FremantleMedia has announced that Nico Hofmann will take on the role of sole CEO of German film and television production company UFA Group with immediate effect. This move follows a two-year transition-period, announced back in September 2015, in which Wolf Bauer and Hofmann have headed UFA as Co-CEOs. Hofmann will assume overall management responsibilities for […]
Alexander Müller-Gastell has been appointed the new CEO of ND SatCom, effective September 1st. This strategic move is in line with the shareholder vision to further grow the market share of ND SatCom since its acquisition from AIRBUS in 2015. ND SatCom’s advanced technology of reliable meshed VSAT networks form the basis for commercial and […]
ONE Championship, the Asian sports media company, has announced the addition of senior executive Jack Lim to its executive leadership team. Lim joins the company as Chief Commercial Officer of ONE Championship and will be responsible for uniting all of ONE Championship’s existing revenue streams while leading the way for new and exciting growth opportunities. […]
Advanced Television is deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of Sam Blackman, co-founder of Elemental Technologies. He led Elemental Technologies from a start-up before selling it to Amazon in 2015 for $296 million. He stayed on as CEO. The editorial team at Advanced Television always found Blackman to be an enthusiastic and knowledgeable […]
The head of South Korea’s Samsung, Jay Y. Lee, was sentenced to five years custody for bribery in a watershed case for the country’s economic elite, family-run conglomerates. After a six-month trial and a scandal that brought down then president, Park Geun-hye, a court ruled that Lee had paid bribes in anticipation of favours from […]
Singapore media company Mediacorp has announced the appointment of Tham Loke Kheng as its CEO and Board Director, effective September 1st 2017. She will succeed Shaun Seow, who will remain as Executive Director, Mediacorp till September 30th before joining Temasek. Loke Kheng is an industry veteran with extensive media experience, especially in content and marketing. […]
Former president and general manager of WGN America and Tribune Studios Matt Cherniss has jointed Apple to help oversee the development of the company’s video unit. Cherniss will report to Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, the two former Sony executives who joined Apple earlier this year to lead Apple’s video programming efforts on a […]
Roger Lynch, CEO at Charlie Ergen/DISH Network-backed Sling TV, is leaving the broadcaster to take up the President/CEO position at music streaming site Pandora. Lynch has been one of Ergen’s key executives and in July 2012 founding-CEO at OTT service Sling TV. He had worked with Ergen at DISHNetwork and EchoStar. He also spent time […]
Reports out of Israel say that the acting chairman of telco Bezeq, David Granot, has been detained for questioning by Israel’s Police National Fraud Unit over alleged bribery and money laundering. The problems are additional to those already underway which include investigations by the local Securities regulator, and in particular into Bezeq’s controlling shareholder Shaul […]
STV has announced its new chief executive ahead of the departure of Rob Woodward. ITV’s Simon Pitts is expected to take the helm at the Glasgow-based broadcaster in January 2018. Woodward announced in April that he would be leaving the company after ten years to seek “fresh challenges”. Pitts is currently ITV’s managing director of […]