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Lord Sugar paid £500,000 by YouView

Lord Sugar was paid £500,000 (€615,000) to chair YouView, as staff costs totalled over £3 million. YouView – a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT, Arqiva and TalkTalk – paid Sugar £500,000 for the year to the end of March 2012, according to its financial filing at Companies House. The […]

January 8, 2013

Adap.tv appoints Yahoo’s Morse as CFO

Adap.tv, the programmatic video advertising comapny, has appointed Timothy R. Morse to the newly created position of Chief Financial Officer. Morse joins Adap.tv from Yahoo, where he held the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer positions from June 2009 to October 2012. As CFO of Adap.tv, Morse will be globally responsible for finance, M&A […]

January 7, 2013

EchoStar appoints de Bastos as CTO

EchoStar, the global satellite services provider, has announced that SiriusXM Radio veteran executive Derek de Bastos has joined EchoStar Satellite Services, LLC, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corp., as Chief Technology Officer. de Bastos will be responsible for the procurement, technical direction, and technical operations for EchoStar’s satellite fleet and will manage a growing team responsible […]

January 6, 2013

Kilar quits Hulu

The surprising news emerged late January 4th that Jason Kilar, the CEO of studio-backed Internet streaming service Hulu – the US joint venture of Disney, Fox Broadcasting and NBCUniversal -is step down from his role. Rich Tom, Hulu’s CTO, is also leaving the company. In a blog, Kilar wrote: “Earlier today, I sent the below […]

January 4, 2013

Sullivan stays at Sky-D

Amid reports that his near-namesake Gerry O’Sullivan – Deutsche Telekom’s SVP Global TV and Entertainment – is to leave his role, pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland has announced it has reached an agreement to extend the contract of Chief Executive Officer Brian Sullivan through December 2014. Sullivan said that being part of the Sky Deutschland team […]

December 28, 2012By Colin Mann

Karmazin out early at Sirius XM

Sirius XM Radio has appointed James E. Meyer as its interim chief executive officer as Mel Karmazin steps down from the top spot earlier than expected. Meyer has been Sirius’s president of operations and sales since 2004, and will serve as CEO while the company, which is in the midst of a takeover by Liberty […]

December 20, 2012

Amino 2013 pay-TV predictions

Amino Communications Chief Technologist Kevin Lingley has revealed his thoughts about the five most significant developments in the pay-TV market for 2013. In his latest blog, Lingley predicts: – Google will enter the Pay TV market directly through acquisition: Google TV has suffered some resistance from traditional Pay TV operators and content owners. In the […]

December 20, 2012

Chellomedia senior management changes

Niall Curran, President of Chellomedia, has announced changes in the senior management team to oversee the next phase of the company’s growth. Simon Freer, former Global Head of TMT at 3i Group PLC, has joined Chellomedia as Chief Commercial Officer. In addition to overseeing revenue growth in the existing portfolio of 66 channels, Freer will […]

December 17, 2012

Akamai makes Leighton CEO

Akamai Technologies has announced that the Board of Directors has elected company Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Tom Leighton to become CEO of Akamai effective January 1st 2013. He will succeed Paul Sagan who announced earlier this year that he intended to step down as chief executive by the end of 2013. Leighton and Sagan will […]

December 17, 2012

SeaChange appoints Kajos

SeaChange has appointed video and software engineering veteran George Kajos as General Manager for its Platform business unit.  Kajos, reporting to SeaChange Chief Executive Officer Raghu Rau, heads the product development organisation that produces the SeaChange Adrenalin video platform, the SeaChange Nitro subscriber experience and other multi-screen software products chosen by video service providers worldwide. […]

December 13, 2012