In one in all his first massive strikes as chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, Luis Fernandez has restructured Telemundo Studios, selling Ronald Day and putting in veteran exec Javier Pons in a key function.
Day has been upped to President, Leisure and Chief Content material Officer and can proceed to report back to Fernandez. Pons, who has many years of manufacturing and administration expertise at main media firms in Spain, Mexico and France, has been named EVP of the studio arm.
The restructuring streamlines all scripted content material manufacturing underneath the Telemundo Studios umbrella. Day will increase his obligations past the community’s leisure programming and unscripted content material. His new portfolio may also embody Telemundo Studios, comprising the event and manufacturing of all scripted content material for linear in addition to owned and third-party streaming platforms. Pons, in his newly created function, will likely be liable for all scripted productions for the Telemundo community and streaming platforms, reporting to Day.
“With this streamlined construction, we’re doubling down on our dedication to serve the Latino neighborhood with the most effective scripted content material throughout all platforms for years to return,” Fernandez stated.
Day, he added, “has been key in propelling Telemundo to the highest with revolutionary leisure codecs and I’m sure that on this new function he’ll additional solidify our management place amongst Latino audiences throughout all screens.”
Day’s prior submit was President of Leisure and Content material Technique, the place he oversaw the community’s content material technique with a concentrate on every day leisure and in collaboration with Telemundo International Studios, Information and Sports activities. As an government with greater than three many years of expertise in Hispanic leisure, he joined Telemundo in 2018 after holding a number of posts at rival Univision.
Pons was beforehand Basic Director of Globomedia, one of many prime manufacturing firms in Spain, and Head of TV at The Mediapro Studio. He additionally labored in Mexico as President of the manufacturing firm On Demand and as Government Producer at Estudios Azteca.