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Belgacom appoints head of new customer operations unit
Belgacom has upped long-standing executive Renaud Tilmans, placing him in charge of its new customer…
AMC ups Mandelup to VP of corporate communications
AMC has promoted Sundance media relations executive Elana Mandelup to vice president of corporate communications,…
S&T hires former technical director of Teletext
UK-based interactive TV specialist S&T has hired former technical director of Teletext and founder of…
ATVOD appoints economist Robin Foster to board
The UK’s Authority for Television On Demand (ATVOD) has appointed economist and founding member of…
Bloomberg names first EMEA media chief
Bloomberg Media Group has named Adam Freeman as the first managing director for its EMEA…
Arris makes board appointment
Arris has appointed former Bell Labs president and Alcatel-Lucent chief strategy officer, Jeong Kim, to…
Hulu hires former Netflix marketing boss
US streaming and catch-up service Hulu has recruited Jenny Wall, Netflix’s former marketing executive who…
Telenor Broadcast chief Hofbauer moves to Swedish CEO role
Telenor Broadcast and Canal Digital CEO Patrik Hofbauer has been named as the new CEO…
Silberwasser named Telemundo president
Former Discovery Network International content boss Luis Silberwasser has re-emerged as the new president of…
Eurosport names communications chief
Eurosport has named Géraldine Filiol as deputy managing director for international communications, marketing and external…
Cablevision’s Yvette Kanouff joins Cisco
Cablevision Systems’ executive vice president of corporate engineering and technology Yvette Kanouff is joining Cisco to…
Viacom poaches Fox, Discovery execs for Europe
Viacom has added a pair of executives to its southern Europe team, one from Discovery…
HbbTV names task force chief
Steve Morris, systems architect at TV technology company Espial, has been named a member of…
New co-CEOs for Comcast’s thePlatform
Comcast-owned online video technology company thePlatform has named Marty Robers and Jamie Miller as co-CEOs,…
CNN recruits digital and sales specialist Wyatt
Turner’s cable news net CNN International has hired Owen Wyatt for a newly-created digital and…
Canis Media ups former general manager to CEO role
UK broadcast management company, EPG broker and channel launch specialist, Canis Media, has upped former…
Discovery names Turnbull Fatafeat boss
Discovery Networks International has appointed Hearst Magazines director Amanda Turnbull as managing director of its…
Alticast names industry veteran as EMEA chief
Interactive TV technology specialist Alticast has named former Technicolor and Alcatel-Lucent executive Tiaan Schutte as…
MTG appoints Liberty exec for emerging pay TV markets role
Modern Times Group (MTG) has appointed Liberty Global executive Rotem Hakim as its director of…
PrimaCom hires new CTO
German cable operator PrimaCom has named Unitymedia executive Ludwig Modra as its new chief technology…
BBC Worldwide names new head of brand
BBC Worldwide has named Sara Holt in the new position of head of brand and…
Blinkx names media SVP
Internet media platform provider Blinkx has named Donald Hamilton as senior vice-president of Blinkx Media….
TeliaSonera names corporate development chief
Nordic service provider TeliaSonera has named Henriett Wendt as head of group corporate development. Wendt,…
Greece’s Antenna poaches NBCUniversal channels MD
Greek broadcast group Antenna has appointed Tariq Syed as its managing director of thematic channels…
Housing industry expert to quit PrimaCom parent company board
Lutz Freitag, who was appointed to the board of German cable operator PrimaCom’s parent company…
Ericsson appoints chief strategy officer
Ericsson has upped senior vice president and member of its executive leadership team, Rima Qureshi,…
Stofa CEO to quit company
Danish cable operator Stofa’s CEO Klaus Hoeg Hagensen is to resign his post after three…
Verimatrix names Oetegenn as president
Content security provider Verimatrix has named chief sales and marketing officer Steve Oetegenn as the…
Tom Toumazis returns to TV
Tom Toumazis, the former Disney distribution boss and Endemol CCO, is returning to the TV…
Vivendi names Twitter exec to board
Vivendi has nominated Twitter executive Katie Jacobs Stanton to join its supervisory board. Stanton is…