Everyone still wants to be on TV (Tonia O'Connor, chief revenue officer, Univision)
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That's me. I'm part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. But enough about me, you've heard plenty about me. Today, you're going to hear from my boss, Ed Lee. He's Recode's managing editor. He recently talked to Univision executive Tanya O'Connor. She's going to explain how TV works today and how that might change very soon. Let's take a listen. |
| 0:22.0 | Thanks, Peter. I'm here with Univision Chief Revenue Officer Tanya O'Connor. Tanya, welcome. |
| 0:27.7 | Hi, thank you. Chief Revenue Officer, it's actually a new title for you. You got a nice |
| 0:31.9 | bump up, right? It was like a week or so ago that you got this new gig gig? It was on Tuesday. Wow. Okay. So |
| 0:39.3 | congrats. What does that mean, chief revenue officer? What is, what are you in charge of now? |
| 0:43.4 | That means that I'm overseeing all of the revenue of Univision Communications Inc., which includes |
| 0:49.1 | advertising revenue across all of our platforms, linear television, digital, as well as our distribution |
| 0:56.6 | revenue. |
| 0:57.5 | The stuff basically when you're selling the feed to the cable and the other distributors, |
| 1:02.8 | right? |
| 1:03.7 | That's right. |
| 1:04.6 | So we distribute our linear networks to cable and satellite operators as well as some of |
| 1:10.6 | the new emerging platforms. |
| 1:12.1 | We also sell our content to S-Vod providers like Netflix. |
| 1:16.7 | And Facebook, we recently did a deal for Liga MX with Facebook. |
| 1:23.3 | That's the Mexican soccer football. |
| 1:25.9 | Correct, correct, which happens to be the most watched soccer in all of the U.S. in case you didn't know that. |
| 1:33.0 | Well, it stands to reason, right, because U.S. soccer isn't that great. |
| 1:37.1 | Oh, it's great. It's great. It just so happens that League of MX has more viewership. |
| 1:41.3 | So basically you are in charge of all the revenue, which could we say that you basically |
| 1:46.3 | run the business now? |
| 1:47.6 | You run the company? |
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