Warner Bros Discovery has announced its leadership for Japan and Australia & New Zealand [ANZ] and INSEAK region, The Japan and ANZ teams will report to James Gibbons, President & Managing Director, Japan & ANZ, Warner Bros Discovery, whilst the INSEAK team will be led by Clement Schwebig, who will serve as president and MD […]
Liberty Global has appointed senior technology executive Madalina Suceveanu to the newly-established role of Managing Director, Mobile & Cloud Technology, reporting into Liberty Global Chief Technology Officer Enrique Rodriguez. In addition, she has also been appointed to Telenet’s Board of Directors. In the new role, Suceveanu will be responsible for developing Liberty Global’s technology strategy […]
The funding of TV of all kinds is under the microscope just now. For example; can public broadcasters justify collecting a tax from whole populations? Or, dare SVoDs run ads, or cut-off password sharers? Tricky. The BBC is the most-high profile of PSBs and, therefore, the alternative that does (or does not) emerge to the […]
Plume, the personalised communications services pioneer, has appointed Magdalena Yesil, Founding Board Member of Salesforce, Roxanne Oulman, former Executive Vice President and CFO at Medallia and Tony Werner, former CTO at Comcast, as independent directors to its board. “As a founder and entrepreneur, I not only look for great technology that customers love, and a […]
Sky Studios, Sky’s original programming arm across Europe, has announced the appointment of Meghan Lyvers to the role of Director of Original Drama, UK & Ireland. In this newly created role, Lyvers will oversee a diverse slate of premium Sky Original dramas for Sky’s customers in the UK and Ireland and joins Sky Studios at […]
ITV Commercial has announced the appointment of marketing and media expert Mike Liall as Client Strategy & Planning Controller across ITV’s nine regional teams. Liall joins ITV with 15 years’ experience in marketing and media strategy across Dentsu North, Mediacom North and most recently McCann Manchester, working across a wide range of sectors and clients. […]
Blu Digital Group (BDG), a media and entertainment technology company, has announced the appointment of Tony Rizkallah as Chief Operations Officer, responsible for the operations and increased automation of business processes of Blu Digital Group. Rizkallah spent 15 years building and running digital media management facility Bitmax, where he was responsible for the technology and […]
Jesse Norman MP, a former government minister and Chair of the UK parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee in 2015-16, has criticised the proposed privatisation of publicly-owned broadcaster Channel 4. In a letter expressing no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he said: “Privatisation of Channel 4 is an unnecessary and provocative attempt to address […]
Jan Frelek has been nominated to the Board of Redge Technologies. As board member he is responsible for marketing, sales and business development of the company. Redge Technologies delivers Redge Media – the leading OTT platform in CEE which powers a.o. TVN Warner Discovery player.pl, Illiad Play NOW, RASP VOD.PL, Canal+ Premiery and Go3 in […]
Sheikha Al Zain Al Sabah and Elie Habib have joined Dubai-based OSN under the leadership of KIPCO’s Sheikha Dana Al Sabah. The board also includes Michael Johnson from junior partner Mawarid Holding Co as well as OSN’s newly appointed CEO Joe Kawkabani. Sheikha Dana Al Sabah, Chairperson of the Board commented that the “deep experience […]