ABS-CBN Corp. said Friday it appointed Cory Vidanes as chief operating officer effective Feb. 1, 2016.
Vidanes replaced Carlo Katigbak who was earlier named president and chief executive of the company.
Vidanes will lead and oversee the total channel programming, artist development, on-air operations, events management and overall revenue and profit delivery of Channel 2.
Together with the content development council headed by chief content officer Charo Santos-Concio, Vidanes will manage the development of new concepts for Channel 2 and the ABS-CBN TVplus channels Yey, CineMo and Knowledge Channel.
Vidanes began her career in television with BBC-2 in 1982. She joined ABS-CBN in 1986 as associate producer and was later appointed to various positions in the company, including executive producer, assistant production manager, production manager, production director, head of TV production, Channel 2 head, head of broadcast and finally, head of free TV.
Vidanes completed an Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School in 2014. She graduated from Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in Communication Arts.
Earlier, ABS-CBN appointed Carlo Katigbak as the new president and chief executive starting January this year, replacing Concio.
Katigbak has 20 years of combined experience in financial management and business operations, corporate planning and general management.
Prior to his appointment as chief operating officer (of ABS-CBN in March 2015, Katigbak was the head of Access.
Katigbank helped pave the company’s expansion into promising technologies and ventures and managed the operations of Sky Cable, ABS-CBNmobile and ABS-CBN TVplus.
ABS-CBN earlier reported a net income of P1.89 billion in the January to September period last year from P1.54 billion a year ago.
ABS-CBN’s consolidated revenues in the first nine months of 2015 rose 11 percent to P27.8 billion from P25.06 billion in 2014.
