In its Annual General Meeting, the Board of the European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) has elected Michel de Rosen, CEO of Eutelsat, as its new Chairman of the Board. Dave McGlade, CEO of Intelsat, was re-elected first Vice-Chairman and Rupert Pearce, CEO of Inmarsat, was elected second Vice-Chairman. de Rosen succeeds Cato Halsaa, former CEO […]
James Murdoch has been appointed head of Sky Deutschland’s supervisory board. However, the publicly quoted company’s shareholders didn’t much care for the announcement. Murdoch is already a board member at the broadcaster (appointed in April), but his new appointment sees the departure of Chase Carey (COO at News Corp) who has held the position since […]
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, a co-founder of notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, has been sentenced to two years in jail after hacking into Swedish government computers and making illegal online bank transfers. The charges against the 28-year-old Warg included aggravated fraud, attempted aggravated fraud and data breaching. Warg was arrested in Sweden last year after […]
Sky Italia has consolidated its programming structure into a single group led by Andrea Scrosati who has been appointed Executive Vice President Programming. Scrosati will lead Cinema, Entertainment, Partner Channels and Sky TG24. Sport content will remain a separate group. This structure follows a model already adopted by News Corp in the UK and in […]
BT CEO Ian Livingston is stepping down to become the UK government’s Minister of State for Trade and Investment. Gavin Patterson, currently CEO of BT Retail, will succeed Livingston as group CEO. Livingston has served as CEO for five years, having replaced Ben Verwaayen in June 2008. He will join the House of Lords prior […]
Sky Italia has appointed Delia Bushell as chief commercial officer. In her new role, Bushell will lead the marketing and sales department. Bushell has been Sky Italia’s chief strategy and commercial initiatives officer since 2012. She spent twelve years at BSkyB beforehand where she held various positions, and was also MD of BSkyB Ireland.
Markus Fritz has joined Eulesat as Director of Commercial Development and Marketing, reporting to Jean-Francois Leprince-Ringuet, the Group’s Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, Fritz is responsible for further developing Eutelsat’s commercial strategy internationally, including market development and research, business intelligence, product management and pricing as well as marketing communications. He is also responsible for […]
Technicolor, a worldwide technology specialist in the media and entertainment sector, announces has appointed Boris Teksler as President of its Technology Group which includes Intellectual Property & Licensing and the company’s world class Research & Innovation activities. Teksler, most recently spent four years at Apple as head of Patent Licensing & Strategy. Prior to Apple, […]
Romain Bausch is to leave his president/CE position at SES next April. Bausch turns 60 next month and has been in position since 1995. He will remain a main board director at SES. His successor will be Karim Michel Sabbagh (49) and he will take over next April although will take up the ‘CEO Designate’ […]
David Scott, Chief Executive of Digital UK, has been awarded a knighthood for services to digital switchover in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Saying he was “honoured” to receive the recognition, Scott added that delivering switchover required the collaboration of many individuals and organisations, all of whom deserved to share in the credit. Before becoming Chief […]