Senior opposition Labour Party politicians have renewed their attacks on Rupert Murdoch and son James over News Corporation’s involvement in the phone hacking scandal and the bid to take control of BSkyB. In particular, the Murdochs’ ongoing part-ownership of BSkyB faced savage criticism from Labour MPs Chris Bryant and Tom Watson. In separate speeches to […]
YouView TV, the joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, TalkTalk, Arqiva and Channel 5 announced the appointment of Chris Bramley as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Bramley will take immediate responsibility for YouView’s technical team and delivering the venture’s overall technology strategy. Bramley was responsible for designing and delivering the first OTT […]
Wadah Khanfar, the highly regarded director general of Al Jazeera resigned unexpectedly on September 20th. He used ‘twitter’ to tell followers that his goal had been to establish the news channel as a global media leader and that his target had been met. Khanfar had been at the Doha-based channel for eight years. He will […]
Alongside the announcement of the renaming of the DVD rental service, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings posted a long ‘mea culpa’ blog. Here it is full: I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation. It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the […]
As part of a broader reorganisation this summer, Canoe Ventures has hired Jonathan Bokor as general manager in charge of interactive TV solutions, promoted Chris Pizzurro to be GM of VoD advertising solutions and recruited Sanjay Patel as vice president of marketing. Last month, Canoe CEO Kathy Timko reshuffled the senior management team of the […]
Berit Svendsen, the CEO of Telenor’s CA subsidiary Conax is named executive vice-president of the group and CEO of the Norwegian business in a shake-up aimed at ‘enhancing innovation.’ Telenor said it was increasing its focus on delivering an “always-on experience” and was establishing a new Digital Services unit, headed by executive vice-president Kristin Skogen […]
Dr Abe Peled was recently promoted to Executive Chairman at NDS, and used his annual IBC press lunch to introduce his new CEO Dave Habiger. Peled said 2011 was proving to be a very important year for the television distribution business. “Topics like OTT seeming to be making headlines everywhere. We have been talking for […]
The normally quiet summer has been anything but this year. It has been full of Events. As a British Prime Minister from what we used to call ‘the ruling class’, replied when asked what caused him most trouble when in office: “Events, dear boy, events”. On that basis it has also been a bad summer […]
Sony Corp has picked a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games networks. Philip Reitinger, previously director of the US National Cyber Security Center, will become senior vice […]
BBC Worldwide has confirmed the appointment of a regional Executive Vice-President (EVP) for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Joerg Bachmaier. Bachmaier will be responsible for BBC Worldwide’s strategic development in EMEA (excluding the UK) and delivering new brands, products and services initiatives to drive future revenue growth across the region. Bachmaier comes aboard from […]