truly feel like I am returning home under David’s dynamic and forward-thinking leadership and look forward to working with the global sports organization, our sports rights partners and the entire WBD company to deliver the most compelling and exciting sports programming to our fans and audiences worldwide,” said Silberwasser.

    Turner Sports president Lenny Daniels and WBD regional sports networks president Patrick Crumb will report to Silberwasser. WBD Sports Europe president, MD Andrew Georgiou will continue to report to president international Gerhard Zeiler.

  • Vice & Telemundo tie up, former also expanding to MENA & India

    MUMBAI: Times Network’s India partner Vice Media, a publishing and video site and Telemundo, a Spanish-language TV network, will be tying up to produce content for NBCUniversal’s two Spanish-language networks — Universo and Telemundo with the aim of tapping into the young generation in the U.S. Hispanic market. According to PEW research, 20% of the U.S. millennial population are Latinos.

    Vice Media has additional plans to expand to different languages. It soon wants to expand into Africa, India, and around 18 other southeast Asian countries.

    Vice Media, in March this year, made plans to start expanding into the Middle East. It hopes to launch a digital channel and a web site this summer, and, in all likelihood, a 24-hour regional cable channel, to produce lifestyle and news content for MENA (Middle-East and North Africa) region in English, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish and Urdu.

    Vice and Telemundo will be work in alliance to produce weekly documentary segments on topics such as sports, music, food and culture with the plan to telecast it on Telemundo News.

    The two will also jointly launch a weekly one-hour show for the Spanish-language entertainment cable network in the U.S. Universo which reaches over 40 million households. This will the first time that Vice would produce a show particularly aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market.

    Telemundo and Universo president Luis Silberwasser said that the innovative partnership would permit them to increase the appeal of their factual content to the millenials (Latinos) and for Vice to reach the growing U.S. Hispanic market.

    Vice Media in the U.S. and Mexico also plan to produce content for Telemundo’s digital and social platforms. Vice would eventually be present in around 50 countries.

  • Discovery sinks $500K into fund for new programming

    Discovery sinks $500K into fund for new programming

    MUMBAI: Silver Spring-based Discovery Channel US and Discovery Networks International are shelling out big dollars for producers to come up with new, cutting edge programming.

     

    The two have launched a $500,000 Global Landmark Development Fund, seeking groundbreaking programming ideas from producers around the world.

     

    “This is an exciting challenge for producers to bring us ideas as ambitious and innovative as ‘Planet Earth’ and ‘North America’,” said Luis Silberwasser, executive vice president and chief content officer, referring to two of its most successful programming series.

     

    “By working on a global scale, we have a unique opportunity to enlist the world’s best production companies to make their most ambitious ideas a reality.”

     

    ‘North America’, with episodes covering various geographical regions of the continent, is Discovery’s first independently-produced natural history series.