ITN has appointed John Hardie, a senior executive at Disney and former ITV commercial director, as its chief executive. Hardie, who succeeds Mark Wood who left ITN in February after six years, takes up the role in June. Hardie, 47, executive vice-president and managing director of Walt Disney Television across Europe, Middle East and Africa, […]

In its second management upheaval in two years, Time Warner has lured Tim Armstrong, the president of Google's North American sales team, to be chief executive of AOL.

Malcolm Wall, the chief executive of Virgin Media’s content business, is leaving the business. His departure comes as Virgin Media is said to be preparing for the sell-off of its TV channels business. Virgin Media Television’s 50% stake in UKTV could also potentially be folded into a new commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and […]

Howard Stringer, Sony chief executive officer, will replace Ryoji Chubachi as president in a move to give the C.E.O. a freer hand in restructuring the struggling electronics giant. Mr. Stringer, 67, will retain his existing title of chairman and C.E.O., Sony said in a statement. Chubachi, 61, will become vice chairman responsible for product quality […]

John Linwood, who left his senior executive role at Yahoo last month, will join the BBC as its new chief technology officer. Linwood will be responsible for maintenance of the corporation’s technical infrastructure and new corporate IT requirements. Chief technology officer is a new role at the BBC, created as part of a restructure of […]

The departure of News Corporation's long serving COO Peter Chernin could lead to James Murdoch moving to join his father in the US sooner than many expected.Chernin, who has run New Corp’s Fox film and TV studios and broadcasting business for the past 12 years has been the counterweight in the Murdoch family-controlled business empire. […]

Former BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has been appointed as the director of programmes at Sky1. Murphy, who is currently creative director at independent production house Twofour, maker of Sky1’s Noel’s HQ, will replace Richard Woolfe, who is moving to head Channel Five.

YouTube has appointed ITV director of viewer marketing Anna Bateson as its European marketing director. She will join the video-sharing site in May to grow the YouTube brand across Europe, as well as develop commercial opportunities Bateson – who joined ITV in 2006 having previously been VP of marketing at MTV- arrives at YouTube a […]

Discovery Communications UK has lost its ad chief, Andrew Grieve, just weeks after the departure of its managing director Dan Brooke Grieve’s departure date is being negotiated, although he is due to start a new job at pay-TV broadcaster the Travel Channel, where he will head commercial activity, on 16 March. Previously, Grieve worked for […]

Sky has announced that Chase Carey, CEO of DirecTV, has resigned as a non-executive director to be replaced by Tom Mockridge. Mockridge is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Sky Italia and Chief Executive, European Television of News Corporation where he oversees News Corporation’s television operations in Europe, outside the UK.