Colette Bowe has been confirmed as the next chairman of media regulator Ofcom. Bowe, currently an Ofcom board member, will replace David Currie, who is stepping down at Easter next year after being in the job for six years, since the regulator was set up. Bowe was appointed as chair of Ofcom’s advisory consumer panel […]

Frontier Silicon has announced its founding membership of the Internet Media Device Alliance (IMDA), to be launched at next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Frontier's CEO, Anthony Sethill, has been appointed to serve on the steering committee of the new association. IMDA aims to develop and promote a set of open standards and […]

Thomas Ebeling is to be the new CEO ProSiebenSat.1 as successor to Guillaume de Posch. Ebeling was most recenty CEO of pharmaceutical company Novartis Consumer Health. De Posch announced in June that he would resign at the end of the year.

UKTV has hired Keith Porritt as executive director for commercial operations. Porritt, who will start his job in the new year, will have responsibility for managing UKTV’s relationships with programme suppliers, handle legal and business affairs and lead all commercial activity outside advertising sales. This will include handling the relationship with BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s […]

NDS has announced that Caroline Le Bigot has taken on responsibility for its business in Latin America in addition to her senior role in EMEA. In recognition of her contribution to NDS and reflecting her expanded responsibility, Le Bigot has been promoted to NDS Senior Vice President, EMEA and Latin America, and General Manager, NDS […]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) has promoted Bruce Tuchman to President, of MGM Networks. In this newly created position, Tuchman will continue to oversee MGM Networks, the division of MGM which manages and develops the company's interests in both MGM and non-MGM branded international television channels and services distributed via cable, satellite, IPTV, SVOD, Mobile and other […]

Sky1 controller Richard Woolfe is leaving to join Channel Five in a senior programming role. The new Five chief executive, Dawn Airey, has persuaded Woolfe to join the terrestrial broadcaster as channel controller. Woolfe will be in charge of commissioning, scheduling and strategy for Five’s main terrestrial channel.

BBC Future Media & Technology director Erik Huggers and chief operating officer Kerstin Mogull are shuffling personell, in what looks like further multimedia integration and a response to BBC.co.uk overspending. Anthony Rose, who was brought in from KaZaA last year as head of media technology, becomes controller of the Vision & Online Media Group. User […]

Project Kangaroo's set back continue as CEO Ashley Highfield leaves the online venture before launch to become managing director for Microsoft UK’s online operation. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Rod Henwood, the former Channel 4 business director responsible for launching 4oD, the channel’s on-demand service, while a search for a replacement […]

Irish pay-TV operator Setanta has called in headhunters to find a chief executive for its Great Britain operation following the departure of Mark O’Meara. O’Meara and commercial director Mark Mohan, who have run the GB business while being primarily based in Ireland, stepped down in September. …..