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ITV new media head

ITV Worldwide, the broadcaster's overseas commercial arm, is appointing former Roo sales director Jason Binks as head of digital and new media. ITV Worldwide says

September 9, 2008

Graham for Harmonic EMEA role

Glen Sakata, who successfully led Harmonic’s EMEA reorganization for the past two years, has been named Vice President of Sales for the Americas, with responsibility for North America broadcast, satellite and telco sales, as well as Latin America sales across all market segments. In addition, Jim Marino was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales […]

August 28, 2008

Mackenzie for MyVideoRights

Ashley Mackenzie says the company will aggregate videos and the rights to commercially exploit them, then syndicate them to what he says is a growing appetite for web video amongst small- and medium-sized destinations, like magazine websites. The focus is on short-form clips and MyVideoRights will handle all the video encoding chores on behalf of […]

August 20, 2008

Alcatel-Lucent founders step down

The Paris-based company said its net loss for the quarter ended June 30 was E1.1 billion, compared with E586 million a year earlier.

July 30, 2008

New CEO for Thomson

Rose, a French-American national, was formerly president of Alcatel-Lucent's Europe, Asia and Africa business and a member of the telecoms equipment-maker's executive committee.

July 28, 2008

BBC: Huggers in and virtual IBM man

Erik Huggers has been confirmed by the BBC as its new director of future media and technology, replacing Ashley Highfield. The BBC has also hired Roo Reynolds, who is currently a ';metaverse evangelist' at IBM, will join the corporation as portfolio executive for social media, with a role across BBC Vision. Reynolds, who has been […]

July 22, 2008