The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced the appointment of BT’s Tony Singh as its new Chief Commercial Officer. Singh, who is currently Content and Business Development Director at BT, joins the ECB’s senior management team at Lord’s and will oversee all revenue generation and its key commercial relationships as well as customer-facing […]
Anne Bulford, the BBC’s Deputy Director-General, has decided to leave the Corporation in the spring of 2019 to pursue a portfolio of non-executive roles. BBC Director-General, Tony Hall and the BBC Board thanked her for her work since 2013, which they say has helped transform the BBC and set it up for further success. “Anne […]
Lars Torstensson is to take up position as MTG EVP, Head of Communications & Investor Relations from June 19th. David Boyd has been appointed interim Head of Investor Relations at MTG from January 28th. Jette Nygaard-Andersen, MTG EVP, CEO of MTG International Entertainment & MTG Digital Video Content, has announced he will be leaving MTG […]
A ‘reveal all’ website has been published by pay-TV operator beIN Media Group which it claims publicly exposes what it describes as the “industrial scale theft” of world sports and entertainment carried out by beoutQ – the Saudi Arabia-based pirate TV channel – and Arabsat – the Riyadh-headquartered satellite provider – for the past 18 […]
Tim Davie is the latest person to turn down the chance of becoming the new head of the Premier League. Davie, chief executive of commercial division BBC Studios, has confirmed to his team he is staying in his role. The Premier League is searching for a replacement after Susanna Dinnage pulled a u-turn on the […]
London-based Avanti Communications has a new sales and customer services executive, Libby Barr, as COO/Customer. Barr will also sit on Avanti’s Executive Committee, effective immediately. Barr joins from BT where she was MD/Customer Care. In a newly created role, Barr will report to Group CEO, Kyle Whitehill, and will be responsible for managing the execution […]
Discovery has announced the promotion of veteran lifestyle programmers Loren Ruch, Betsy Ayala and Lynn Sadofsky within its HGTV and Food Network brands. Ruch is promoted to Group SVP of Production & Development for HGTV based in New York, while Ayala is promoted to SVP of Production & Development for HGTV based in Knoxville, both […]
Roku has U-turned on its addition of InfoWars – the right-wing conspiracy channel of Alex Jones. YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and others had all banned the channel but Roku had defended its carriage claiming it did not censor legal content. But after facing widespread criticism Roku has responded by dropping the channel. The California-based company […]
This week, investment bank Exane/BNPP is holding a series of presentations with Spanish industry players, and in a note to clients says that it is now cautiously optimistic on the state of Spanish commercial broadcasters, which it now favours over Italian TV. The bank says: “We like the Spanish TV names and expect them to […]
Howard Lance, CEO at Maxar Technologies, which owns Space Systems/Loral as well as the DigitalGlobe mapping and Earth observation business, is stepping down unexpectedly. He had been in post just 32 months. Maxar has been under extreme pressure these past months because of the downturn in orders from the geostationary sector and had already announced […]