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BBC’s Huggers Confirmed Future Media & Technology Director - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jul 2008 02:48 AM PST

As we and several others forecast back in April, BBC future media and technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers has just been confirmed in the director post, replacing Ashley Highfield on…

Industry Moves: John Menzies Hires Digital Director From Zinio - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Jul 2008 03:13 AM PST

High street newsagent John Menzies is taking Sarah Clegg, commercial director of digital magazine distributor Zinio, to be the new MD of its digital division. There’s plenty of synergy here…

Broadband Content Bits: Blinkx Search, IPTV EU, Babelgum - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Jul 2008 05:34 AM PST

-- Blinkx: Of the many press releases put out by video search site Blinkx (four so far today), one of the most significant is the announcement it is now making…

Industry Moves: Absolute Radio Takes Digital Director From Bauer - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 03:56 AM PST

New Virgin Radio owner Absolute Radio will use Bauer Performance digital director Chris Lawson to fill the hole created by the loss of Andy Gumbridge from its equivalent position last…

Updated: BBC’s Huggers ‘Slated For Job’, But ‘No Announcement Due’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 01:14 AM PST

Here’s to embargoes, arrangements and accidents. As predicted, BBC future media and technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers is to be crowned director of the unit, according to Guardian.co.uk. Or is…

Industry Moves: Seatwave Adds News Corp Europe Chair To Its Table - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Jul 2008 04:14 AM PST

Online secondary tickets marketplace Seatwave has made a high-profile appointment to its board. News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Europe’s chairman Marty Pompadur is joining as a non-executive director, and is likely…

Industry Moves: Joost’s Content EVP Quits For Non-Profit - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Jul 2008 11:08 AM PST

Yvette Alberdingkthijm, Joost’s NYC-based EVP of content, has quit the company to become executive director of Peter Gabriel’s Witness human rights organization. Schooled in law, Alberdingkthijm had long held posts,…

Industry Moves: Virgin Radio Restructure, Virgin Media Board - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Jul 2008 02:10 AM PST

-- Virgin Radio: Virgin Radio, soon to be renamed after SMG sold it to Times of India group’s Absolute Radio, is losing its digital media director Andy Gumbridge as part…

Round-Up: ITN Games Show, Manc Mag, Bragster Appoints, BBC Stats - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 04:10 AM PST

-- ITN Games: The UK newsgatherer’s ITN On multimedia division is now doing contract online news production on a web-and-mobile video show for Cranberry Publishing’s Gamerzines.com, a host of free…

Mippin Hires Its VC As CEO, Enhances For iPhone - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 01:37 AM PST

Mippin, a London-based service that repackages web content for mobile handsets, has appointed Judy Gibbons, the Accel VC partner who funded the company, as its CEO. Formed in October out…

Associated Northcliffe Digital Restructures, Ditches MD Hart - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 07:52 AM PST

Associated Northcliffe Digital’s MD Andy Hart has left DMGT’s online unit abruptly after six years, ahead of another upcoming restructure. An Associated Newspapers statement (via Hold The Front Page) read:…

Advertising Meltdown?: Cuts From Sky, Bauer, News Int. - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 12:40 AM PST

Some of our biggest media names are culling their ad sales staff, in what could be a sign of precipitous economic times ahead… -- Sky Media: The broadcaster’s ad sales…

Industry Moves: Bebo Takes Dailymotion MD Burns To Lead European Ops - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 12:02 AM PST

Just four months after she joined video sharer Dailymotion as its first UK MD, Kate Burns is joining Bebo on August 4 in a new position as European VP and…

Industry Moves: ITV Losing Worldwide New Media Head Blakstad - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 06:49 AM PST

ITV (LSE: ITV) Worldwide’s head of new media Martin Blakstad is quitting “to pursue other interests”, the broadcaster told us, confirming C21’s report. ITV has now lost two of its…

Round-Up: EMI Music New CEO, Channel Bee, Media Use Growing, iPlayer - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 05:35 AM PST

-- EMI Music: EMI Group has enlisted the European head of Air Wick maker Reckitt Benckiser’s head, Elio Leoni-Sceti (pictured), to take the helm at its EMI Music recorded music…

Industry Moves: Yell Calls Up New Media Director, ‘Could Oust CEO’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 01:51 AM PST

Perhaps some dedicated online magic can rescue troubled Yell.com operator Yell Group from its precipitous fall. It’s hired LA car marketer Autobytel‘s chief product officer Mark Canon to its new…

Industry Moves: Trader Media Picks Collins To Head New Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 12:42 AM PST

Trader Media Group, the AutoTrader publisher of which Guardian Media Group sold a 49 percent stake last year, has appointed former Sky online products and services director Dominic Collins to…

Industry Moves: Lovefilm Founder Valkin Endemol’s New Digital Head - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jul 2008 02:08 AM PST

Adam Valkin, a partner in Arts Alliance and an online media veteran, is leaving the VC house after nine years to join Endemol as its global head of digital media…

Industry Moves: Ex-Kangaroo CEO Mackenzie Jumps To NetTV24/7 - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jul 2008 10:21 AM PST

Lesley Mackenzie, the former BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) channels and operations director who was launch CEO of VOD JV Kangaroo for a brief while, has now been appointed CEO of NetTV24/7,…

I’m Fired: Sir Alan Leaves His Amstrad Boardroom - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jul 2008 12:24 AM PST

Forty years after founding the company, Apprentice lynchpin Sir Alan Sugar is stepping down as chairman of his Amstrad company after completing the task of selling it to BSkyB (NYSE:…

Industry Moves: Post Reporter Geary Steps Up To Development Role - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:11 AM PST

Young Birmingham Post reporter Joanna Geary’s enthusiasm for threading Twitter and blogs in to the fabric of the newsroom has earned her a promotion to a new position of development…

Industry Moves: DMGT Lures B2B CEO Kavan From Thomson Reuters - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Jul 2008 12:33 AM PST

Daily Mail General Trust (LSE: DMGT) has lured Thomson Reuters’ (NASDAQ: TRIN) investment and advisory president Suresh Kavan to become the new CEO of its DMG Information (DMGI) B2B info…

Industry Moves: News Corp’s CastUp, Turner Find New VPs - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 01 Jul 2008 10:22 AM PST

-- CastUp: Samuel Pescara, southern Europe sales manager for Herzlia, Israel-based IPTV hardware maker Optibase, is leaving after six years to become vice president of sales for Castup, the Tel…

Industry Moves: Ex-BBCer Leggo Joins Interactive Gamer NetPlay TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 01 Jul 2008 01:15 AM PST

Former BBC light entertainment head Michael Leggo has become TV director for NetPlay TV Broadcasting, which operates interactive roulette and bingo games converged across TV and the web. Currently programming…

AOL UK Eliminates MD Role, Steckler Moves To Platform-A UK - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 30 Jun 2008 07:40 AM PST

Less than a month after naming Brendan Condon international head for its Platform-A (NYSE: TWX) network of ad firms, AOL is continuing its European integration with a radical reshuffle that…