Roger Mosey, the BBC’s editorial director and former Olympics overseer, is leaving the corporation to become master of Selwyn College in Cambridge. It is only two months since Mosey was appointed the BBC’s editorial director, a “troubleshooter” role reporting to the recently appointed director general, Tony Hall. Mosey, who oversaw the BBC’s acclaimed coverage of […]
Brian Krzanich, a 30 year company veteran and new CEO at Intel, is cautious about its foray into TV. Under previous CEO Paul Otellini, Intel embarked on a plan to launch an Internet television service with live and on-demand content, entering a hotly competitive race outside its core chip business. While Intel has said it […]
ESTV has appointed Formula One Management’s Technology Strategist as Technology Director for its London Live channel. Balcombe will be responsible for building pioneering technology that will support London Live’s cross-platform media initiatives. Balcombe, who started his career at Lotus, Bugatti and Fiat, has developed globally patented and replicated wireless systems for Formula 1 and has […]
Mobile visual discovery app, Blippar, has formed a partnership with Formula One driver Max Chilton. Blippar’s logo will be prominently displayed on the nose of Chilton’s Marussia F1 car at this weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone and for the rest of the Formula One season. In addition to featuring on the nose of Chilton’s […]
Action against the illegal downloading of content is now an “absolute priority” in order to protect the development of the audiovisual sector in Italy, according to the vice president of Sky Italia, Eric Gerritsen. In his speech to the Public Affairs Forum in Rome, he stressed that the “protection of copyright and intellectual property must […]
Following the abdication of Qatar’s ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani in favour of his son, Crown Prince Tamim,the director of Qatar-based network Al Jazeera, has resigned to take up a post in the Gulf state’s newly reshuffled Government. Ahmed bin Jassim al-Thani, said: “I leave Al Jazeera to answer another call, to serve my […]
Sky Deutschland says James Murdoch has “not been appointed head of our supervisory board”. Moreover the broadcaster says that current board chairman (News Corp’s Chase Carey) remains in post. A spokeswoman for Sky Deutschland admitted there had been market rumours, which as a public company they do not comment upon, and also argued that it […]
As expected, Charlotte Moore has been confirmed as the new controller of the BBC1. She had been interim controller of BBC1 since Danny Cohen was appointed director of television in April. Moore’s promotion to run the BBC’s flagship TV channel comes after two months of senior management reshuffles prompted by the arrival of Tony Hall […]
The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has a new Director as of the 1st of July. Dr. Susanne Nikoltchev, currently Head of the Observatory’s Department for Legal Information, was elected to the post of Executive Director by the Observatory’s Executive Council in its annual meeting. Nikoltchev, an international media […]
Italy’s prime minister Enrico Letta says that the public broadcaster RAI could be privatised. “The question of eventually privatising RAI is not part of the government programme presented, (but) we will discuss it, talk about it,” Letta told foreign journalists at a press conference in Rome. Currently, Italians pay an obligatory annual TV licence fee […]