In a surprise move, international entertainment broadcasting group Modern Times Group has announced that its long-standing President and CEO Hans-Holger Albrecht is to leave the company. Albrecht will leave MTG in September to become President and CEO of Millicom International Cellular, the Nasdaq OMX listed global telecommunications group. He will be replaced by Jørgen Madsen. […]
Jim Walton, the worldwide president at CNN – and a 30-year veteran of the news broadcaster – says he will leave at the end of the year. Phil Kent, Turner Broadcasting’s president and CEO as well as Jeff Bewkes, Time-Warner’s chairman/CEO both praised Walton for his efforts at CNN in an exchange of notes. However, […]
BlackArrow, a worldwide provider of advanced advertising solutions for New TV platforms, has announced that Michael Pohl has been named chairman of the company’s board of directors. Pohl, who joined the BlackArrow board in 2011, replaces Larry Kramer, who was recently appointed president and publisher of USA TODAY, aschairman. Kramer will remain a member of […]
Some major shareholders have renewed their call for Rupert Murdoch to resign as News Corp chairman at the company’s annual meeting later this year. Eighteen major shareholders including Connecticut’s state pension fund and the UK’s Legal & General have now signed a letter calling for Murdoch to step down from the company he has spent […]
Federico de Mojana de Cologna is the new Managing Director of the Italian office of Eurosport, the European sport entertainment Media Group. Born in 1972, de Mojana graduated in Law in 1996 at University of Milan. After de Mojana moved to Paris to work at Canal+, where he was in charge of the Spanish market, […]
Xytech, a global expert in facility management software for the broadcast and media services industries, has announced that veteran sales leader Barry Lyne has joined the company as Director of Sales, EMEA. Lyne brings over 30 years of successful business experience, with a focus on growing revenues in the information technology and asset management sectors. […]
Eric Gerritsen, currently CEO for Italy and VP Emea Corporate & Crisis Communications at Burson-Marsteller, has been appointed as Executive Vice President Communications & Public Affairs at Sky Italia. Gerritsen’s role is a new position in Sky Italia. He will start at Sky in September and will report directly to the CEO Andrea Zappia.
UK telco BT has said that its BT Vision pay-TV operation has become a credible market player following its acquisition of Premier League football rights. BT Vision chief executive Marc Watson told Reuters that winning 38 live matches per season would bring more customers to its fledgling TV base and also to its new faster […]
The annual gathering of the world’s top media and technology moguls at Allen & Co’s Sun Valley, Idaho, event is a ‘must attend’ if you want to stay abreast of the latest thinking – and gossip – from the VIPs present. Now Bloomberg TV (and Bloomberg’s TV+ app) saves you the bother of pressing that […]
Liberty Global has revealed that Niall Curran has been appointed as President of its international content company Chellomedia. Curran has been Chellomedia’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) since 2003 and has been instrumental in the division’s considerable growth over the 10 year period; the group is a leading producer and distributor of television channels and a […]