GlobeCast Australia has announced the retirement of its Chief Executive Officer, Mike Lattin, who will continue with the company in an important advisory role. The company also announced the appointment of Simon Farnsworth as Chief Executive Officer. The changes have immediate effect. Farnsworth has worked for 10 years with the GlobeCast Group, most recently as […]
GlobeCast Australia has announced the retirement of its Chief Executive Officer, Mike Lattin, who will continue with the company in an important advisory role. The company also announced the appointment of Simon Farnsworth as Chief Executive Officer. The changes have immediate effect. Farnsworth has worked for 10 years with the GlobeCast Group, most recently as […]
ITV’s managing director of online and on-demand Robin Pembrooke, is leaving the commercial broadcaster. He will be replaced by Julian March who will take up the new position of director of online. March, who helped lead the relaunch of ITV.com’s news and sport sites earlier this year in his role as head of digital media […]
French Authorities have placed the former head of France Telecom Didier Lombard under formal investigation for harassment. The investigation relates to the suicides of over 30 employees in 2008 and 2009 when Lombard was in charge. The launching of a formal investigation is the last stage before charges are brought in the French legal system. […]
The BBC has gone for the ‘safe option’ of appointing from within and named George Entwistle as the next Director-General. Entwistle is currently head of Vision (TV services). He will take over from Mark Thompson after the Olympics and will be paid £450,000 a year, a little over half his predecessor’s package. Announcing the appointment, […]
Rupert Murdoch has vowed not to make a new bid for BSkyB after the division of News Corp, saying he would focus his media empire on the US because “the English” had made him unwilling to invest any further in the UK. The News Corp chairman’s outburst came in an American television interview with Bloomberg […]
Sony’s recently appointed CEO Kazuo Hirai told shareholders at Sony’s AGM in Tokyo that the electronics giant’s turnaround plan would work, helped by new products such as Sony’s new Xperia smartphone, gaming and digital imaging, plus a newly established medical division. Hirai explained that group sales would expand by about one third to more than […]
Google is getting help from shock jock Howard Stern to revive its Internet TV software, which has languished since its debut 19 months ago. Sirius XM will make all of its programming, including Howard Stern, available on Google TV, through a new app that will let listeners pause live programmes and play back up to […]
Espial, a specialist in on-demand TV software and solutions, has appointed Philip Poulidis as its new vice president of Smart TV. In his new role, Poulidis will lead Espial’s Smart TV initiatives, enabling consumer electronics vendors to add TV Web browsing, interactive TV content and applications, as well as over-the-top web video to devices such […]
Jana Bennett, President of Worldwide Networks and the Global BBC iPlayer, has decided to leave BBC Worldwide in late autumn following implementation of a major reorganisation of the company, as BBC Worldwide reconfigures the business from divisional to geographic lines. As a result, P&L ownership will move from the existing global divisions to a number […]