Warner Bros Discovery Names Luis Silberwasser As Head Of Sports

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Warner Bros. Discovery has named Luis Silberwasser, a former exec at Discovery, Telemundo and most recently TelevisaUnivision, as chairman and CEO of its sports division.Reporting to CEO David Zaslav, Silberwasser will lead the company’s domestic sports portfolio and oversee a unified, global sports strategy.

The newly merged company brings together Discovery’s sports operation outside of the U.S. and assets like Eurosport with the domestic portfolio including Turner Sports and digital brand Bleacher Report.

Along with the Olympics, the company has rights to the NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.Silberwasser is segueing from his position as president of TelevisaUnivision.

From 2014 to 2018, he was head of Telemundo Networks.A number of executives were considered for the position in recent months, but one aspect of Silberwasser’s background that likely appealed to Zaslav was familiarity.