Levira’s Media Services Division has a new member, Raul Aav, who is responsible for launching and developing new projects and for technical support for media services. He has long experience from a number of large international media groups. “I am very pleased that Raul agreed to join our team,” comments Indrek Lepp, Division Director of […]
The UK’s Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey, speaking at the Oxford Media Convention, said that BSkyB should stop charging the UK’s public broadcasters for access to Sky’s viewers. BSkyB charges the BBC, commercial broadcaster ITV, and Channel’s 4 and Five, a ‘technical fee’ for access to its set-top boxes, and use of Red Button interactive technology. […]
Kim Dotcom, the founder of closed-down file-sharing site Megaupload, has launched a new website – Mega – which promises ‘military-grade’ encryption and which Dotcom insists will operate legally and is not setting out to affront the Hollywood studios or the US government. Dotcom, who revealed plans for the new service at the beginning of November […]
The Oprah Winfrey interview with cyclist Lance Armstrong generated 3.1 million US viewers to the full telecast, a record for OWN, the Winfrey-fronted channel (and totalled 4.3m with a later repeat), plus millions more around the world. OWN charged $100,000 per 30-second advert during the commercial breaks, a huge premium on the channel’s normal rate-card […]
The Royal Television Society, the forum for television and related media, has announced the appointment of Theresa Wise as Chief Executive. Wise has twenty five years’ experience working across the television, broader media and technology sectors. At The Walt Disney Company, she was Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy for EMEA. Wise joined Disney from Accenture […]
ProSiebenSat.1 Group has confirmed the appointment of Ralf Schremper to CFO Digital with effect from February. Schremper will take on this new position in addition to his two functions as Executive VP of Strategic Planning/Mergers & Acquisitions and as CFO and Managing Director of Red Arrow Entertainment Group. Schremper replaces the departing Ralf Gierig.
Grass Valley has announced the appointment of Tim Thorsteinson as President and CEO, effective immediately. Thorsteinson has held numerous senior roles in the broadcast technology industry, including the President and CEO of Grass Valley, President of the Broadcast Communications division of Harris Corp., and President and CEO of Leitch. Most recently Tim was President and […]
Grass Valley has announced the appointment of Tim Thorsteinson as President and CEO, effective immediately. Ideally suited to lead Grass Valley through the next phase of its evolution, Tim has held numerous senior roles in the broadcast technology industry, including the President and CEO of Grass Valley, President of the Broadcast Communications division of Harris […]
Members of online hacktivist group Anonymous have targeted sites related to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) following the suicide of Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder who championed open access to documents on the Internet. Swartz was arrested in July 2011 and accused of stealing four million documents from MIT and Jstor, an archive of […]
Olivier Schramek has been named the new president of media French regulator the CSA by president François Hollande. He will replace the outgoing chief Michel Boyon. Schramek was chief of staff to Lionel Jospin when he became prime minister in 1997. The French government has denied any insinuation that the appointment of Schramek was a […]