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 Newspapers will not be published today, November 28th, the day of the general strike.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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Supponor, a global player in sports virtual advertising technology, has announced two appointments to its senior leadership team. These key new hires will help scale the company to meet the increasing demands for virtual advertising, and deliver a raft of new solutions in the coming months. Ross Hair joins Supponor as Managing Director and will […]
Tthe Board of Telia Lietuva has elected Emil Nilsson as the Chairman of the Board and the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of Telia Lietuva for the current term of the Board, i.e. till April 27th 2019. Nilsson is Senior Vice President & Head of cluster Lithuania, Estonia and Denmark (LED) and Region Eurasia at […]
RTL Group has announced changes to the executive management team of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland. After more than 13 years as CEO of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland and over 27 years with RTL, Anke Schäferkordt will leave RTL Group, effective December 31st 2018. RTL Group and Schäferkordt have jointly decided, with mutual consent and under the best […]
Airbeem, the OTT content distribution platform, has announced that Steve Plunkett has joined its Board of Directors to advise the company on its technical growth and strategy. Airbeem has also appointed Tim Clement to the role of VP Sales Most recently, Plunkett was the CTO at Ericsson Broadcast & Media, formerly Red Bee Media, where […]
SpotX, the global video advertising and monetisation platform, is further growing its team in the Nordics with the appointment of Annelie Jegefalk as Supply Operations Manager. Bringing six years of digital advertising experience from Discovery, Jegefalk will work with publishers and broadcasters across the Nordics to develop their video advertising strategies. This will include offering […]
Global sports provider Eleven Sports has announced that Anouk Mertens will become Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Eleven Sports Group. Mertens has served as Managing Director of Eleven Sports in Belgium and Luxembourg since October 2015, turning the business profitable in under three years and achieving 100 per cent household distribution across the market. […]