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Labour: “Break up Murdoch UK”

Labour’s deputy leader has called on all political parties to work together to legislate for the break-up of the Murdoch family’s media empire in the UK on the eve of a keynote speech from Rupert’s daughter Elisabeth at the Edinburgh International Television festival. Harriet Harman, declaring that “the age of deference to the Murdochs is […]

August 23, 2012

EMEA expansion for MobiTV

MobiTV, the global enabler of delivery of live and on-demand TV Everywhere, has revealed that it is to expand its EMEA operations to London as part of its continuing growth in the region. The new hub will be managed and operated by MobiTV Co-founder and President Paul Scanlan. “Since the company’s start over ten years […]

August 23, 2012By Colin Mann

Hunt: UK Internet fastest in Europe by 2015

The UK will have the fastest broadband of any major European country by 2015, according to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. In a speech at Google’s Campus building in London, he reiterated that he wanted to bring high-speed broadband – which he defined as greater than 24 Megabits per second – to more than 90 per […]

August 21, 2012

Vivendi reshuffles top management

France’s Vivendi has reshuffled its board, appointing Jean-Yves Charlier as head of telecoms and giving the chairman of pay-TV channel Canal +, Bertrand Meheut, the task of reviewing its media and content activities. Charlier will take the telecoms job in October after quitting as head of interactive learning company Promethean and leaving the supervisory board […]

August 21, 2012

Leak: Kilar leaving Hulu?

An internal memo from Hulu purportedly obtained by show business trade paper Variety indicates that the company’s CEO Jason Kilar may be on his way out. The three-page memo is said to cover “a range of sensitive issues pertaining to how two of Hulu’s parent companies, News Corp. and Disney, plan to transform the streaming […]

August 20, 2012

A+E Networks appoints Davis VP of Commercial Operations

Factual entertainment broadcaster A+E Networks UK, a joint venture between A+E Networks and BSkyB, has appointed Bakori Davis in the newly created role as VP of Commercial Operations. Davis, who joins the company from Viacom Media Networks, will be responsible for all linear and non-linear channel distribution within the UK, Ireland, Central and Eastern Europe, […]

August 20, 2012

BBC’s Thompson to head New York Times

The New York Times Company has named Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC as its new president and chief executive. The company has been seeking a candidate with experience in the digital world and across multiple platforms since Janet Robinson left in December 2011. Thompson will join the company in November. In […]

August 15, 2012By Colin Mann

NYT goes outside the box for CEO

The privately owned New York Times has appointed BBC DG Mark Thompson as the President and CEO to lead them to the digital age. It is the kind of ‘outside the box’ thinking only a private company can try; no public company would reach so far from ‘the norm’. For, while Thompson may come from […]

August 15, 2012

FilmFlex passes 75m movie buys

FilmFlex Movies has appointed Jonathan Steel to the role of Chief Technical Officer, Nazneen Hassam as Chief Alliance Officer and Hayden Punter as Finance Director as the company eclipses 75 million movie buys from over 5,000 film titles since the company’s inception in 2005. As Chief Technical Officer, Jonathan will play a critical role, responsible […]

August 14, 2012

will.i.am headlines IBC

IBC have revealed that international recording artist, technologist, entrepreneur, will.i.am, has ‘chosen the IBC2012 Conference as a key platform to inspire the world’s electronic media professionals.’ Co-hosted by Intel Corporation’s Johan Jervøe, will.i.a.m will lead the IBC2012 Convention keynote. Titled ’Creativity and Technology Forces Combine – Transcend the Barriers of Convention and Rethink What Can […]

August 8, 2012