People

People Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

ThinkAnalytics names Lat-Am sales chief

Search and recommendation specialist ThinkAnalytics has named Rick Schiavinato as Vice President of Sales and…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Teo names new business development chief

TeliaSonera-owned Lithuanian service provider Teo has named Mantas Goštautas as to the new position of…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Former Canal+ chief Belmer joining France Televisions

Rodolphe Belmer, dismissed as Canal+ chief executive, has been hired by the new director-general of…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

MTG cutting 300 jobs

European broadcaster Modern Times Group is to axe around 300 jobs as it launches a…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Scripps Networks Interactive ups two senior execs

Scripps Networks Interactive has promoted two of its senior management team, following the announcement last…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Sky Germany promotes Steuer to head of sports

Sky in Germany has upped the head of its Sky Sport News HD channel, Roman…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Scripps veteran retires

Brooke Johnson is to retire from her post as president of Scripps Networks Interactive’s lifestyle…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

A+E revamps international marketing team

A+E Networks has added three new roles to its international marketing team. The programmer has…

People Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Conax appoints head of services

TV security specialist Conax has appointed Oliver Bernau, formerly an executive at Nordic IT company…

People Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

SeaChange makes senior hires

TV technology provider SeaChange has created two new senior posts, naming Paul Crann as senior vice-president…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 2 min read

Discovery restructures US nets as Ross rises

Discovery Communications has placed Rich Ross into a networks group president role as it realigns…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

New chief executive for TDC

Danish telco TDC has named Pernille Erenbjerg as its new CEO, taking over from existing…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Al Jazeera names AJ+ chief

Qatar-based Al Jazeera has named Dima Khatib as managing director of its digital-only news platform…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Akado makes senior appointments

Russia service provider Komkor, which operates under the Akado Telecom brand in the Moscow region,…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

TeliaSonera makes senior regulatory appointment

Nordic service provider TeliaSonera has named Lithuanian subsidiary Teo’s head of legal affairs and IT…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Discovery hires Nat Geo’s Sayer

Discovery Networks International has poached factual production veteran Ed Sayer to join Phil Craig’s new…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Turner hires Viacom’s Brookman for UK

Turner Broadcasting System poached Viacom International Media Networks’s Vanessa Brookman to become VP, content and…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 2 min read

A+E Networks UK hires RTL exec for COO post

Dean Possenniskie’s first major moves since taking over at A+E Networks UK are the appointment…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Sky Germany appoints new finance chief

Sky in Germany has upped deputy chief financial officer, Simon Robson, to the CFO role….

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Liberty Global names Telenet’s Smidts as marketing chief

Liberty Global has named Inge Smidts as chief marketing officer. Smidts was previously SVP of…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

BT’s Green moves to Amazon Prime Instant Video

Amazon Prime Instant Video has hired BT’s director of TV, Alex Green, to become managing…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Vodafone dismissed Portela unfairly, says Spanish court

  A Spanish court has ruled that Vodafone’s dismissal of former Ono CEO Rosalía Portela…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 2 min read

Discovery forms partnership with Doğuş for major Turkish expansion

Discovery Communications has agreed a strategic relationship with Turkey’s Doğuş Media Group to increase its portfolio…

People Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

PayWizard secures funding, names Burke as chairman

  TV subscriber management systems provider PayWizard has secured £3.5 million in funding from the…

People Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Rightster names product chief

Multichannel network Rightster has named Shiv Bhaduri as chief product officer. Bhaduri, who has worked…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Discovery’s Bartlett to quit

Discovery Studios boss Lee Bartlett is leaving the company. Bartlett has been at Discovery for…

Broadcasters Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

LCI chief Revel leaves

Eric Revel, the CEO of TF1-owned French news channel LCI, has left the group to…

People Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Switchover alumnus joins independent producer

Giuliano Tranquili has reunited with Switchover Media co-founder Francesco Nespega at Italian indie producer Stand…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

Telenet audit committee chief resigns from board

Stefan Descheemaeker has resigned his role as independent director of Liberty Global-owned Belgian cable operator…

Pay TV Operators Stay Updated Icon 1 min read

New HEVC patent pool outlines royalty pricing, names CEO

HEVC Advance, the new patent pool for intellectual property rights holders that have contributed to…