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MP & Silva, a leading international media rights company, announced that Peter Hutton is the new Chief Operating Officer of the MP & Silva Group. MP & Silva has seen a rapid growth since 2004 and Peter Hutton will add his long broadcasting experience to lead the Group’s global commercial strategy. Hutton was the managing [...]

Telestream, the provider of video transcoding and workflow automation solutions, has named George Boath as Vice President of International Sales for Telestream’s enterprise products, which are comprised of multiformat video ingest, transcoding and file-based workflow automation products. Boath expands his role in managing the company’s enterprise sales teams in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, [...]

The Associated Press has appointed Chris Waiting as Director of Business Development Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Waiting will join the EMEA and Asia management team and be responsible for supporting Daisy Veerasingham, Head of AP’s Video Business, on a range of projects aimed at ensuring the company’s international long-term growth. Waiting will work [...]

Bringing with him over 40 years experience in the television, film and media industries, Lawrie Hitchens has taken on the contract role as business development manager for Magna Systems and Engineering in Australia. Previously with Fujifilm Australia Hitchens is perhaps best known for his success as their National Sales Manager, Optical Devices Broadcast and CCTV [...]

Australian Production and Post company FSM has announced the addition of Phil Meatchem to its creative roster. Joining FSM from from Filmgraphics, the director and animation director brings a wealth of TVC experience to the company. According to FSM, “Phil’s skills add a new dimension of talent and experience to FSM’s team as we embrace [...]

Snell has announced the appointment of Amit Daftary as regional head for the company’s operations in the Middle East and South Asia (MESA) region. In this role at Snell, Daftary will assume full responsibility for the company’s regional teams and its growing business across India and the Middle East. “Amit’s strong commercial experience and industry [...]

Foxtel Chief Executive Officer, Richard Freudenstein has announced that Ben Buckley would join Foxtel as Executive Director – Sport and Foxtel Victoria from 3 June 2013. Ben replaces Peter Campbell who will leave the network to join the Australian Football League. “Ben Buckley is one of Australia’s most experienced and highly regarded sports executives,” said [...]

Foxtel Chief Executive Officer, Richard Freudenstein has announced that Ben Buckley will join Foxtel as Executive Director – Sport and Foxtel Victoria from 3 June 2013. Ben replaces Peter Campbell who will leave the network to join the Australian Football League.  “Ben Buckley is one of Australia’s most experienced and highly regarded sports executives,” said [...]

Qube Cinema has announced the appointment of Lewis Thorne as its official Level 2 technical support specialist for Australia and New Zealand. Thorne brings many years of experience in the digital cinema industry to his new position, strengthening Qube’s presence in the region. Users of Qube Cinema’s digital cinema servers, Integrated Media Blocks (IMBs), and [...]

Liberty Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced that it has selected Tom Mockridge to become CEO of Virgin Media Inc. (“Virgin Media”) (NASDAQ:VMED; LSE: VMED) upon the closing of its proposed acquisition of Virgin Media, which is subject to stockholder approval of both companies. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved [...]