Olivia King Canter joins Entertainment Rights Plc. as director of sales for Latin America and Canada. She will be responsible for driving ERs business in these key territories and will be based in ERs New York City office.
King Canter report to Kathleen Hricik, evp/md of the United States of America, Canada and Latin America, as well as heads up ERs U.S. operations.
A 20-year vet in licensing properties worldwide, King Canter was director of the Havana Music Co., managing all aspects related to music for a Canadian audio-visual production company.
In the television industry she's held a variety of roles, including svp, international television at WarnerVision, where she was charged with developing and implementing a worldwide strategy for WarnerVision programming. At MTV Networks she was vp of international programming sales.
We are delighted to welcome someone of Olivias caliber to Entertainment Rights and we are certain she will be instrumental in driving our business in these key territories," said Hricik. "We look forward to benefiting from Olivias wealth of experience.
ER (www.entertainmentrights.com) is one of the U.K.'s leading specialist media groups focused on the ownership of high quality children's and family programming, characters and brands. Since 1999, when ER owned rights to just 50 hours of programming, ERs library has grown to circa 2,000 hours of high quality childrens and family characters and brands, including Basil Brush, Postman Pat, Jess the Cat, Little Red Tractor, Rupert Bear, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Fat Albert and the Cosby kids, She-Ra, Ghostbusters and Jim Jam & Sunny.This includes certain rights to global brands, such as Mattel's Barbie, Scholastic's Clifford, Hasbro's Transformers, Casper the Friendly Ghost and Felix the Cat. ERs wholly owned subsidiary Tell-Tale Prods., created and produced THE TWEENIES, one of the U.K.s most successful pre-school brands.
