MediaKind, the media technology company, has announced the appointment of Allen Broome as CTO. Broome brings more than 20 years of media technology leadership and software expertise to MediaKind and was previously VP Cloud Engineering at Comcast Cable. As CTO, Broome will play a fundamental role in fostering dynamic industry collaboration, with a goal to […]
WWE has announced the appointment of James Rosenstock as Executive Vice President, International. Rosenstock will be responsible for the management of all international operations and will oversee the company’s eight regional General Managers. He will report directly to WWE Co-President Michelle Wilson and serve as a key member of WWE’s senior leadership team. As head […]
Vionlabs is continuing its growth with the appointment of Kevin Odden to lead its commercial operations in the Americas. The company is also expanding its advisory board with the appointments of Anette Schaefer and Hanno Basse. Vionlabs’ platform provides a step-change in content discovery. Its AI-powered Content Discovery Platform creates a unique fingerprint for each […]
The management team for BritBox, the SVoD service created by UK PSBs the BBC and ITV, has been announced in the run-up to the service’s planned launch in the fourth quarter of 2019. As previously announced, the BritBox management team is led by Reemah Sakaan who has expanded her BritBox US and CA role to […]
Broadcaster, writer and campaigner, June Sarpong MBE has been appointed as the BBC’s Director of Creative Diversity. The BBC says Sarpong will lead a renewed drive to further transform and modernise the BBC and its culture. She will work to increase representation and ensure that BBC content reflects the public it serves. She will take […]
Spain’s fifth largest operator Euskaltel, controlled by UK’s Zegona, is seeking a new president following the news that current president Alberto Garcia Erauzkin will not stand for the post in 2020. The company is looking for a president with “no executive functions” to replace Garcia Erauzkin, who joined Euskaltel in 1998 as a Finance Director […]
John De Mol, one of broadcasting’s most experienced executives, is exiting ITV as part of a restructuring of ITV Studios. De Mol has helmed some of TV’s most successful formats including Big Brother, The Voice, Deal or No Deal, Fear Factor and dozens of others. Four years ago ITV acquired De Mol’s Talpa Media for […]
Testronic, a specialist in quality assurance (QA), localisation services, and compliance for the film, television and games industries, have enhanced their strategic leadership team by appointing Ken Kiers and Ignacio Fernandez to join the business. Due to significant growth across the business strands but in particular the OTT platform testing space, Testronic has added Kiers, […]
The English Premier League has as appointed Guardian Media Group boss David Pemsel as its new chief executive. Bruce Buck, the chairman of Chelsea, said Pemsel had been hired because of his “straightforward style and personal integrity”. Pemsel, 51, has been chief executive of GMG, since July 2015. The company’s main Guardian News & Media […]
ITV Studios has unveiled the reorganisation of its international distribution and commercial business. The new structure will be operational from January 2020 and focuses on “three centres of excellence” which will work closely together and with ITV Studios’ international production business. The three centres are the Creative Network, which will boost creativity across unscripted format […]