Steve Jobs of Apple has succumbed to the cancer that has dogged him for the past decade, he was 56 years-old. President Obama said he was a great American innovator while life-long rival Bill Gates said his impact would be felt for generations to come. Ironically, as a former hippie, he ultimately lead what in […]
Rather than disrupt television, digital technology has transformed it, according to Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television Group. Delivering the MIPCOM Personality of the Year Keynote Address, Sweeney said that Disney would continue to be a content creator and technology innovator, and recognised that the broadcast industry was now doing things […]
Telestream, the provider of video transcoding and workflow solutions, has announced new sales management roles for senior executives to help drive long-term business expansion in established and growth markets. Steve Ellis was named Vice President of Emerging Markets and Kevin McCartney was named Vice President of Sales for Telestream’s enterprise products. These changes will allow […]
On Demand Group (ODG), a SeaChange company, today announced the appointment of Stephen Riome as Managing Director. In his new role, Riome will take on the responsibility for day-to-day operations and profitability of all aspects of ODG’s existing global business. Along with ODG’s fully managed transactional service business, Riome will also be responsible for […]
Investors in News Corporation have been urged to vote against the re-election of his James Murdoch as a company director by an influential advisory group. Pirc, the pensions industry organisation which advises shareholders on corporate governance issues, said: “In light of his close association with the phone-hacking scandal we are advising shareholders to oppose James […]
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 […]