Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) The Americas unveiled a new management team at Telefe as Tomas Yankelevich has opted to leave his post as the company’s global content chief to pursue other opportunities, reports Variety.
Telefe will now be co-led by Guillermo Campanini as its Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Dario Turovelzky as the new Senior Vice President (SVP) of Global Content.
“The combination of [Campanini’s] robust trajectory in the commercialization and operations of channels alongside [Turovelzky’s] experience and innovation in production and programming will drive the growth of Telefe and our other brands in the country,” said VIMN Americas president Pierluigi Gazzolo.
A 20-year TV veteran within the industry and in Telefe, Campanini’s purview as COO will include ad sales, content distribution, news, management, corporate services, finance, technology and operations.
Turovelzky will oversee the programming and content development of Telefe and Viacom’s other brands in the Southern cone region, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and the Paramount Channel.
In a nod to Yankelevich, Gazzolo said: “[Yankelevich] has been key to the growth of Telefe over the past six years during which he put together a great team in the content división to spur Telefe to its position today.”
The new executive team also includes Paula Guerra, formerly a general manager at VIMN Argentina the past 10 years, who will handle content distributiion for all the Viacom brands as well as legal affairs, human resources, corporate relations, trade marketing and corporate communications.
Gustavo Capua will oversee the áreas of finance, technology, facilities and operations. Claudio Ipolitti remains as head of Telefe News and Fernando Varela expands his current responsibilities as Telefe’s Director of Legal Affairs to include Viacom Argentina.
Telefe boasts a 33% share of Argentina’s TV audiences and produces 3,000 hours of original programming per year. Its pay TV service, Telefe International, is currently present in 17 countries. It also owns 12 production studios and a library of 33,000 hours of content that is distributed in 100 countries and in 35 languages, operates eight regional channels across Argentina and runs streaming services that include a news operation and digital venture U-Play.
Telefe recently introduced a Nick Jr.-branded preschool programming block to its morning schedules.
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