Ten years after the launch of its Russian edition and in line with its international news ‘hub’ strategy, euronews is opening a permanent office in Moscow and has appointed Alexander Shashkov as news correspondent. Continuing its expansion with the aim providing coverage from the world’s key news areas and following the opening of its offices […]
A New Zealand judge has ordered Kim Dotcom, the founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com, to be held in custody for another month, saying the suspected Internet pirate posed a significant flight risk. Dotcom, a German national also known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, was remanded in custody until February 22nd ahead […]
Andrea Winn has joined Vision IPTV as the Sales Director. Winn’s wide range of expertise include TV platform content and commercial strategy development, broadcast operations, content management, playout and channel development strategies and international channel and platform network distribution.
Virgin Media’s chief executive Neil Berkett has called on the Government to rip up the rules on licensing film and television content and disband the BBC Trust. Berkett warned that content providers will fall behind the pace of change in the way people are watching films and television unless the forthcoming Communications Bill is used […]
HDTV pioneer (and millionaire Dallas Mavericks-owner) Mark Cuban is to revamp his HDNet channel in a joint-venture partnership with the talent agency Creative Artists Agency, radio talk-show host Ryan Seacrest, and sport and music promoters AEG. The ‘new’ channel is AXS TV (pronounced ‘access’) and will go on air in June. More importantly the channel […]
BlackArrow, a global provider of advanced advertising solutions for New TV platforms, has announced a trio of strategic hires that bolsters the company’s multiplatform advertising marketplace expertise and builds upon its accomplished management team. The new appointments are: – Dr. Joseph Matarese, CTO – a senior cable television and telecommunications technology executive, renowned for thought-leadership […]
BlackArrow, a worldwide provider of advanced advertising solutions for New TV platforms, today announced a trio of strategic hires that bolsters the company’s multiplatform advertising marketplace expertise and builds upon its accomplished management team. The new executives bring proven success in on-demand and linear television; social and broadband video; and the advertising and media marketplaces […]
News Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch has issued his most forthright tweet since he activated his Twitter account on January 1st by accusing Internet giant Google of aiding film piracy. “Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts [advertisements] around them,” Murdoch wrote, adding later that film making was “risky as […]
A 23-year old UK student faces extradition to the US to face copyright infringement allegations, a London court has ruled. Richard O’Dwyer’s website, TV Shack, provided links to other websites where users could access content but did not host any of the content itself. O’Dwyer says he started the project to improve his computer programming […]
Since January 1st, 2012, Stefan Philipps, 47, is DEV Systemtechnik’s Area Sales Manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He succeeds Harald Busold, who left the company. Philipps reports to Rainer Lorger, Head of Sales and Marketing. After a vocational training to become an electrician, Philipps studied Electrical Engineering and started his professional career as a […]