Milan Knazko is to stand down as general director of the Slovak national commercial station TV Joj after four years in the post. Earlier this year TV Joj, which commands an audience share of around 16% in a market dominated by CME-backed TV Markiza, was acquired by J&T Media Enterprises from Grabofal Group. (CD)

Jeff Kupsky has been named as the new president of Turner Broadcasting System Europe. His remit will cover all of Turner’s television and multiplatform outlets in Europe including Cartoon Network, Boomerang and TCM (Turner Classic Movies), and commercial activities for CNN International. Key responsibilities include overseeing business development, marketing, distribution and public relations, as well […]

Former Discovery Channel UK boss David Abraham has been named as the new chief executive of UKTV. He will take-up the role at the BBC Worldwide–Virgin Media Television joint venture in April following the retirement of Dick Emery. 43-year old Abraham is joining from Discovery Networks USA where he has been the executive vice president […]

Gary Lewis has been appointed the new Miranda Technologies sales manager for Central and Eastern Europe. Montreal-based Miranda Technologies develops, manufactures and markets high performance hardware for the TV broadcast industry. It has a growing partnership/client base in a number of countries in the region including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary and the […]

Sky News has been named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society awards in London. Sky News correspondent Dominic Waghorn picked up both the Television Journalist of the Year award and also the International News award for a special report on baby snatching in China. The RTS judges complemented Sky News on […]

Another senior staff member has left MTV’s London office. Michael Barry, previously managing director of the music and youth networks channels in the UK and Ireland, is to join BT Vision as director of programming. Barry will take up his post in April and will report to Marc Watson, commercial director at the IPTV network. […]

Angel Gambinio has become the latest senior staff member to leave MTV’s London office. Gambino joined the broadcaster from the BBC in September 2005. She is attributed with the launch of the video-on-demand service MTV Overdrive and the user generated content channel MTV Flux. Just one week ago MTV Networks Europe president and CEO Simon […]

The board at satellite operator Eutelsat Communications has today appointed four new members, following the acquisition of 32% of its share capital by Abertis Telecom. The Abertis representatives replace board members representing the previous owners of Abertis Eutelsat stake. Abertis Telecom acquired its share of the Paris-based satellite operator from Nebozzo (Texas Pacífic Group and […]

Simon Guild, President and CEO at MTV Networks Europe has decided not to renew his contract, following a 14-year tenure at the broadcaster of niche channels including Nickelodeon, MTV, and TMF. “As my contract was up for renewal I decided it was time to look for something new,” Guild stated. (DK)

Euronews has appointed a new International Sales Manager based in its London sales office. Fredrik Boreström will work with the London media agencies across a full spectrum of media outlets. A Swedish national, Boreström has six years experience in the media sector, he was previous sales manager Europe for Glenayre, a mobile messaging and video […]