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ITN appoints mobile man

UK TV-and-video news producer ITN Productions is hiring its first head of mobile – mobile ad net 4th Screen Advertising's Miguel Tatay. Through ITN On, ITN has been providing video news to other services and through apps for the last two years.

May 13, 2010

Marks heads ProSiebenSat.1 new media

ProSiebenSat.1, has announced a restructuring that sets up a New Media division under the leadership of Dan Marks, former head of BT Vision. The division includes Christoph Bellmer as head of new TV and CEO of SevenSenses and Silke Kuisle as managing director of MyVideo and Arnd Benninghoff as CEO of SevenOne Intermedia. “My goal […]

May 11, 2010

C4 Lygo goes to ITV

ITV announced the appointment of Kevin Lygo as Managing Director of ITV Studios. Adam Crozier, new Chief Executive of ITV, said: "A clear outcome of the ongoing strategy review is the importance of our in-house production arm to the future of ITV's business. "Kevin's appointment underlines our commitment to ensuring home-grown content stays at the […]

May 3, 2010

Fox appoints Ytreland MD Nordic

Fox International Channels (FIC) Europe has hired Ã…se Ytreland as the new MD for Nordic and Baltic regions. Ytreland will be based in the FIC Nordic's local offices in Copenhagen and Oslo and report directly to Jesús Perezagua, FIC Europe president. Over the last two years, she has been partly based in London as EMEA […]

April 27, 2010

McCann leads Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon UK has appointed Turner Broadcasting's chief content officer to head its UK operation. Tina McCann becomes the new senior vice president and chief content officer for Nickelodeon UK replacing Howard Litton who left in January. She has previously been acting chief content officer for Turner's children's entertainment brands in EMEA, including Cartoon Network, Boomerang […]

April 27, 2010

Frank quits ESPN

Lynne Frank, the senior vice-president and managing director of ESPN for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, who oversaw the grab for Setanta’s Premier League rights, is leaving. Frank plans to return to her native California for family reasons, with a successor due to be appointed by September. She will stay on to oversee the […]

April 21, 2010

Erik Haug appointed CEO of Telenor Denmark

Telenor Group has confirmed that Jon Erik Haug has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Telenor in Denmark. Erik Haug will succeed Henrik Clausen, who is appointed CEO of DiGi, Telenor’s subsidiary in Malaysia. Erik Haug has held several positions within the Telenor Group, most recently as Marketing Director in Telenor in Sweden where he […]

April 8, 2010

Digital executive leaves News Corp

Jeremy Philips, one of Rupert Murdoch's most senior Internet executives, has confirmed he is leaving News Corp, highlighting the media empire's reduced appetite for the digital deal-making he had been hired to oversee. Philips vetted possible deals, working on the group's on-off talks with Yahoo before the Internet company's search agreement with Microsoft.

April 2, 2010

Leroy joins Eutelsat as Director of Strategy

Michel de Rosen, Chief Executive Officer of Eutelsat has announced the appointment of Yohann Leroy as Director of Strategy. Leroy joined Eutelsat from the office of the French Prime Minister, where he was technical advisor for Industry and Information Technology from 2007 to 2010. This followed four years as head of the industrial development department […]

March 26, 2010

BBC Vision head leaves

BBC Vision's head of multiplatform products Lloyd Shepherd is leaving the corporation after nine months. He commented “It's probably worth saying this decision has nothing to do with the BBC Strategic Review.” Shepherd joined Channel 4 as future media solutions head in 2008, but left for the BBC in June 2009.

March 12, 2010