Deltatre, a specialist in streaming and digital technology, has appointed Marco Frigerio as Vice President of Media Sales EMEA. Reporting to Oliver Botti, Head of Media Sales EMEA, Frigerio – who joins Deltatre after holding senior commercial roles at companies including Fast Channels Network, Piksel and TXT Group – will play a key part in […]
ITV has announced that Stefan Hoejmose will join the company as its new Group Chief Data and AI Officer, starting on July 8th. Hoejmose joins ITV from Roku, the US streaming platform, where he led the Data Science and Machine Learning team. He has previously also held senior data roles at Dyson, Sky, MediaCom and […]
The World Broadcasting Unions (WBU) has announced two new incoming chairpersons for its committees. Bassil Zoubi is the 2024/2025 Chair of the WBU Technical Committee, from the Arab States Broadcasting Union. Zoubi began his career as a transmission engineer for Jordan Radio & Television before joining the Arab States Broadcasting Union in 1994. Since 2016, […]
HBO, in association with Warner Bros Television, has named Francesca Gardiner (Succession, His Dark Materials, Killing Eve) as writer, showrunner and executive producer, and Mark Mylod (Succession, Game of Thrones, The Last of Us) as executive producer and director of multiple episodes of the upcoming original Harry Potter series. The series, coming to Max, will […]
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has announced that Larissa Knapp, the fourth-highest ranking official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), will lead its content protection mission, strengthening the fight against online piracy worldwide. Knapp joins the MPA after 27 years with the FBI, most recently leading the Bureau’s National Security Branch where she managed […]
The Members of the Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe (ACT) elected the new ACT Board following the Association’s annual General Assembly that took place in Brussels on 19 June 2024. The new Board Members are elected for a period of two years. They are: Carolina Lorenzon (Mediaset) – Chair […]
Bob Gold & Associates, a boutique PR & Marketing services agency, focused on Technology, Media and Telecom, is expanding its core PR practice areas with the establishment of a streaming media and pay TV communications group to be led by Eric Becker in Denver. Becker, a former SVP at Starz and strategic communication agency, ICR, […]
Expectation has hired Sarah Harris as its new Head of Development for Factual and Factual Drama. Harris will be joining Expectation from Sandpaper Films where she worked as Head of Development and oversaw projects including the recently-announced feature documentary Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate & The Dark Side of the Internet for Sky Documentaries, as well as […]
TrillerTV has reported that Keith Evans, the company’s chief streaming operations officer, died unexpectedly on June 16th at his home in Henderson, Nevada. Evans joined TrillerTV, formerly FITE TV, in 2016, and was responsible for all aspects of airing programming on the platform coordinating with the producers at the venues, the satellite companies, other third-party […]
VERSA Studios has appointed Paul Greer as Vice President of Sales. This follows the recent Leeds Studios FAE Partnership announcement and will see Greer leading commercial partnerships for the business across key creative media, tech and innovation sectors. Greer is a veteran in the entertainment industry, with a career spanning over 15 years across film, […]