Pepe Bastón, president of Television and Content for Grupo Televisa and David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery Communications
Univision Communications Inc., announced that David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications, and José Pepe Bastón Patiño, president of Television and Content for Grupo Televisa, have been elected to its Board of Directors. Davids years of success in building TV channels and Josés deep familiarity with Spanish-language media make them natural and valuable additions. We look forward to adding their perspectives to our diverse, robust team as we continue to focus on growing and strengthening Univisions business to keep pace with the rapidly expanding U.S. Hispanic population,said Haim Saban, chairman of Univision Communications. Bastón has served as president of Television and Content of Grupo Televisa since December 2008. He has also been a member of the Grupo Televisa Board of Directors since April 1999 and is a member of its Executive Committee. Since January 2007, Zaslav has served as president and CEO of Discovery Communications. Previously, Zaslav had a distinguished career of almost 20 years at NBC Universal.