Cosme Lopez
Venezuelan group Cisneros Media has promoted Cosme Lopez to oversee its worldwide pay TV operations.
Lopez will be senior VP and general manager of pay TV channels and services, effective immediately, working out of Cisneros’ Miami base and reporting to executive VP, content distribution Marcello Coltro.
He joined Cisneros in 2000 as general manager of cable network Cisneros Continental and went on to establish channels such as Venevision Plus, VmasTV and VePlusTV and expanding Cisneros business in Latin America and the Caribbean.
His new duties include overseeing Cisneros’ multiplatform pay TV business and overseeing telenovela OTT cahnnel Romanza+Africa, which is run in conjuction with Mexico’s Azteca and XP Africa.
“Cosme has done a remarkable job managing the daily operations and distribution of our linear channels, joint ventures and Pay-TV services throughout Latin America,” said Marcello Coltro, who took on his post earlier this year.
Cisneros’ long-serving distribution chief Cesar Diaz exited the operation last month, as TBI revealed at the time. Coltro is now in charge of all distribution operations.
ICYMI: T-Mobile launches internet TV service in US digitaltveurope.com/2020/10/28/t-m… https://t.co/YOts1Oln6Y
28 October 2020 @ 21:00:00 UTC
ICYMI: @hbomax to add #podcasts and short-form content to mobile app with ad-supported tier on the way… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
28 October 2020 @ 20:00:00 UTC
ICYMI: @dazngroup sets international launch date and price point digitaltveurope.com/2020/10/28/daz… https://t.co/0yt5DsrHHc
28 October 2020 @ 19:00:00 UTC
.@netflix reveals new-look US & international teams under Bela Bajaria digitaltveurope.com/2020/10/28/net… https://t.co/HASWXLC7Au
28 October 2020 @ 18:30:00 UTC
Magenta Telekom partners with Whip Media for VOD management digitaltveurope.com/2020/10/28/mag… https://t.co/vALqSJXdVc
28 October 2020 @ 18:00:00 UTC
