Broadcaster, writer and campaigner, June Sarpong MBE has been appointed as the BBC’s Director of Creative Diversity. The BBC says Sarpong will lead a renewed drive to further transform and modernise the BBC and its culture. She will work to increase representation and ensure that BBC content reflects the public it serves. She will take […]
Spain’s fifth largest operator Euskaltel, controlled by UK’s Zegona, is seeking a new president following the news that current president Alberto Garcia Erauzkin will not stand for the post in 2020. The company is looking for a president with “no executive functions” to replace Garcia Erauzkin, who joined Euskaltel in 1998 as a Finance Director […]
John De Mol, one of broadcasting’s most experienced executives, is exiting ITV as part of a restructuring of ITV Studios. De Mol has helmed some of TV’s most successful formats including Big Brother, The Voice, Deal or No Deal, Fear Factor and dozens of others. Four years ago ITV acquired De Mol’s Talpa Media for […]
Testronic, a specialist in quality assurance (QA), localisation services, and compliance for the film, television and games industries, have enhanced their strategic leadership team by appointing Ken Kiers and Ignacio Fernandez to join the business. Due to significant growth across the business strands but in particular the OTT platform testing space, Testronic has added Kiers, […]
The English Premier League has as appointed Guardian Media Group boss David Pemsel as its new chief executive. Bruce Buck, the chairman of Chelsea, said Pemsel had been hired because of his “straightforward style and personal integrity”. Pemsel, 51, has been chief executive of GMG, since July 2015. The company’s main Guardian News & Media […]
ITV Studios has unveiled the reorganisation of its international distribution and commercial business. The new structure will be operational from January 2020 and focuses on “three centres of excellence” which will work closely together and with ITV Studios’ international production business. The three centres are the Creative Network, which will boost creativity across unscripted format […]
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has announced the appointment of Maria Kyriacou to head its pan-regional operations managed out of the UK. As President for VIMN UK, Northern and Eastern Europe, she will have oversight of all its media networks and related businesses in 33 European countries, including Channel 5 in the UK. Kyriacou, who […]
The Supervisory Board of KPN has announced the appointment of Joost Farwerck as the next CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management of KPN, subject to Works Council advice. The news follows the announcement that the Dutch telco would be cancelling the appointment of Dominique Leroy due to a police investigation into shares sales. […]
Dutch telco KPN has confirmed it will no longer appoint Dominique Leroy as its next chief executive. She was set to start her new role on December 1st, however she is under investigation for her sale of shares in Proximus, the company she was leaving. KPN said in a statement that it “regrets to announce […]
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and its global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), have announced that Tom Adams, executive vice president, Field Operations for Charter Communications, has been elected as chairman of the SCTE•ISBE board for the 2019-’20 term. At a meeting in conjunction with SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo 2019, the […]