ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has appointed Jon Lefebvre as its new Vice President, Sales Operations and Strategy. He will be based in Singapore and will report directly to Charles Less, Senior Vice President, Advertising and Multimedia Sales. Prior to his move to Singapore, Lefebvre was based in Australia where he ran J&M international, a boutique […]

Mike Volpi, less than a week after stepping down as CEO of the struggling Joost, has surfaced as a partner at venture capital firm Index Ventures. Index was one of the investors in the $45 million round for Joost, which helps explain why Volpi is staying on as chairman while the company, which failed to […]

Globecomm Systems, provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions, has announced that the company has appointed Keith Hall as President and Chief Operating Officer. Hall will assume the overall responsibilities for both the infrastructure and service operations of the company. Over the last six years, Hall has led the service sector of Globecomm's business, increasing growth […]

Joost the much-hyped OTT video provider is dropping its consumer proposition and reinventing as a "cost-effective" white-label video provider. Along the way it is cutting many staff possibly preparing for a sale as a technology company rather than an entertainment platform. Mike Volpi its high profile CEO is stepping down although will remain as chairman. […]

YouTube confirmed that Steve Chen, a co-founder and most recently YouTube's chief technology officer, was no longer working at the company. Chen left some time ago to work on unspecified engineering projects at its parent, Google. YouTube said: "Steve shifted his focus to help with some Google engineering projects. He's still involved with YouTube and […]

Telairity has confirmed the appointment of Ben Silva, an IP video industry veteran and award-winning entertainment and media industries executive, to the position of vice president of sales for communications, media and entertainment. Telairity is a supplier of real-time MPEG-4 video compression solutions for broadcasting, backhaul, IPTV, and related markets.

Pace, independent developer of digital TV technologies for the global payTV industry, has appointed Scott Sheldon as Chief Strategy Officer. Sheldon will join the Pace Executive team to drive development of the Group's future strategy in the global market for digital TV technology. Sheldon joins Pace from N M Rothschild & Sons where he was […]

Sky1 has appointed the BBC’s Lucy Lumsden as the satellite channel’s first head of comedy. Lumsden worked with Stuart Murphy, programme director of Sky 1, on many of BBC3’s early comedy successes. ….

Tony Ball, the Chairman of Kabel Deutschland and former Chief Executive of BSkyB, has joined the BT Board as a non-executive director. Between 1999 and 2003 he was Chief Executive of BSkyB plc, where he drove the rapid take up of Sky's digital TV offering. During the past four he has been chair of private […]

BBC Worldwide has appointed Luke Bradley-Jones, the head of its digital operations in the US, as the new managing director of BBC.com. Bradley-Jones, who has held the New York-based role of executive vice-president of digital media and business development for BBC Worldwide for the past two years, replaces Kym Niblock, who is leaving the corporation […]