Kevin Ponniah has been appointed BBC News’ Head of Digital News for North America. He will be responsible for all US and Canada digital news reporting across BBC platforms, leading on developing BBC News’ offering on BBC.com and working closely with BBC Studios, the BBC’s commercial arm, on growing audiences, impact and revenue. The role […]
LG Electronics has announced organisational changes in another step towards achieving its Future Vision 2030 announced in July. The company says the changes “are being implemented to strengthen organisational capabilities and business competitiveness to realise the vision of transforming into a smart life solution company that connects and expands various spaces and experiences of customers […]
Curiosity Inc, the factual entertainment and media company, is delighted to announce the appointment of Ludo Dufour as Vice President of Licensing, effective immediately. In this newly created role, Dufour, an experienced international media executive, joins the team to lead and drive the global licensing of Curiosity’s large and growing portfolio of award-winning factual films, […]
Former president of CNN Jeff Zucker is poised to become an unlikely mogul of a British press baron as he nears an agreement to gain control of The Daily Telegraph, the right-leaning UK broadsheet. Sister publication, The Spectator, a conservative magazine and one of Britain’s more prestigious media properties, would also come under the deal […]
Gcore — a European provider of public cloud and edge computing, AI, content delivery, hosting, and security solutions — has announced the appointment of video gaming mogul and entrepreneur Paul Wedgwood as Non-Executive Director. In this role, Wedgwood will play a crucial role in determining the strategy of Gcore as it scales and ensure it […]
International production studio, rights business and channel operator, Blue Ant Media, has announced new leadership across the company’s yet-to-be named studio and rights business, led by Co-Presidents, Mark Bishop (pictured) and Matthew Hornburg. News of the company’s studio and rights leadership team arrives after Blue Ant Media’s recent acquisition of marblemedia, which saw the two […]
InterDigital, a mobile and video technology research and development company, has announced that Dr Alain Mourad, Head of InterDigital’s Wireless Lab Europe, has been elected Chair of the ETSI’s newly developed Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC). The election was held at the inaugural ETSI ISAC ISG meeting on November 17th, […]
Xavier Marlé, who has helped to shape technology transformations and business successes for media and entertainment companies throughout the Asia-Pacific and EMEA markets, has been named Regional Sales Director, Southeast Asia & Australia/New Zealand for Quickplay. Marlé will support the OTT industry’s burgeoning need for fast, flexible, scalable solutions that will continue to drive viewer […]
Seven Bucks Productions, the multi-platform production company co-founded by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Dany Garcia, has expanded its executive team with the addition of Scott Landsman and Melissa Fried, as Head of Television and VP of Film Development & Production, respectively. Seven Bucks say the new appointments enable the company “to keep pace with […]
TVU Networks, a specialist in cloud-based live video solutions, has announced that Oriol Icart has returned to the company as its new Senior Director of Technical Operations for EMEA and CIS. Icart has held leadership roles in companies such as Dorna, MediaPro and betevé throughout his career. With over 25 years of experience observing and […]