httv, the France and Singapore based solutions provider for digital TV, has announced the appointment of Régis Saint Girons as httv’s Chief Executive Officer. Saint Girons has been a central figure in the middleware and digital TV industry for over 20 years. He has previously served as Senior Vice President OpenTV for NAGRA, a Kudelski […]
Lis Murdoch has used her turn at the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival to claim that profit for its own sake without a moral agenda is dangerous.”It is increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose — or of a moral language — within government, media, or business, could become one of the […]
Jonathan Miller, chief digital officer of News Corp, is leaving the company at the end of September. The announcement comes as News Corp prepares to split off its newspaper and publishing businesses into a separate company from its TV and movie assets. Miller, formerly chief executive of AOL, joined News Corp in April 2009. He […]
ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), has announced that controversial (former?) England star batsman Kevin Pietersen will be a part of ESPN STAR Sports’ presentation and analysis team for ICC World Twenty20 to be played in Sri Lanka. Pietersen will play an important role in the publicity and promotion of ESS’s broadcast of ICC World Twenty20. This […]
Some two weeks after broadcast networks, led by Fox, filed lawsuits against streaming site BarryDriller.com alleging copyright and trademark infringement, media mogul and IAC chairman Barry Diller – backer of the Aereo TV streaming service – has filed a lawsuit in California federal court against site creator Alki David for violating publicity rights and false […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]