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Enrique Bertran

Director, Production,

Telemundo Deportes

As Production Director, my role for the Olympics will be
comprised of multiple tasks! One of my main duties will
be to manage the content for Telemundo’s afternoon
block of the weekday Olympic programming, hosted
by Jessica Carrillo and Karim Mendiburu. The show will
be a combination of Olympic events, news, social
content and lifestyle stories, coming straight from
Tokyo. Additionally, I’ll be overseeing the production
of our daily live social “Titulares y Más” franchise and
our “TYM Olímpico” segments scheduled for publishing
on Peacock. On the weekends, my team will also help
produce the long blocks of Olympic programming on
Telemundo and Universo.
While coverage of the Games is complex

My job requires many meetings with different teams, to plan and execute, it is an extremely
such as Sales, Graphics, Tech Production and more, to rewarding event to watch unfold. A lot of
make sure everything goes as planned. Collectively, planning and collaborating goes into the
we have many years of experience producing production, so we always hope our
Spanish-language Olympics coverage, so much of the audience appreciates the effort!
process is taking learnings from previous Olympics
and applying them to our current plan. This is the 5th Olympics Jam: “Olympic Fanfare”
Summer Olympic games I am part of (my first during by John Williams
the pre-HD days of Athens 2004), and it is by far my
favorite event to work.