Morten Tengs has won the top job at Telenor’s Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) division. Tengs (51) will replace Cato Halsa who is to retire this summer. Tengs has been looking after TSBc’s regional office in Asia. “Morten Tengs will be starting in his new role this summer. His broad experience and competence from executive positions in […]
Teams of lawyers are always on the look-out for potential easy money from breaches of this or that rule in a company’s obligations. One enterprising Madison Avenue, New York, law firm, Harwood Feffer LLP says it is investigating whether EchoStar Corp “has breached its fiduciary duties” to shareholders. The action is supported by the USA’s […]
Modern Times Group (MTG) the international entertainment broadcasting group, has announced the appointment of Rikard Steiber to the new role of Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer and the promotion of Matthew Hooper to the new role of Executive Vice President of Group Corporate Communications. MTG has also announced the appointment of Richard Beeston […]
Levira’s Media Services Division has a new member, Raul Aav, who is responsible for launching and developing new projects and for technical support for media services. He has long experience from a number of large international media groups. “I am very pleased that Raul agreed to join our team,” comments Indrek Lepp, Division Director of […]
The UK’s Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey, speaking at the Oxford Media Convention, said that BSkyB should stop charging the UK’s public broadcasters for access to Sky’s viewers. BSkyB charges the BBC, commercial broadcaster ITV, and Channel’s 4 and Five, a ‘technical fee’ for access to its set-top boxes, and use of Red Button interactive technology. […]
Kim Dotcom, the founder of closed-down file-sharing site Megaupload, has launched a new website – Mega – which promises ‘military-grade’ encryption and which Dotcom insists will operate legally and is not setting out to affront the Hollywood studios or the US government. Dotcom, who revealed plans for the new service at the beginning of November […]
The Oprah Winfrey interview with cyclist Lance Armstrong generated 3.1 million US viewers to the full telecast, a record for OWN, the Winfrey-fronted channel (and totalled 4.3m with a later repeat), plus millions more around the world. OWN charged $100,000 per 30-second advert during the commercial breaks, a huge premium on the channel’s normal rate-card […]
The Royal Television Society, the forum for television and related media, has announced the appointment of Theresa Wise as Chief Executive. Wise has twenty five years’ experience working across the television, broader media and technology sectors. At The Walt Disney Company, she was Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy for EMEA. Wise joined Disney from Accenture […]
ProSiebenSat.1 Group has confirmed the appointment of Ralf Schremper to CFO Digital with effect from February. Schremper will take on this new position in addition to his two functions as Executive VP of Strategic Planning/Mergers & Acquisitions and as CFO and Managing Director of Red Arrow Entertainment Group. Schremper replaces the departing Ralf Gierig.
Grass Valley has announced the appointment of Tim Thorsteinson as President and CEO, effective immediately. Thorsteinson has held numerous senior roles in the broadcast technology industry, including the President and CEO of Grass Valley, President of the Broadcast Communications division of Harris Corp., and President and CEO of Leitch. Most recently Tim was President and […]