The BBC has finally appointed a new digital media director to run BBC Online, BBC iPlayer, BBC Mobile and BBC Red Button .

Ralph Rivera moves from New York and from being online president of Major League Gaming, previously he had been head of games at AOL for 10 years.

He will report to the BBC’s future media and technology director Erik Huggers. Starting November 8th, Rivera will effectively be the BBC’s top online head apart from Huggers and, per the restructure, will have four general managers.

Other posts by :

1. Hughes Satellite facing cash crunch
2. Major banks support AST SpaceMobile
3. Fitch downgrades DirecTV debt
4. BBC: You’ll miss me when I’m gone
5. Some new US Starlink subs face $1,000 start-up fee
6. Project Kuiper beating OneWeb
7. OQ Tech gets Luxembourg 5G-by-Sat concession
8. Roskosmos: Heads roll, launch project scrapped
9. MDA under pressure over satellite order

Categories: Articles, People