TORONTO – The CBC has announced that Martin Markle is returning to the national public broadcaster as senior director of children's content, and Zach Feldberg will become executive in charge of production, digital originals.
Starting September 28, Markle will lead the Kids' CBC team where he will oversee the development and production of all children's content and help to grow CBC's multi-platform strategy as it relates to CBC's youngest viewers, reads the announcement.
"Martin's breadth of experience in both production and broadcast, his strong relationships with the independent community and his passion for children's programming make him an ideal candidate to oversee and evolve our children's content", said programming GM Sally Catto, in the announcement.
Feldberg will work with the scripted and unscripted teams on CBC's digital original strategy.
"Zach brings tremendous experience and a track-record of innovation to this position", added Catto. "Bringing Zach on board strengthens our commitment to offering Canadians exceptional digital original programming across all genres.”
