Imagine, if you will, that some of our great tech companies are football (i.e. soccer) teams. Would Microsoft be Real Madrid perhaps? A great history – even if some of it, in both cases, remains shrouded in mystery – very rich and very powerful. But living a bit on past glories? A deserved reputation for […]
Malcolm Wall, the former Chief Executive for Content of Virgin Media, is to become Chief Executive Officer of Abu Dhabi Media with effect from September 1st. Abu Dhabi Media manages more than 20 market-leading brands and operates within Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates and the wider Arab community. Wall ran Virgin Media’s television business, […]
Patricia Hodgson is stepping down from the BBC Trust to join Ofcom, months after missing out on the chairman and vice-chairman roles at the corporation’s governing body. The Department for Culture Media and Sport has named Hodgson as a non-executive director of Ofcom. Hodgson will join the board on July 1st for a three-and-a-half year […]
Per Borgklint has been appointed Senior Vice President and head of Business Unit Multimedia at Ericsson effective immediately. Borgklint was previously CEO of the Swedish operator Net1. Established in 2007, Ericsson Business Unit Multimedia develops and delivers software-based solutions to support customer delivering high quality rich consumer services. With OSS/BSS, TV and enabling applications solutions, […]
HomeGrid Forum has revealed that AT&T has joined the organisation as a Promoter Member and been appointed to the HomeGrid Forum board of directors. Tom Starr, lead member of the Technical Staff at AT&T and a telecom industry expert, will serve as the AT&T representative on the board.
GlobeCast has announced that Lisa Coelho has been appointed acting CEO of GlobeCast America, based in New York. Coelho replaces David Justin, who has stepped down from this role to pursue other projects. Previously vice president of GlobeCast WorldTV, Coelho has held senior management positions at GlobeCast since 2003.
Richard Woolfe, the former Sky1 and Channel 5 channel controller, has re-emerged at post-production house Prime Focus. Woolfe has taken the newly created role of creative director to help spearhead the company’s push into TV production. Prime Focus, which was set up in Mumbai in 1997 and established a London presence in 2006, launched a […]
HBO Central Europe has launched HBO GO in Romania. HBO GO is the Internet streaming service available to HBO subscribers with a broadband connection. The service in Romania will be accessible to customers that have broadband Internet and an HBO Maxpak subscription. In Romania HBO GO will be available initially to iNES IPTV clients. iNES […]
Christine Ockrent has quit as the head of France 24 the government funded news channel broadcast in French, English and Arabic, amid accusations of espionage, harassment and incompetence. The network – intended to take in the BBC, CNN and al-Jazeera has struggled to make an impact and will losw about €7 million this year. Ockrent, […]
Charlie Ergen, founder of EchoStar, announced May 16 he was stepping aside from the president/CEO positions at Dish Network, and appointed industry veteran Joe Clayton to replace him. Ergen will stay on as chairman, and he will also chair EchoStar Corp., which looks after set-top box-making for the pay-TV platform. Clayton told journalists that he […]