German shareholder representation group DSW has stated the board of Sky Deutschland has an obligation to take legal action against the company’s former management over its alleged misstating of subscriber numbers and its financial situation. Last week the company was castigated by financial regulator BaFin for allegedly overstating its subscriber figures and thereby misleading the […]
AETN International, a division of A&E Television Networks, has confirmed the appointment of Liz Higgins as Director, Strategy & Business Development, Europe. Higgins will be responsible for formulating AETN’s growth strategy and investment activities for Europe across business lines including channels and digital distribution. Higgins joins AETN from British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) where she has […]
AETN International, a division of A&E Television Networks, LLC (AETN), today announced the appointment of Liz Higgins as Director, Strategy & Business Development, Europe. Based in London, Higgins will be responsible for formulating AETN’s growth strategy and investment activities for Europe across business lines including channels and digital distribution. Higgins will report to Dean Possenniskie, […]
NYCE Networks, a leading provider of innovative Plastic Optical Fiber to Ethernet products, has announced the appointment of Robert Heath as CEO of the company. “We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Robert Heath as the CEO of NYCE.” says Matt Rooyakkers, Founder and Chairman of NYCE Networks, “As NYCE continues to grow into […]
Web video service Babelgum has appointed its third chief executive, with current CMO Stefania Valenti replacing Valerio Zingarelli. Funded by Italian telecoms billionaire Silvio Scaglia the founder of FastWeb, the service opted to cut costs by closing its Dublin HQ and Nice office in November 2009 to consolidate at its London, Milan and New York […]
Cable Europe has confirmed the appointment of Peter Percosan, as Managing Director to oversee the pan-European operation of Cable Europe Labs (CEL). The position will have direct management responsibility for the technology development and coordination throughout CEL. Percosan will succeed Malcolm Taylor who successfully served the association for many years, and who will remain as […]
YouTube co-founder, Chad Hurley, is stepping aside as chief executive and taking an advisory role. Hurley, who launched YouTube in February 2005 with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, said he was moving to the role of adviser and had handed over to Salar Kamangar, the former vice president of web applications at parent company Google. […]
Sogecable, Spain’s largest pay-TV group and owner of Cuatro, has been re-branded as Prisa TV. It will hold all Prisa’s TV assets: Digital DTH platform, Digital Plus, Cuatro, the Portuguese channel TV1, the production company Plural with offices in Madrid, Lisbon, Miami and Rio de Janerio and the US New York-based channel Vme. Prisa TV […]
The BBC has finally appointed a new digital media director to run BBC Online, BBC iPlayer, BBC Mobile and BBC Red Button . Ralph Rivera moves from New York and from being online president of Major League Gaming, previously he had been head of games at AOL for 10 years. He will report to the […]
Danny Cohen has been appointed as controller of BBC1. Cohen has been in charge of BBC3 since May 2007, and will now be in charge of the country’s most popular TV channel with a budget of £1.13 billion (E1.288bn). He takes over the role immediately and also joins the BBC Vision board. Prior to joining […]