Rupert Murdoch has effectively confirmed son James Murdoch is his choice to take over News Corp. For now, James moves up at Sky to become non-exec chairman, while becoming CEO for News Corp outside the US. Meantime, Rupert Murdoch leaves the board of Sky – where News Corp owns 39 per cent – after 18 […]

Channel Five’s director of programmes, Jay Hunt, is the new controller of BBC1. The former controller of BBC daytime will replace Peter Fincham, who resigned following the “Crowngate” scandal.

Virgin Media's head of strategy is the latest executive to leave the group amid a wider restructuring. Ernie Cormier, its managing director of strategy, would leave in the new year. Steve Stewart, the group's head of customer care, will leave at about the same time. The future of Jacques Kerrest, the group's finance head, also […]

Discovery and Science Channel president and general manager Jane Root is out at the company, Discovery Communications president and CEO David Zaslav confirmed. She is being let her out of her contract effective immediately to return to her native United Kingdom, and Discovery veteran John Ford — who rejoined the company in September after years […]

Ford Ennals, chief executive of Digital UK, the body overseeing the digital switchover, is stepping down. Ennals is leaving to become president of Cole Hann, the footwear and leather-goods division of Nike. The move is a return to the US for Ennals, who was previously a senior vice-president of worldwide marketing at Reebok. Ennals sought […]

Channel 4 has confirmed former Yahoo! executive John Gisby as its first dedicated director of new media and technology. Gisby will be responsible for expanding Channel 4’s presence in online digital media and growing revenue. In the new role, which now incorporates technology, Gisby will report direct to Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan and […]

UDcast, provider of IP over broadcast and satellite, has announced that David Richardson has joined the company as vice president of corporate and business development. Richardson was previously the Director of Business Development for NDS in North America.

John Pluthero will assume management control of both the international and the Europe, Asia and US divisions of Cable & Wireless following the departure of Harris Jones, the international chief executive, this week. Richard Lapthone, group chairman, said Pluthero was the ideal choice to oversee the division now that the recovery phase in the Europe, […]

Modern Times Group has announced a number of new senior management appointments and the reorganization of its Central Eastern European operations. Manfred Aronsson has been appointed as CEO of MTG Sweden and Anders Nilsson as Co-Chief Operating Officer of MTG. Ulrik Bengtsson has been appointed as CEO of Pay-TV Emerging Markets, and Laurence Miall-d’Aout as […]

Dick Parsons is to step down as chief executive of media giant Time Warner. Parsons will be replaced by Jeff Bewkes, the company’s president and chief operating officer, on January 1st next year. Bewkes had been chief executive at HBO where he was credited with building it into a profit driver for the company with […]