SeaChange, the global multi-screen video software company, has confirmed that Raghu Rau has been appointed permanent Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. First appointed interim CEO of SeaChange in November 2011, Rau has led an aggressive strategy to focus the Company on its core software business, delivering software solutions for video service providers globally in cable, […]
Sky has confirmed that Stuart Murphy, currently Director of Sky 1 HD, and Director of Commissioning, will be promoted with immediate effect to Director, Sky Entertainment Channels. Alongside his existing role, Murphy will assume responsibility for shaping the future strategy of the Entertainment portfolio channels: Sky Atlantic HD, Sky Arts HD and Sky Living HD […]
UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt’s special adviser is quitting, in the row over contact between his office and News Corp over the BSkyB bid. Emails released in the Leveson inquiry showed Adam Smith had been in contact with the company about its takeover bid. The Opposition has called for Hunt to quit, saying he fell […]
Richard Ross, the highly successful head of Disney Channel who became chairman of Disney Studios in 2009, has stepped down because of the record flop movie John Carter. He announced in an email: “I no longer believe that the chairman role is the right professional fit for me.” At the movie division, Ross, 50, approved […]
Bruce Rosenblum, president, Warner Bros TV, in a wide-ranging interview with trade mag Broadcasting & Cable at the NAB show in Las Vegas, says the TV industry is in a new golden age, both in terms of the creativity of the shows being produced for broadcast and cable, and in terms of the business generally. […]
Following the annual general meeting of RTL Group, the Group’s newly composed Board of Directors has appointed Thomas Rabe as its new Chairman. Guillaume de Posch and Anke Schäferkordt have been appointed as new Co-CEOs of RTL Group, as already announced in February. Thomas Rabe, Chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann AG, succeeds Siegfried Luther whose […]
While the BBC Trust is agonising over whether to pay its next Director General anything more than about £400,000 (c. $620,000) in annual salary and bonus, US pay-radio operator Sirius-XM has rewarded Mel Karmazin, its CEO, a $1.5 million salary plus $9.2 million in bonuses. His rewards (up 13 per cent) reflect the growth in […]
Following comments made by his predecessor Kim Williams that coverage of an alleged pay-TV piracy in The Australian Financial Review, was “shameful” and “nothing more than an exercise in tar and feathering,” current Foxtel chief executive Richard Freudenstein has described the publication’s reports on the pay-TV market “one of the poorest pieces of journalism I’ve […]
So James Murdoch has quit as chairman of BSkyB. That phrase implies he had a choice, which isn’t really true. The other investors in Sky – who, let us remember, own most of it – were getting nervous that under the continued scrutiny of Parliament and Ofcom the presence of Murdoch in the chair was, […]
It has been confirmed James Murdoch is to step down as Chairman of BSkyB. Following earlier media reports that he had decided to stand down, the BSkyB board confirmed mid-afternoon that Murdoch had resigned as Chairman and would continue to serve in his capacity as a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Murdoch is succeeded as […]