ThinkAnalytics, the TV search and recommendations engine, has announced that Michael Pohl has joined the company as a Member of the Corporate Board of Directors and Strategic Director for Marketing and Business Development, Americas. The news was accompanied by the appointment of Nancy Pingitore as Vice President of Sales. Pohl will focus on marketing and […]
Intelsat, a global provider of satellite services, has announced a number of executive appointments. The Board of Directors has elected Dave McGlade, currently Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, to the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1st 2013. McGlade has served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer for eight years. McGlade […]
Sky Deutschland is asking shareholders to appoint James Murdoch to its supervisory board. News Corp owns 54.8 per cent of the German pay-TV broadcaster. The expectation is that James Murdoch will simply join the board, and not become Chairman. James Murdoch is on the board of BSkyB, although resigned as Chairman in April last year […]
Sony’s chairman Sir Howard Stringer is to leave the media-to-electronics giant this June. He was CEO and president from 2005, and stepped aside from those roles last April following a period of disastrous losses. Kazuo Hirai is now running the business, and attempting to restructure the company and re-establish its once important position. Hirai is […]
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Bernie Han has assumed increased leadership responsibilities at US pay TV provider DISH. Han will oversee all direct and indirect sales and distribution, in addition to his current responsibilities managing operations, information technologies, customer service, customer retention and corporate initiatives. Dave Shull, who has overseen DISH’s programming and […]
Georgette Schlick, CEO of Dutch broadcasting company SBS, is standing down after 15 months in the role. Schlick joined the company in October 2011 after the three SBS channels in the Netherlands – SBS6, Net 5 and Veronica – were bought out by Finnish firm Sanoma Media and Dutch production company Talpa. She will be […]
The Supervisory Board of Ziggo has revealed it intends to appoint René Obermann as the new CEO of Ziggo effective January 2014. Obermann is currently CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG. This planned transition coincides with the retirement of the current CEO, Bernard Dijkhuizen in January 2014. Andy Sukawaty, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, commented: “We […]
Murali Nemani, a highly-regarded strategist who has led key market initiatives for Cisco Systems and Alcatel-Lucent, has joined ActiveVideo Networks as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Nemani will be responsible for positioning ActiveVideo’s CloudTV platform as the pivotal technology that can unify the development and delivery of consistent television interfaces in a fragmented, […]
Open IPTV platform YouView has revealed that Sir Charles Dunstone is to be its interim chairman following the resignation of Lord Alan Sugar. As Chairman of TalkTalk Group, Sir Charles has been involved with YouView since TalkTalk became a shareholder in 2009. YouView says it will now begin a search for a permanent non-executive chairman. […]
Italy’s commercial TV channel La7 has been sold by Telecom Italia Media to media businessman and the owner of Torino Football Club, Urbano Cairo. According to a statement by Telecom Italia’s media arm, Cairo’s media and advertising group Cairo Communications shelled out €1 million for the broadcaster. Cairo said he would recapitalise the loss-making channel […]