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Hamlet appoints Brian Massie

Hamlet has appointed well-known industry figure Brian Massie as UK and International sales manager. He took up his new role on the 1 December 2010. Massie’s experience in the industry includes positions with Oxtel, Miranda and Omnitek. He thus brings a broad range of experience covering infrastructure, graphics, control and branding as well as test […]

February 10, 2011

Hamlet appoints Massie

Hamlet, provider of television broadcast test, measurement and monitoring devices, has appointed well-known industry figure Brian Massie as UK and International sales manager. Massie’s experience in the industry includes positions with Oxtel, Miranda and Omnitek. He thus brings a broad range of experience covering infrastructure, graphics, control and branding as well as test and measurement […]

February 10, 2011

Denmark manager for Fox

Fox International Channels (FIC) Europe, has announced today the promotion of Theis Heitmann as Country Manager for Denmark. In his new post Heitmann will continue to be based in Copenhagen and will be in charge of FIC’s daily operatons and further development in Denmark. He will assume new responsibilities as the main person on this […]

February 4, 2011

ITV online new team

ITV has hired ex BBC Online manager James Micklethwait to head a new team responsible for ITV’s online and on-demand products, both free and paid. Micklethwait will be product strategy and customer engagement director. At the BBC, he had previously been programme director for Open iPlayer, the failed project for sharing iPlayer technology with other […]

January 31, 2011

Appointments for S&T Americas

Strategy & Technology (S&T), a provider of interactive television technologies around the world, has promoted Adrian Fowkes to Chief Technical Officer, Americas and Kate Chaux to Director of Operations, Americas, and has hired Steven Gravlin as Senior Sales Account Manager as part of a strengthening that responds to market and customer demands in North America. […]

January 28, 2011

S&T builds S&T Americas office with key appointments

Strategy & Technology (S&T), a provider of interactive television technologies around the world, has promoted Adrian Fowkes to Chief Technical Officer, Americas and Kate Chaux to Director of Operations, Americas, and has hired Steven Gravlin as Senior Sales Account Manager as part of a strengthening that responds to market and customer demands in North America. […]

January 28, 2011

New boss for NHK Japan

A new president appointed at Japan’s public broadcaster NHK. Masayuki Matsumoto succeeded Shigeo Fukuchi, whose three-year term has now ended. Matsumoto referred to the impending digital switch-over, scheduled for July, in his opening address, saying: “As an organisation supported by viewers receiving fee, we must always stand firmly by the principle of public broadcaster and […]

January 26, 2011By Chris Forrester

Thailand endorses pay-TV

CASBAA’s Thailand in View forum concluded with an endorsement of the power of pay-TV by H.E. Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand. The Prime Minister championed regulatory change to support the growth of the cable and satellite broadcast industry as a constructive and ethical medium in Thailand. “We were greatly encouraged to hear H.E. Abhisit […]

January 26, 2011

RGB Networks expands Board of Directors with Silicon Valley veteran Christopher Paisley

RGB Networks, the leader in high-capacity three screen video delivery solutions, today announced that Christopher B. Paisley, a veteran financial executive and currently the Dean’s Executive Professor of Accounting and Finance at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business, has joined the company’s board of directors. “Chris’ experience as a CFO, academic, board member and […]

January 26, 2011

Cassells heads AEPOC

The European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services, announced the appointment of Sheila Cassells to the position of AEPOC Executive Director. Cassells will assume the duties of the Executive Director as of February 1st, 2011; her designation was confirmed unanimously within an AEPOC extraordinary Board of Directors meeting on January 21st. In […]

January 25, 2011