News Corp Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey has suggested that the debate surrounding proposed anti-piracy legislation became twisted as media companies failed to see what he described as the “viral aspect” to the issue. “Clearly this got turned upside down, the whole issue,” Carey said at the ‘Dive Into Media’ conference hosted by website All […]
As expected, Sony Corp has appointed Kazuo Hirai as its next president and CEO. Current Executive Chairman Sir Howard Stringer stays in post until June when he will move upstairs to become Chairman of Sony’s board. Hirai is 51 years-old, and is credited with the success of Sony’s PlayStation videogame system. Hirai will officially take […]
Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director general, has signalled to senior colleagues that he is ready to step down, with insiders believing he will quit at the end of 2012 or early in 2013, at the end of the broadcaster’s Olympic year. Britain’s most powerful television executive has not given an exact timetable for his departure, […]
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 […]