Fox International Channels (FIC) has announced the promotion of Jesus Perezagua to President, FIC Europe & Africa. Perezagua, who is widely credited with spearheading the growth of FIC’s business in Europe into the most profitable among its global peers, will add 15 TV channels and online businesses in the UK and Africa to his oversight, […]
NDS Group has announced the appointment of Dave Habiger as Chief Executive Officer, and that in his continuing role with the company, Dr. Abe Peled, previously Chairman and CEO, will assume the full time position of Executive Chairman. Habiger’s career in the media began as a founder of Providence Productions. In 1992 he began working […]
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is reportedly looking to launch an Arabic financial news channel. Arabian Business says his Kingdom Holdings is in talks with Bloomberg about a joint-venture that would compete directly with Dubai-based CNBC Arabia, a financial news channel that has been on air since 2003. Should the channel get the go-ahead, it would […]
It seems increasingly likely that James Murdoch will be asked to step aside from his chairmanship role at BSkyB while the assorted investigations into News Corp continue. BSkyB’s independent directors are reportedly adamant that until the phone-hacking scandal is resolved – and which has now seen former News of the World editor Colin Myler directly […]
Did any Murdoch come out well from the recent grilling (albeit typically light grilling) from MPs in the DCMS Select Committee? The only one who enhanced their reputation was Rupert’s wife Wendi. She literally leapt to her husband’s defence as a pie-chucking protester approached and began to hit him with his paper plate, simultaneously shouting […]
The Murdochs, Rupert and James, spent Tuesday afternoon appearing before the Department of Media Culture and Sport Select Committee, answering questions about the phone hacking scandal at News International. At one point late in the session it had to be suspended when a protester tried to attack Rupert Murdoch – with a custard pie. The […]
The boss of Everything Everywhere, the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile, is standing down for “personal reasons”. Tom Alexander, who will leave the chief executive role on 31 August, said he wished “to pursue other interests”. He will be replaced by Olaf Swantee, who is currently executive vice president at […]
Rupert and James Murdoch dramatically changed their minds and dropped their resistance to appearing before the Media Select Committee next Tuesday. The Committee had taken the very unusual step of issuing a Parliamentary Summons. Meanwhile, on Friday morning after two weeks of support from the Murdochs, Rebekah Brooks, CEO News International has resigned. She said: “I […]
Leo Kirch the once all powerful mogul of German media, has died aged 84. At the height of his success in the 1990s, Kirch headed Germany’s second-largest media company, after Bertelsmann. Kirch created a $5 billion empire that included television channels, movie rights and a stake in Formula 1 car racing. But the group unravelled […]
Jonathan Drazin, founder of Electra Entertainment, is leaving the company after eight years to form a new venture Simple Matters. While at Electra, Drazin designed and developed Trove, the world’s first interactive TV service platform for retailers, launched on Freeview and sold by Tesco in the United Kingdom. Prior to founding Electra, he served as […]