César Conde, president of NBCUniversal News Group, has announced in a statement the appointment of Spaniard Luis Fernández, 65, as executive president of NBCUniversal. Telemundo Enterprises. Fernández, a journalist and executive with a long history in the media, replaces Beau Ferrari, who held the position for the last three years and becomes an advisor to Conde for strategic growth opportunities.
Fernández returns to Telemundo, where he was between 2016 and 2021 and presided over the news division until he announced his retirement almost two years ago. The executive, who held management positions at Canal +, Telecinco, Cadena SER, Radio EL PAÍS and Cadena COPE, was president of the Spanish Radio Television Corporation (RTVE) between 2006 and 2009. He was also president of Univision Entertainment and Univision Studios between 2009 and 2013 and CEO of Real Madrid’s international business in Asia Pacific, based in Beijing, between 2014 and 2016.
“Throughout his extraordinary career, Luis has time and again demonstrated visionary leadership, building and growing the most successful Spanish-language media organizations in the United States and abroad,” Conde said in the statement. “At this time in Telemundo’s history, we are very fortunate to have someone of Luis’s experience and stature rejoin our team and we are excited about what the future holds for Telemundo and its audiences under his leadership.”
Fernández noted that it was an honor to return to Telemundo “at such an exciting time for the company and its audience,” according to the chain’s note. “As our communities play an increasingly important role in our country’s culture, politics, sports and commerce, our time has come to meet the moment,” he said.
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises is a division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of the giant Comcast Corporation, which has a value close to 170 billion dollars (more than 150 billion euros) on the stock market. NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises is the group’s communications company focused on the United States Hispanic market through its television network, the Universo cable network and digital platforms that include the Telemundo application and streaming services. streaming, like Peacock, among others. The Telemundo network offers entertainment, news and sports content in Spanish that reaches 95% of Hispanic households in the United States in 210 markets, through 30 owned stations and 61 affiliated stations, according to the company.
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