International media veteran Catherine Fink has become the head of public broadcaster SBS Television in her native Australia.
He replaces Marshall Hilde, who left at the end of 2021 and became the COO of Foxtel, leader of local pay TV.
Fink has over 30 years of industry experience in areas such as Los Angeles, New York and Hong Kong, having worked for the Walt Disney Company, Sky Italia, where he was responsible for launching the market drama. criminal noveland News Corp.
Most recently, he was General Manager of Disney Media in Italy, responsible for Disney +, pay TV channels, original content production and content sales. He left in 2021.
He will join SBS on 4 July and take on a programming strategy of a public broadcaster that, unlike the more general ABC, has specific powers based on the distribution of multilingual and multicultural content.
Says James Taylor, CEO of SBS: “Catherine has experience working in many continents, including the Americas, Asia and Europe, and in all aspects of the global television and television space, before producing content. She operations and distribution and entertainment, in arts, factual and sports programs.
“It also shares a passion for the distinctive content that defines SBS, which is based on the SBS paper,” he said. “Among the outstanding programming that has been commissioned criminal novelA detective series that was the catalyst for change in the Italian television industry, ignorant fate which has just won the Nastro D’Argento for the best series e Where are youA National Geographic documentary showing the stories of the people behind a migrant boat that landed off the Italian coast.
“I feel very privileged to be able to be part of an organization like SBS,” said Fink. “I am thrilled to work with a talented and dedicated team to continue to deliver innovative, world-class content that explores, challenges and celebrates modern Australia with the country’s most distinctive cross-platform offerings.
Fink, bilingual in English and Italian, was CEO of Fox Networks Group Italia and played a key role in the launch of Sky Italia in 2003. He remained with the company for eight years, most of which as programming manager. He has just been appointed independent director of Juventus Football Club, listed on the Milan stock exchange.
Source: Deadline
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