Virgin Media UK has confirmed the appointment of Jeff Dodds as their new Chief Operating Officer (COO). He will take over the position from Lutz Schüler on June 11th when Schüler steps up to his new role of company CEO. Dodds was appointed Virgin Media’s Chief Customer Officer and Managing Director of Operations in November 2018, […]
Speedcast, a provider of remote communication and IT solutions, has announced that Barrie Woolston has been appointed Senior Vice President of the company’s Media and Broadcast team. In his new role at Speedcast, Woolston will help Broadcasters and Media companies navigate global content distribution and the emerging trend toward IP and cloud-based services using the […]
Liberty Global has announced the appointment of Lutz Schüler as CEO of Virgin Media, the company’s operations in the UK and Ireland, effective June 11th. Schüler joined Virgin Media as Chief Operating Officer in September 2018, after eight years running Liberty Global’s operations in Germany. Tom Mockridge, who has been Virgin Media CEO since Liberty […]
Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings’ pay packet last year topped $36 million (€32.1m), and some 48 per cent up on his 2018 compensation ($24.4 millions). Hastings’ bottom line salary is a mere $700,000, but the overall package is massively benefitted by share options which were worth a $35.3 million last year. Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted […]
‘Shock jock’ radio broadcaster Howard Stern says he is going to retire from pay-radio operator SiriusXM when his contract concludes next year. Stern is a hugely popular shock jock and helped SiriusXM grow dramatically when he joined in 2006, and generated much media buzz over the cash that he has reportedly been earning – at […]
Darren Childs, who announced his intention to step down as CEO of multichannel programmer UKTV in February 2019, is to succeed Mark McCafferty as Chief Executive of Premiership Rugby, the top flight of the Union code in England. McCafferty is to become an advisor to CVC Capital Partners, the private equity firm that has partnered […]
RTL Group has announced the appointment of Marc Puškarić as the new CEO of RTL Croatia, effective July 1st. Puškarić, currently Managing Director of Bertelsmann Brazil Investments and the Bertelsmann Corporate Center in Brazil, will succeed Henning Tewes, who will join Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland as COO Programme Affairs & Multichannel. In his new role, Puškarić […]
Telenor has appointed Bjørn Ivar Moen as the new CEO of Canal Digital and Telenor Broadcast. He will take up his new role as of June 1st. Moen has worked in Telenor since 2000 in different key management roles, most recently as acting CEO of Telenor Norway. Prior to that, he was Chief Marketing Officer […]
Leslie Lee has been named Vice President of Kids Content at Turner, overseeing Cartoon Network, Boomerang and POGO networks in Asia Pacific, and assumes the role effective immediately. Based in Singapore, Lee’s responsibilities includes the programming, operations, brand and franchise management, as well as the content direction for the three brands. Ricky Ow, President of […]
TiVo has announced the election of Laura Durr and Loria Yeadon to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. The new appointments expand the size of the board from seven to nine directors. Laura Durr brings nearly three decades of broad financial expertise at major technology companies in both the public and private markets to the […]