Patricia Hidalgo has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Content & Creative Officer Kids for Turner Broadcasting System EMEA. Hidalgo will head Turners portfolio of kids content and channel brands in Europe, Middle East and Africa. She will oversee all centrally-funded programmingsuch as acquisitions, co-productions, originals channel branding; franchise and research initiatives; and […]
Patricia Hidalgo has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Content & Creative Officer Kids for Turner Broadcasting System EMEA.
Hidalgo will head Turners portfolio of kids content and channel brands in Europe, Middle East and Africa. She will oversee all centrally-funded programmingsuch as acquisitions, co-productions, originals channel branding; franchise and research initiatives; and editorial compliance across multiple platforms and formats.
She was formerly VP Content & Programming Strategy for The Walt Disney Company EMEA.
We are delighted that Patricia is joining us and look forward to the leadership and wealth of creative experience she will bring to a role that sits at the very heart of our kids business, commented Peter
Flamman, SVP & COO, EMEA and MD Kids EMEA to whom Hidalgo will report.
We are particularly impressed by her superb track record of collaborating with diverse local market teams within a global, franchise-led, content-centric organisation. That fits perfectly with Turners philosophy going forward and will allow us to capitalise upon our strong original content slate including new seasons of Adventure Time and Regular Show from our US studios and Gumball and LazyTown from EMEA.
