Michael Jackson, the former chief executive of Channel 4, has reportedly walked away from his role as chairman designate of SeeSaw, as a dispute over financing threatens the online TV venture’s future. Criterion Capital Partners, which bought SeeSaw from broadcast transmission firm Arqiva in early July, intended to bring in Jackson to lead a turnaround […]
In a move that has shocked the technology world, co-founder Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, with the company’s Board naming Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the new CEO. Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately. His relinquishing of daily […]
Viasat Broadcasting announced that it has appointed Daniela Neumann as Vice President of Central Programming. Daniela Neumann is an experienced free-TV programming executive, having worked for LWT, ITV and Virgin Media Television, in production, commissioning and as channel controller. Most recently she has been the Acting Controller of Entertainment at ITV.
A letter from News Corp’s lawyers Harbottle & Lewis is going to make life extremely difficult for James Murdoch. The damning letter, revealed by the lawyers to a UK parliamentary enquiry, in effect confirms that bosses at disgraced newspaper the News of the World knew all about the now notorious phone-hacking methods, and that such […]
Samir Abdulhadi, the former head of Orbit, has been appointed chairman of Panther Media Group, which operates the Dubai-based Orbit Showtime Network. He succeeds Faisal Al Ayyar, who was previously the chairman of Showtime/Gulf DTH. Abdulhadi’s appointment is effective from August 10th. Abdulhardi is the Saudi Arabian Mawarid Group’s senior representative on the Panther board. […]
Emma Tennant has been appointed to the role of Controller of UKTV and will assume full editorial leadership for the company’s portfolio of 10 channels and its multiplatform activities. Tennant joins from ITV where, as Controller of Digital Channels (ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4), she helped deliver consistent and sustained growth across its digital portfolio. Tennant […]
Bridge Technologies has announced the appointment of Martin Crawley as head of the Bridge Academy — the company’s widely acclaimed training programme for digital media monitoring professionals. In his new role as Senior Product Specialist at Bridge Technologies, Crawley will focus on both strengthening and expanding the Bridge Academy’s program offerings. Crawley joins Bridge Technologies […]
Current TV, backed by former Vice President Al Gore, and to date presented as a channel that largely depended on viewer-generated content, looks as if it is about to change its profile. On August 8th it appointed David Bohrman as its new president, hired from CNN, and replacing Mark Rosenthal who stepped down two weeks […]
Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, will not after all be joining the company’s Board as had been suggested at the time of News’ £415 million acquisition of her television production company the Shine Group. “I expect Liz Murdoch to join the board of News Corporation on completion of this […]
James Murdoch is expected to be recalled to give evidence to MPs in September to answer questions about whether he knew that phone hacking was not confined to one rogue reporter at the News of the World. The culture, media and sport select committee will write to Murdoch, chairman of News International, and three of […]