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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The BBC’s Director of Future Media & Technology, Erik Huggers, is to leave the corporation at the end of February to become Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Digital Home Group, based at its Silicon Valley headquarters in California. He replaces interim General Manager Brad Daniels. BBC Director General Mark Thompson said that […]
As commercial director of Virgin Media Digital Sales, Mark Brandon will be responsible for a 20-strong team selling ads across the company’s online, mobile and TV platforms. This will include its TiVo service, which rolled out before Christmas> Previously he was director of platforms at Virgin Media’s former external sales house IDS, which closed last […]
Apple’s Steve Jobs has revealed that he will be taking a medical leave of absence, but has said he will remain CEO of the company and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company. Current Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook takes on responsibility for Apple’s day-to-day operations. Jobs also took a leave in the […]