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Four more board resignations at SABC

The problems at South Africa’s public broadcaster SABC continue. The country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has reportedly accepted the resignations of four SABC board members. The president wrote to parliament on Friday to say he had accepted the resignations of John Matisonn, Krish Naidoo, Khanyisile Kweyama and Mathatha Tsedu. He asked the country’s national assembly to […]

December 10, 2018By Chris Forrester

Independent Sky News Editorial Board established

Sky has entered into legally binding commitments with Comcast Corporation that guarantee the continued operation and long term funding of an editorially-independent Sky News. These commitments extend the Post Offer Undertakings given by Sky and Comcast in May 2018 in which they committed to maintaining inflation-adjusted funding in Sky News, to maintain Sky’s HQ in […]

December 6, 2018

Buckridge new YouView CEO

YouView has appointed Susie Buckridge as its new CEO following the departure of long-serving CEO Richard Halton. Buckridge was director of product. YouView, which is backed by the UK’s PSBs and transmission services provider Arqiva as well as telcos BT and TalkTalk, is used principally as the platform for TV services by the latter two […]

December 5, 2018

Cultivating the creative: how Governments can effectively support TV, film and beyond

The international film and television landscape has grown rapidly in recent years, helped in no small part by the growing support of global governments, writes Zoe Guilford The creative industries generate approximately £92bn annually to the United Kingdom’s economy, with jobs and exports growing year on year. The UK is a global leader in this […]

December 1, 2018

Freesat expands leadership team

Freesat has has announced the addition of Martin Hughes, Andre Santos and Mahshid Hadavinia to its senior leadership team. As Freesat’s new Director of Technology, Hughes has an extensive background in technology, software and computing.  At Freesat he will be responsible for leading the technology team and oversees the engineering, product and operations functions, as […]

November 29, 2018

Heimbecher joins Imagine from Sky Deutschland

Imagine Communications has appointed Stephan Heimbecher as its new international director of consulting services, based out of Munich, Germany. Heimbecher joins Imagine Communications from Sky Deutschland, where he spent the last 16 years at the helm of innovation and standards for the German media company. In his new role at Imagine Communications, Heimbecher will lead […]

November 28, 2018

Greek TV and radio journalists strike

Greek journalists working on TV and radio programmes went on strike for 24 hours on November 27th in support for a national general walk-out. Newspapers will not be published today, November 28th, the day of the general strike. Greek labour unions are demanding an end to Greece’s long-running austerity programme. Union demands include pension increases, […]

November 28, 2018By Chris Forrester

Discovery’s GolfTV signs up Tiger Woods

GolfTV, the upcoming streaming service from Discovery, has signed up Tiger Woods to a multi-year global relationship. A statement from Discovery said the two will collaborate on a “wide range of programming, content creation and storytelling opportunities” that will help fill out the library for the on-demand and live gold matches. Discovery earlier this year […]

November 28, 2018By Chris Forrester

LG organisational changes

LG Electronics has announced key changes to its organisation in an effort to enhance its strengths and more vigorously address the challenges ahead. In addition to leadership changes, LG is also focusing on structural changes. Brian Kwon, currently president of LG’s Home Entertainment Company, will also assume leadership of the Mobile Communications (MC) Company. Mr. […]

November 28, 2018

OSN: Tillieux replaces SKY-bound Stewart

Patrick Tillieux has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Middle East pay-TV operator OSN, effective immediately. He replaces Martin Stewart, who is leaving to take up a similar role at SKY Television in New Zealand. Tillieux has been on OSN’s Board for two years and is the chairman of the executive committee of the […]

November 26, 2018By Colin Mann