Goonhilly Earth Station has announced the appointment of Bob Gough as Head of Business Development, Australia and Asia-Pacific. Based in Australia, Gough’s role is to spearhead commercial expansion for Goonhilly across the region, develop new business opportunities and grow Goonhilly’s customer base. Gough’s appointment comes just days after the July 1st establishment of the Australian […]
Friend MTS, the content and revenue protection specialist, has appointed Simon Williamson as Chief Commercial Officer to drive global business growth. Williamson’s key priorities are to support Friend MTS’s fast-growing business in North America and APAC, and to strengthen further the company’s position in content protection against streaming piracy. His responsibilities include worldwide sales, marketing […]
Jeremy Wright, previously Attorney General in the UK Government, has been appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, replacing Matt Hancock as part of a reshuffle by Prime Minister Theresa May following the resignation of two senior members of her Cabinet after disagreement over her handling of the Brexit negotiations. Hancock has […]
The UK television industry – and by extension the whole digital media, tech and creative industries – need a hard hat as Brexit approaches. This is because the consequences that will rain down from a hard Brexit will be excrement of the toughest variety, polished or not. To try and avoid a hard Brexit for […]
Sam Chisholm, the renowned TV executive who steered Sky into the big time, passed away this week in Sydney. The New Zealand-born executive spent more than four decades working in media, including 15 years as boss of the Nine Network. He was appointed chief executive and managing director in 1975, aged just 35, before returning […]
TiVo has announced that Raghu Rau, a member of TiVo’s Board of Directors, has been named interim President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. The appointment follows Enrique Rodriguez’s personal decision to resign from his role as TiVo’s President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors to assume a position as […]
fuboTV, the sports-first live streaming TV service in the US, has added AppNexus veteran Geir Magnusson Jr. to its management team as chief technology officer. Magnusson is based in fuboTV’s New York City headquarters and reports directly to David Gandler, co-founder and chief executive officer. Magnusson’s appointment is the latest news for fuboTV, which earlier […]
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has lost his latest court battle against extradition from New Zealand to the US. New Zealand’s Court of Appeal upheld the decision that Dotcom, founder of the controversial file-sharing website Megaupload, along with three others can be extradited to stand trial for copyright infringement. Megaupload allowed millions of people to share and […]
Apple has hired former BBC Films chief Joe Oppenheimer. He is joining the company as a creative executive on the international creative development team based in London, reporting to Jay Hunt, creative director, Europe, the former Channel programming boss who joined in January. Oppenheimer will work with Hunt to source programming internationally. Oppenheimer was most […]
BBC Director General Tony Hall has been elected as the new President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Delphine Ernotte Cunci, Chief Executive Officer of France Télévisions, will serve as Vice-President. Both were elected by absolute majority at the EBU’s 80th General Assembly in Tirana and will take up the new roles from January 1st […]