Stig Eide Sivertsen, executive vice president and head of Telenor Broadcast, is to leave the company after 10 years. Sivertsen has handed in his resignation that has a notice period […]
IMPALA hires director of market development
IMPALA, the International MHEG Promotion Alliance, has appointed Giri Valliappan as its director of market development. The organisation was established at IBC 2006 with the intention of promoting the MHEG-5 […]
Bolin primed to take IABM post
IABM, the trade association for broadcast and media technology suppliers, has announced the appointment of Rick Bolin as CEO designate. Bolin will join the IABM on October 1, before taking […]
Grinda becomes Euronews distribution director
Jill Grinda has been appointed Euronews’ director of worldwide distribution. She joins from a two year spell as regional director Europe and Asia for Al Jazeera English – the latest […]
Scott named Freesat MD
Emma Scott has been confirmed as the managing director of Freesat, the free-to-air satellite platform, jointly owned by the BBC and ITV. Scott joined the BBC in 1997, and became […]
New head for Agora
Marek Sowa has been confirmed as the new president of the Polish media group Agora. Most recently the VP of UPC Poland, he is expected to move the group, which […]
Sjodin new star in Sirius constellation
Hakan Sjodin has been named as the new managing director of SES Sirius replacing Per Norman who is leaving the company to head up the Swedish DTT platform Boxer. Sjodin […]
Guggenheim quits OpenTV
OpenTV’s chief executive officer Alan Guggenheim has stepped down as the company’s chief executive officer of the technology company for what is being described as “personal reasons”. The technology company […]
New board members at Svyazinvest
Comstar-UTS has announced the election of two of its and parent company Sistema’s representatives to the board of directors at the telco Svyazinvest. Alexander Gorbunov (VP for strategy and development […]
Discovery centralises network operations
Discovery Communications has announced plans to centralise its global network operations infrastructure. The move sees John Honeycutt named as executive vice president and chief media technology officer and Myrna Renaud […]