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Ex-MTV reality chief joins Viceland
US cable channel Viceland has hired former MTV reality boss Lauren Dolgen as its head…
AMC Studios appoints head of content sales
Off the Fence’s Mark Dee-Shapland has joined AMC Studios’ worldwide sales arm. Dee-Shapland has taken…
BBC names new board members
The BBC has named the three executives that will join director general Tony Hall on…
Disney CEO Bob Iger to stay on until 2019
Bob Iger has signed a year-extension to remain chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney…
Twitch appoints senior VP of content
Videogame video platform Twitch has appointed Ellation executive Michael Aragon as senior vice-president of content….
Canal+’s Pujol promoted to C8 programme chief
France’s Canal+ has put Vincent Pujol in charge of free-to-air channel C8. Pujol is promoted…
TVN Media names new board president
Scripps Networks Interactive-owned Polish broadcaster, TVN, has appointed Piotr Tyborowicz as president of the board of…
Xumo hires Red Bull’s Hall to head product strategy
US OTT TV specialist Xumo has hired former Red Bull TV executive Chris Hall as…
TVT appoints Discovery exec
Media services and post-production outfit TVT has appointed Discovery executive Yuko Suguro as head of…
Netflix hires Stuber to lead original movies drive
Netflix has hired former Universal exec Scott Stuber to head up its ongoing drive into…
Vodafone names external affairs chief
Vodafone has named Joakim Reiter as group external affairs director, reporting to CEO Vittorio Colao….
A+E announces UK management rejig
A trio of execs have been upped at A+E and Sky’s A+E Networks UK joint…
Antenna recruits chief content officer
Antenna TV has hired George Pofantis as chief content officer, recruiting the programming exec from…
New chief for Mediaset Premium
Mediaset has named Marco Leonardi as the new CEO of its struggling pay TV unit,…
All3Media cofounder joins BBC board
Steve Morrison has joined the board of UK public broadcaster the BBC. Morrison is the…
New chief for Rostelecom
Russian service provider Rostelecom has named Mikhail Oseevsky as president of the company, replacing Sergei…
Mashable hires former Fullscreen exec
Digital media news site Mashable has appointed former MTV and Fullscreen Media exec, Polly Auritt…
EBU’s Philippot takes on UN internet forum advisory role
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) president Jean Paul Philippot has been named as a member of…
Fox names Europe, Africa channel distribution chief
Fox Networks Group has put Paolo Agostinelli in charge of channel distribution for Europe and…
Discovery names new Italy general manager
Discovery Networks Italy has a new general manager. Alessandro Araimo has been appointed to the…
New director-general for Croatia’s HRT
Croatia’s parliament has named Kazimir Bacic as the new director-general of public broadcaster HRT. Bacic…
Kids MCN brings in ex-Little Dot Studios exec
UK-based online kids network WildBrain has hired a former executive from All3Media digital business Little…
AMC hires new channels chief
Scripps Networks executive Kevin Dickie is joining the international arm of AMC and two other…
24i Media hires former Xstream marketing chief
Netherlands-based multiscreen TV app provider 24i Media has named former Xstream chief marketing officer Brynhild…
Clementi takes up BBC Board chairman role
Sir David Clementi has taken up his position as chairman to the new BBC Board,…
Globecast hires BeIN Media exec as technology chief
Media services outfit Globecast has named BeIN Media Group technical director Sylvain Merle as its…
Turner appoints LatAm president
Turner Latin America has named Joel Whitten ‘Whit’ Richardson III as its president, in effect…
Maxdome co-CEO takes ProSiebenSat.1 digital role
ProSiebenSat.1 has appointed Maxdome’s director and co-CEO, Filmon Zerai, as chief digital officer for ProSiebenSat.1…
HBO ups key programming execs
HBO Europe has given more responsibility to a trio of executives as part of a…
Discovery Nordic chief leaves company
Discovery’s Norway and Sweden boss Harald Stromme has left the company amid reports of a…