The US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has threatened the head of Netflix with legal action for posting information about the company’s performance on Facebook rather than though official channels. Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings announced on the site that monthly viewing figures had passed one billion hours in June for the first time. Shares […]
Subhash Chandra, and his son Punit Goenka, potentially face arrest next week over allegations of extortion of Rs 1 billion by members of their staff. On December 6th a Delhi court granted the two executives interim protection from arrest until December 14th. The Chandras run the Zee broadcasting empire. They are appearing before Delhi police […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has announced that Marek Singer has been appointed as Executive Vice President of the Group’s Central European Broadcasting operations with effect from January 1st 2013. Singer will join MTG’s senior management team and assume responsibility for the Group’s free-TV operations in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech […]
A day after announcing a major deal with Disney, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said they were determined to secure more exclusive programme rights and develop additional original content. With the Disney deal, Netflix beat out Starz, which currently has the pay-TV rights, for new titles from Disney. Harvey Weinstein, cofounder of The Weinstein […]
Samsung has promoted the only son of chairman Lee Kun-hee to vice-chairman, putting him in pole position to take leadership of the world’s largest technology company by sales. The new position for Lee Jae-yong is a reward for his “invaluable contributions to the unprecedented growth of Samsung’s smartphone and TV businesses”, the company said.Lee, 44, […]
Rupert Murdoch’s mother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, has died peacefully at home in Australia, aged 103. She died at the family home, Cruden Farm, outside Melbourne, and is survived by three children and 77 direct descendants, including five great-great grandchildren. Rupert Murdoch, 81, regards his mother’s longevity as a sign he will be able to carry […]
News Corp has revealed that Mike Darcey, COO at BSkyB, is to become the next chief executive of News International, following the news that Tom Mockridge is leaving at the end of the year. Mockridge, who was parachuted in from Sky Italia to take over from the management tainted by hacking, resigned unexpectedly as chief […]
CNN has named former NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker as its CEO searching for a way to turn around the cable news network as it has lagged behind rivals Fox News Channel and MSNBC. Zucker will start in January, based in New York and reporting to Phil Kent, who runs all of the Turner networks […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital TV in the UK, has confirmed the line-up of the recently launched Future of Innovation in Television Technology (FITT) Taskforce and its key work streams for 2013. Launched by the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey in September, the Taskforce’s aim is […]
It is a sign of how seriously CNN’s troubles are affecting the news broadcaster that it is NBC’s former CEO, Jeff Zucker, who is being tipped to take the president’s job in Atlanta, according to US press reports. Zucker has a strong news background having masterminded, as exec-producer, NBC’s (usually) ratings winning Today show. In […]