Grass Valley has announced the appointment of Tim Thorsteinson as President and CEO, effective immediately. Ideally suited to lead Grass Valley through the next phase of its evolution, Tim 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 […]
Members of online hacktivist group Anonymous have targeted sites related to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) following the suicide of Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder who championed open access to documents on the Internet. Swartz was arrested in July 2011 and accused of stealing four million documents from MIT and Jstor, an archive of […]
Olivier Schramek has been named the new president of media French regulator the CSA by president François Hollande. He will replace the outgoing chief Michel Boyon. Schramek was chief of staff to Lionel Jospin when he became prime minister in 1997. The French government has denied any insinuation that the appointment of Schramek was a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]