Turner’s Spanish chief to head EMEA content operations

 

Turner’s General Manager in Spain Domingo Corral will now also head the broadcaster’s general entertainment content for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Corral will take on the role of Entertainment Content Chief for the EMEA region in addition to serving as SVP and GM of Turner’s operations in Spain.

The appointment is part ofTurner’s ambition to move into the general entertainment arena – an increasingly important market for the company and one in which significant progress has already been made through channel launches such as TNT, TCM, Silver and glitz and content initiatives such as truTV, TNT Mystery Movies and Falling Skies which is currently airing on Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) in the Middle East.

Corral, who is based in Madrid, will work closely with his counterparts in Turner’s Asia Pacific and Latin America businesses and with Turner US in developing original content, acquiring programming on an EMEA level and developing and producing/co-producing original series and programming for all the company’s general entertainment channels.

“Turner has a wide range of programming assets that go far beyond our traditional strengths in EMEA in news and kids,” says Turner EMEA president Jeff Kupsky.

“Domingo’s role will be to develop and harness these assets around our region, drawing upon our existing structure and expertise to give them a much sharper, more strategic focus.”

“I look forward to continuing our close partnership with our colleagues in the US and building on the recent success of Falling Skies,” says Domingo Corral.

“Ongoing expansion and consolidation through investment in original series will be key to our entertainment strategy.”