Jan David Frouman, Chairman & CEO of Red Arrow Studios, and a member of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE’s Executive Board, is leaving both posts when his current contract concludes at the end of February 2019. After 15 years with ProSiebenSat.1. Frouman will be succeeded by James Baker, who has been appointed President & COO of Red […]
Comcast announced its results to September 30th and they showed why it saw it as vital to secure its $40 billion Sky deal. The world’s biggest cableco lost another 106,000 video customers in the three months ending September. So far in 2018, Comcast has shed 342,000 cable TV subscribers, up from 118,000 in the same […]
The Isle of Media – the public, private partnership launched to market globally the Isle of Man’s media cluster and guide media ventures locating on the Isle of Man – is adding three world-class media professionals to its Advisory Panel. The Panel drives the direction and strategy of the Isle of Man media hub and helps […]
BT Group has announced the appointment of Philip Jansen as Chief Executive. He will join the Company and be appointed to the Board as an Executive Director on January 1st 2019 and following a handover period will take over from Gavin Patterson as Chief Executive on February 1st 2019. Jansen joins from Worldpay, the global […]
The UK parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has published its Report into the BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2017/18: Equal Pay at the BBC. It finds that: BBC is failing to live up to its duty under the Equality Act to advance equal opportunity for women Evidence suggests women working at the BBC […]
Anevia, a provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, has appoined François Le Crom as Vice President of Research and Development. In this role, he will be responsible for leading and growing Anevia’s R&D teams and providing the technical vision for the company’s mid- and long-term strategic roadmap. He will drive the transition to a new […]
Amazon Studios has promoted James Farrell, who was the head of content for international expansion to the newly-created position of head of international originals, effective immediately. Farrell will now lead all of Amazon’s international original production divisions in Japan, India, Europe, Mexico, Brazil, as well as in all future Amazon hubs. “We’ve had significant success in […]
Lachlan Murdoch, the Chairman and CEO of FOX, the company to be spun-off in connection with 21st Century Fox’s (21CF) merger with The Walt Disney Company, has announced that AMC’s President and General Manager Charlie Collier has been appointed as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer of Entertainment. In this role, Collier will oversee the Fox […]
Facebook has hired Sir Nick Clegg, the former UK deputy prime minister, as its head of global policy and communications. Clegg will join Facebook as it struggles with mounting political pressure over fake news, data protection and the threat of government regulation. Clegg will move to Silicon Valley in January. He will succeed Elliot Schrage, […]
Harmonic has expanded the company’s board of directors with the appointment of Deborah Clifford. Clifford currently serves as the vice president of financial planning and analysis at Autodesk, a 3D design, engineering and entertainment software company. Most recently, she has been a lead architect of Autodesk’s transformation from selling perpetual licences to becoming a SaaS […]