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Rovi names head of new discovery unit
Interactive TV technology provider Rovi has named Omar Javaid as senior vice-president of discovery. As…
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Liberty Global strategy exec moves to Repucom
Liberty Global corporate development and strategy executive, Spencer Nolan, has left the firm to become…
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BBC names Mistry as non-exec director
The BBC has named Dharmash Mistry to its Executive Board as part of its move…
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KPN names new finance chief
Dutch telco KPN has named Jan Kees de Jager as its new chief financial officer…
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Xbox Entertainment Studios to close as 18,000 jobs go
Microsoft’s original video division Xbox Entertainment Studios is to close as part of an 18,000-job…
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Ziggo CTO Paul Hendriks to step down
Ziggo’s chief technology officer Paul Hendriks is due to step down on September 1, after…
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Discovery hires BBC business boss
Discovery Networks Western Europe has poached Dominic Coles, the BBC’s business operations boss, to become…
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Sky Deutschland names business solutions vice-president
Sky Deutschland has appointed Paul Sexton-Chadwick, who previously worked at Sky subsidiary The Cloud WiFi,…
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Eutelsat appoints new CTO
Satellite operator Eutelsat Communications has upped its director of engineering, Yohann Leroy, to chief technology…
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BBC hires director of audiences
The BBC has appointed Nick North, an executive at market research firm GfK, as its…
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Scripps appoints multi-platform video exec
Scripps Networks Interactive has upped former NBC Universal exec and existing Scripps staffer, Sameer Deen,…
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Netia appoints new managing director
Netia, the Globecast-owned software solutions firm specialising in delivery of audio-visual content, has appointed Eptica…
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MTS TV chief quits
Russian service provider MTS’s director of fixed-line business and TV Dmitry Bagdasaryan has left the…
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BAFTA appoints BBC Academy director as new chair
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has appointed BBC Academy director Anne…
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Professor Brian Cox to keynote IBC
Broadcaster and physicist Professor Brian Cox is due to give a keynote address at the…
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Telekom Austria taps Vipnet for new technology chief
Telekom Austria has named Mladen Pejkovic as chief technology development officer. Pejkovic is currently CEO…
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Stanley takes on digital role at Warner Bros
Warner Bros Home Entertainment UK, Ireland, Spain and Nordics home entertainment group chief John Stanley…
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Turner names Africa entertainment channels chief
Turner Broadcasting System has appointed Gulliermo Farré to the new role of head of general entertainment…
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Vodafone Germany extends CEO’s run
Vodafone Germany has extended the tenure of current CEO Jens Schulte-Bockum for a further three…
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Paul Jackson joins Videojug, targets Buzzfeed and Vice
Ex-Eyeworks, BBC and ITV executive Paul Jackson has taken a consultancy role at Videojug as…
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Irdeto names sales and marketing chief
Content security specialist Irdeto has named Richard Scott as senior vice-president of sales and marketing. …
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BBC ups R&D controller to chief technology officer
The BBC has appointed controller of research and development, Matthew Postgate, as its new chief…
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BBC Worldwide reorganises digital as Heaf exits
BBC Worldwide said it remains committed to its digital strategy in the wake of the…
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SCTE names engineering chief
The US Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) has named Dean Stoneback as senior director…
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A+E Networks makes senior EMEA hires
A+E Networks has made two senior European appointments, hiring Nickelodeon UK exec Kiaran Saunders as…
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YouSee boss joins TV4 as channel director
Swedish broadcaster TV4 Group has appointed the head of Danish cable operator YouSee, Mathias Berg,…
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Vivendi makes management board appointments
Vivendi’s supervisory board has named the chairman and CEO of the Bolloré Group, Vincent Bolloré,…
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Telenor Broadcast appoints new CEO
Telenor Group has promoted the senior vice president of its industrial development arm, Ragnar Kårhus,…
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Former Sony digital strategy chief joins General Harmonics
The former chief digital strategy officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Mitch Singer, has joined Canadian…
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European Audiovisual Observatory appoints new legal chief
The European Audiovisual Observatory has appointed the former head of Italian Regulator AGCOM’s digital rights…