Paul Luckey, founder of Oculus and its VR headset, has left Facebook, which owns Oculus. Oculus recently lost a $500 million (€468m) court case against media firm Zenimax which said it stole trade secrets. Facebook and Oculus have appealed against the damages award. Facebook said that his “inventive spirit” helped to “kickstart” recent interest in VR […]
Arianespace has been restructured into a simplified ‘joint-stock’ company complete with a revision of the rocket launcher’s governance, operational and legal structure. The move comes some three months after Airbus-Safran Launchers invested into Arianespace, and as a result now controls 74 per cent of the its share structure. Stephane Israel, CEO of Arianespace SAS and CEO […]
Phillip Davies, Head of Content Protection and Cybersecurity, Sky, and Mark Mulready, Senior Director Cybersecurity and Anti-Piracy, Irdeto, have been elected to the roles of Vice President of the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) from April 1st. They succeed Michael Barley of Sky and Christine Maury-Panis from Viaccess-Orca who have held the positions since AAPA – […]
Comcast Cable has appointed Euan McLeod as Vice President, IP Video Engineering. McLeod joins Comcast from Amazon, where he served as Global Head of Video. He will report to Jason Press, Senior Vice President, Video Engineering and Operations for Comcast Cable. McLeod will lead Comcast VIPER (Video IP Engineering & Research), the engineering team that […]
AMC Networks International (AMCNI), a subsidiary of AMC Networks, has appointed Géraud Alazard as Senior Vice President of Marketing. Promoted from the position of Vice President of Marketing for AMC Global and SundanceTV Global, Alazard now has responsibility for all AMCNI portfolio brands including AMC Global, SundanceTV Global and locally recognized channels in various programming […]
Part of Ericsson’s restructuring may see it pull it out of media services, as a new streamlining strategy from CEO Börje Ekholm sees it refocus on three segments: networks, digital services and the Internet of Things (IoT). According to reports the company’s Managed Services arm will be shaken up to focus on automation, but its media and […]
Friend MTS, a specialist in online anti-piracy systems, has boosted its international professional services team with the appointment of Simon Hanna as Senior Solutions Architect. Hanna is a specialist in video delivery platforms for pay-TV and OTT operators, with more than 20 years’ experience working with major video entertainment operators and primary vendors in the […]
AMC Studios has announced the further expansion of its executive team with Mark Dee-Shapland joining as Head of Content Sales. In this newly-created role, Dee-Shapland is responsible for worldwide content sales initiatives of all off-network distribution of AMC Networks owned programming. “Mark will be an important addition to our sales team, headed by Valerie Cabrera, […]
The BBC has announced its appointments to the unitary Board which will replace the two-tier structure of the BBC Trust and the BBC’s Executive Board as the Corporation’s governing body from 3 April 2017. The five non-executive directors are Simon Burke, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Ian Hargreaves, Tom Ilube and Nicholas Serota. Sir David Clementi, Chairman of […]
Bob Iger will remain as CEO of The Walt Disney Company until July 2019 as the entertainment giant’s struggle to find a successor continues. It marks the third occasion Iger has extended his contract. Iger, 66, was due to step down as CEO next year, but told investors last month that he was open to […]