Pay-radio service Sirius-XM Radio has announced that CEO Mel Karmazin will be leaving the company on February 1, 2013, following the expiration of his current employment agreement and after a transition period. Karmazin will also leave the Board of Directors at that time. The move comes as John Malone’s Liberty Media is looking to take […]
Joanna Shields, for many years a leading executive at a range of global new media companies, is to leave Facebook, where she is Vice-President and Managing Director Europe, Middle East and Africa, to take up the role of Chief Executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO), set up in April 2011 as part of […]
UK PM David Cameron joined the chorus of criticism of the BBC saying the corporation had “serious questions to answer” about why it in effect changed its story on the reasons why it dropped a Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile abuse allegations. “The developments today are concerning because the BBC has effectively changed its story […]
Cable Europe has confirmed the arrival of Matthias Kurth who is joining its team as Executive Chairman. Kurth will sit on Cable Europe’s Executive Committee which has oversight of the cable industry’s main representational duties in Europe. Kurth recently held the position of President of the German Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), the authority for […]
Rodolphe Belmer has been promoted to managing director of Vivendi-owned Canal Plus Group, putting him in charge of editorial, distribution, commercial and technical activities. Belmer will pilot the company’s pay TV operations, notably paybox Canal Plus, and its newly-launched free DTT nets, D8 and D17. Belmer joined Vivendi in 2001 as head of strategy and […]
Tim Davie, the head of BBC’s director of audio and music and passed over candidate for DG, has been appointed as the new chief executive of BBC Worldwide. The appointment brings an end to John Smith’s 23-year career with the corporation. Davie, a former Pepsi marketer who has been running the BBC’s music division since […]
Cato Halsaa, CEO of Telenor Satellite Broadcasting, has assumed the position of Chairman of the Board of the European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA), taking over from Eric Béranger, former CEO of Astrium Services and now CEO of Astrium Satellites. During its quarterly board meeting, ESOA board representatives formally elected Cato Halsaa as Chairman of the […]
BT has appointed Simon Green, the chief executive of the Boxnation boxing channel, to run its new sports channel. Green, who has previously worked at BSkyB and Setanta, is leaving Boxnation, which launched on TV in the UK in September last year, just weeks after it announced the launch of the UK channel on Sky […]
Former KIT digital executive Fearghal Kelly appointed CEO of Digisoft.tv Move comes in anticipation of record growth in licence sales in 2013. The Board of Directors of Digisoft.tv, a leading global provider of set top box middleware for the cable, satellite, terrestrial and telecommunications industry, have announced the immediate appointment of Fearghal Kelly to the […]
The Board of Directors of Digisoft.tv, a global provider of set top box middleware for the cable, satellite, terrestrial and telecommunications industry, today announced the immediate appointment of Fearghal Kelly to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Fearghal Kelly is an established industry expert with over 18 years at the forefront of the OTT revolution. […]