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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Nicolás Albistur - DIRECTV Programming and Content VP

Nicolás Albistur - Credit: DIRECTV
Nicolás Albistur - Credit: DIRECTV

The executive joined DIRECTV in 2003 as Product Manager in the Marketing area, since he worked for two years, but since 2012 he served as Marketing and Programming Director for Argentina. He then extended his responsibilities to the South region and subsequently to DIRECTV Latin America and relaunched the DIRECTV Sports sports signal complementing it with the acquisition of new rights and local content.

He has a degree in Business Economics from the Torcuato Di Tella University. Prior to joining DIRECTV, he worked in the development of Sales in the Carrefour retail chain.

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