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Ex-Disney Exec Carolina Lightcap Joins Discovery Networks Latin America

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 12, 2012 @ 1:50pm PDTTags: Carolina Lightcap

Lightcap will take over as Head of Content for DLA/US Hispanic and General Manager for the Southern Cone on August 13. She’ll be based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and will report to Enrique R. Martínez, President and Managing Director for DLA/USH. Discovery says Lightcap will head all areas within DLA/USH related to content, including Programming, Marketing, Program Publicity and On-Air Promotions, as well as implement the company’s content initiatives in the region.  In her role as General Manager for the Southern Cone, Lightcap will be responsible for overseeing Discovery’s business in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay. She will also be responsible for developing new business initiatives and opportunities for the portfolio in the region. Lightcap previously served as President of Disney Channels Worldwide. She stepped down from that position last year. Before that, she was Chief Marketing Officer for Disney, Latin America and Senior VP, Programming and Creative Affairs at Disney Channels Latin America.

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Carolina Lightcap Resigns As Disney Channels Worldwide President, Gary Marsh Adds President Title

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 15, 2011 @ 12:12pm PDTTags: Anne Sweeney, Carolina Lightcap, Disney Channels Worldwide
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EXCLUSIVE: Carolina Lightcap has stepped down as president of Disney Channels Worldwide after two years on the job. The channels’ president, Entertainment and Chief Creative Officer Gary Marsh will add her responsibilities to his current ones. His new title will be president and Chief Creative Officer, Disney Channels Worldwide. In his new expanded role, Marsh will have full creative oversight and leadership responsibility for Disney’s global kids TV business comprised of more than 100 entertainment channels and feeds that are available in 169 countries and 35 languages. “We’re sorry that Carolina has decided to leave us and appreciate her many valuable contributions over the years,” said Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks & President, Disney/ABC Television Group. “Gary Marsh has been the driving creative force behind Disney Channels’ remarkable growth for the past 15 plus years, responsible for some of the most iconic and successful franchises in our history including Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, High School Musical, Phineas and Ferb, That’s So Raven, Shake It Up and many others. He not only understands the zeitgeist of kids’ culture, he helped create it.  Our business couldn’t be in better hands.” Read More »

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TV Academy Foundation Adds 2 To Board

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 11:01am PDTTags: Board of Directors, Carolina Lightcap

Disney Channels Worldwide president Carolina Lightcap and Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media exec director Madeline Di Nonno have been elected to serve two-year terms on the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation’s board of directors, the group announced … Read More »

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Michael Riley Named ABC Family President

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 30, 2010 @ 2:48pm PDTTags: ABC Family, Anne Sweeney, Carolina Lightcap, Michael Riley ABC Family, Paul Lee
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Disney/ABC TV Group president Anne Sweeney once again looked within the company to replace outgoing ABC Family president Paul Lee. A month after tapping Lee to take over ABC and ABC Studios as president of ABC Entertainment Group, she has picked Radio Disney GM Michael Riley as the new president of ABC Family. In addition to Lee’s promotion, Sweeney previously recruited a veteran Disney TV executive, Carolina Lightcap, to succeed Rich Ross as head of Disney Channels Worldwide. Just like Lightcap, Riley does not have domestic cable TV experience but he worked in Turner Broadcasting’s international divisions. I hear Riley impressed Disney/ABC brass with his accomplishments at Turner. Considered a future star executive, he was brought into the company fold and given the job that was available at the moment, heading Disney Radio, with the idea that he would eventually be moved to another position. Sweeney reportedly interviewed both internal and external candidates for the top ABC Family job but Riley’s background and his successful run at Disney radio ultimately sealed the deal for him.”He has good business and creative sense, and he is good at building and shepherding brands,” one insider said. Here is the official announcement: Read More »

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The Network Builder: Former War Reporter Paul Lee Goes For a Three-peat At ABC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 11:40pm PDTTags: ABC Family Paul Lee, Carolina Lightcap, Networks, Paul Lee, Paul Lee ABC Entertainment, Paul Lee Background, Rich Ross Walt Disney Studios
Nellie Andreeva

There is one element in Paul Lee’s background that in my opinion makes him well equipped for his new job as ABC Entertainment Group president. It’s not his 6-year tenure as president of ABC Family, he will find soon enough … Read More »

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