Laura Fernández Espeso, a significant driver of Grup Mediapro dramatic worldwide growth over the past decade, is leaving the corporate the place she took up the submit of its basic supervisor in January 2025.
Fernández Espeso’s departure is known to be amicable, and is a part of a extra basic managerial restructuring at Grup Mediapro.
Becoming a member of the Mediapro-owned Globomedia in 2009, Fernández Espeso, one in every of only a handful of executives in Spain with actual TV work expertise overseas, was named Grup Mediapro’s director of worldwide content material in 2015, simply as worldwide’s TV high-end drama revolution started to elevate off, driving Grup Mediapro’s growth overseas.
Appointed company and TV director at The Mediapro Studio, housing Mediapro’s content material enterprise, which launched 2019, she turned its CEO a 12 months later.
Below Fernández Espeso, The Mediapro Studio drove exhausting into top-notch artistic expertise, tapping Israel’s Ran Tellem, a primetime Emmy Award-winning govt producer on “Homeland,” and a 12 months later Daniel Burman, a number one mild of the New Argentine Cinema, shopping for into his label Oficina Burman, in Buenos Aires.
Additional strikes have included the launch of j.v Moonlyon with Penelope Cruz, the acquisition of Latin American companies and manufacturing firm Cimarrón, and backing for Erik Barmack’s L.A.-based Wild Sheep Content material.
Mediapro has additionally proved a pioneering power in worldwide TV alliances, co-producing or linking to main broadcasters and studios on a rating and extra of collection, on Wildside’s “The Younger Pope” and “The New Pope” with Sky and HBO, the primary additionally with Canal+; with Viacom (“Victoria Small”) on 4 collection, Prime Video (“The Boarding Faculty: Las Cumbres”) and Hulu Japan (“The Head”).
Sony Photos Tv (“Implacables: Mexico”), Lionsgate+ (“Specific), Warner Bros. Discovery (“Las Bravas”), BBC Studios and ZDF (“The Well-known 5”), Movistar Plus+ (“Celeste”) and TelevisaUnivision’s ViX (“Las Pelotaris”) have been additional co-production companions, when Fernández Espeso served at The Mediapro Studio.
By the point Fernández Espeso was chosen as Selection’s Worldwide Media Girl of the Yr in March 2024, The Mediapro Studio was one of many largest production-distribution world powerhouses primarily based out of Southern Europe with an H.Q. in Madrid and 53 workplaces unfold around the globe.
In Might 2024 it introduced new U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles to double down on U.S. and English-language manufacturing for the U.S. and world market, beneath “J.C.” Acosta.
At The Mediapro Studio, Fernández Espeso was in her factor: Content material creation in a globalized context is her ardour.
Below the bulk possession of Southwind Group, which homes China’s Hontai Capital, Grup Mediapro’s primary problem presently, the lack of a keystone contract to provide and transmit soccer video games with La Liga, is of one other order.
Hontai Capital has appointed Sergio Oslé, ex-president of Movistar Plus+, who laid lots of the foundations of its present subscriber resilience, similar to a lower-cost SVOD supply, as Grup Mediapro’s new president from Jan. 2026. A detailed ally of Javier Tebas when at Movistar Plus+, Oslé labored hand in hand to modernize soccer broadcasts in Spain.
Fernández Espeso’s subsequent appointment is unknown, however is unlikely to take her removed from worldwide content material creation.
