SES has released the results of its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on April 3rd. All of the motions were carried, but there were some notable objections which while not affecting the end result proved that not all of the proposed motions were 100 per cent supported. For example, Agenda item 10 (“Determination of the […]
Prime Video has expanded Kelly Day’s role following the recent surprise departure of Jennifer Salke. Day, who joined Prime Video in 2022, will take on Prime Video’s international originals, in addition to her current duties as VP of Prime Video International. The division was previously led by James Farrell who also recently departed the company, […]
Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has announced that Sam Barnett, the current CEO of MBC, has been appointed as CME’s Chief Executive Officer, effective May 1st. Mike Sneesby will replace Barnett at MBC. “I’m very happy to welcome Sam to CME. After conducting a thorough succession process, we are confident that Sam’s global expertise and […]
Ahead of Viaplay Group’s Annual General Meeting on May 13th, the Viaplay Group Nomination Committee has proposed the re-election of Andrea Gisle Joosen, Erik Forsberg, Katarina Bonde, Maxime Saada, Jacques du Puy, Anna Bäck, Didier Stoessel, and Annica Witschard as members of the Board of Directors, and the re-election of Simon Duffy (pictured) as Chair […]
Gwynne Shotwell has been with SpaceX for the past 23 years, and became president and chief operating officer in 2008. She also holds a 0.3 per cent stake in the company. She was SpaceX’s employee number 11 and the shareholding has been largely accumulated through stock compensation awards. Forbes magazine says that her shareholding is […]
Due to antitrust concerns raised by the Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC), the targeted advertising platform Playce will be suspended from May 1st. This platform – used by major telecom operators including Meo, Nos and Vodafone – allowed for non-skippable pre-roll 30-second ads to play on set-top boxes before recorded TV programmes. The AdC initiated proceedings […]
Germany is paying for extra satellite coverage over Ukraine by securing capacity on Eutelsat. Reportedly, this has been going on quietly behind the scenes for almost a year, designed to secure extra bandwidth for Ukraine’s military as an alternate to Elon Musk’s Starlink system. According to a Reuters report, Eutelsat’s CEO, Eva Berneke, revealed that […]
The UK government is reportedly closing in on a deal to secure a theme park investment from Comcast to build what they say could be the biggest theme park in Europe in a disused Bedford brickworks. Comcast unit Universal is close to agreeing terms on the project to develop 500 acres of industrial land according […]
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE Supervisory Board has announced that Maria Kyriacou will be proposed as a candidate for election to the company’s Supervisory Board at the upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) on May 28th, alongside Dr Katrin Burkhardt and Simone Scettri who are up for re-election. If elected, Kyriacou is also standing for appointment by the […]
In an April 4th public note the FCC’s recently appointed chair Brendan Carr listed a number of tasks on his desk for action, not least the FCC’s current ‘foreign ownership rules’. He said: “Over the years, those regulations have increased almost as quickly as interest in the Heard and McDonald Islands. But in many cases, […]