Business Secretary Vince Cable has confirmed the appointment of Richard Hooper to lead a feasibility study on developing a Digital Copyright Exchange (DCE) in the UK. A DCE has the potential to boost economic growth in the creative sector by lowering the costs of licensing and giving businesses and consumers easier access to copyrighted material. […]
Walt Disney President and Chief Executive Robert Iger is joinning the Apple board. At the same time, Genentech Chairman Arthur Levinson, an Apple board member since 2005, will become the company’s non-executive chairman of the board, filling the role Jobs occupied briefly after his resignation as Apple’s chief executive in August. Apple has long ties […]
BT has hired Virgin Media’s Executive Director, Commercial, TV and Online Alex Green to help drive the telco’s next-generation TV offering. He will be focused on building on the success of BT Vision and developing the company’s involvement in the YouView IPTV service, which is scheduled for launch in 2012. At Virgin Media, Green was […]
Fox International Channels (FIC) has confirmed the appointment of Alberto Rossini to Vice President, Head of Entertainment of Fox Channels Italy. Rossini will join the group in January 2012. In his role, Rossini will oversee all aspects of Programming, Production, On Air, Broadcast Design and Acquisitions for the group’s pay-TV entertainment channels: Fox, Fox Life, […]
AMC Networks has confirmed that Bruce Tuchman is joining the company as President, AMC/Sundance Channel Global, the company’s international division. Tuchman joins AMC Networks from MGM Worldwide Networks, where he served as President since 2001. In his new role, Tuchman will lead the strategic expansion of the company’s global business, including the distribution, programming and […]
Inverto Digital Labs, broadcast reception and streaming product designer and vendor has announced the appointment of Klaus Fuchs, formerly Director of International Sales for Technisat, as its new Director of Sales and Marketing. The Company further unveiled that Yannick-Olivier Laperche, previously its Vice President of Sales and Marketing, will take the role of Chief Operating […]
David Rayner, CFO at EchoStar is to leave the company November 8 “to pursue other opportunities” said a regulatory filing late on October 28. He was appointed CFO in June 2010. He will be replaced by Ken Carroll, currently EchoStar’s SVP/business development. Rayner, who received some $860,000 in total compensation last year, served as EchoStar’s […]
Filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission have revealed that more than one-third of the votes cast at News Corp’s annual shareholders’ meeting October 21st opposed returning Rupert Murdoch’s two sons, James and Lachlan, to the board of directors. Murdoch, the company’s Chairman and Chief Executive, fared better, winning the backing of an overwhelming […]
Rupert Murdoch has survived calls for his removal as News Corp chairman following the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of the company’s News of the World tabloid title . News Corp said that a majority of the 100 or so shareholders at a meeting in Los Angeles supported his re-election to the […]
Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, has reorganised its management and operating structure with the appointment of Jørgen Madsen as Executive Vice President of Nordic Broadcasting and Anders Nilsson as Executive Vice President of Central European Broadcasting. Irina Gofman continues in her role as Executive Vice President of Russian & CIS Broadcasting […]