Easy online registration for the third annual AIB Global Media Business Conference is now available.
The Global Media Business Conference is the meeting place of the international broadcasting industry, and this year the event takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 May.
Full details are available in the Conference section of this website.
The AIB’s annual summit of the broadcasting industry, the Global Media Business Conference, was launched at an event in London on Thursday 18th March.
Bringing together AIB members, industry executives, journalists and politicians, the launch provided a comprehensive briefing about the 2004 Global Media Business Conference which will be held in Prague on 12 and 13 May.
For more information, contact Anver Anderson on +44 (0) 1245 399 965
To mark the opening of the AIB’s Asia-Pacific office in Sydney, a networking evening was held on Thursday 26 February.
Hosted by Kerry Stevenson, the AIB’s Communications Director who is based in Sydney, the event brought together a range of global media executives and experts.
From 1 June Kingston inmedia, one of the industrys leading communications service providers, will trade simply as Inmedia. The change follows the leveraged buyout in April 2004 by management and The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm. The focus of the name change is business and brand continuity. Inmedia will continue to deliver broadcast, enterprise and carrier solutions for content owners, programme makers, broadcasters, corporations, carriers and ISPs using satellite and terrestrial technologies.
It really is business as usual for those who work at Inmedia and in the past few weeks since the acquisition weve had lots of positive feedback from the industry and our customers. We chose to stay with the Inmedia name as we feel it is very relevant to all aspects of our business. In all fairness a lot of our customers and partners have called us Inmedia for some time now and we wanted to make sure that they know they can expect the same high levels of service and product innovation that they have become used to, says Nick Thompson, Chief Executive of Inmedia.
On 1 June DW Director General Erik Bettermann welcomed the international broadcasters first nine foreign language trainees who, over the next year, will learn their bi-media journalistic trade at the DW Academy and eventually join DWs foreign language services in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Hindi and Kiswahili. The nine trainees were chosen from over 200 applicants.
As announced earlier this month, Jeremy C. Wensinger has been named president of the Broadcast Communications Division. In addition, Harris has announced the leadership team for five new business units: Broadcast Networking and Government Solutions, Europe Broadcast Systems, Television Broadcast Systems, Radio Broadcast Systems, and Broadcast Automation Solutions.
Jim Denny has been promoted to vice president of Broadcast Networking and Government Solutions. This new business unit is responsible for product development, product management, manufacturing, sales and strategic marketing for the Intraplex and NetVX(tm) product lines. In addition, this new business unit will identify additional opportunities in commercial content distribution markets where mission-critical communications networks are needed, and will support the U.S. Government segment.
David G. Stephenson joins the Broadcast Communications Division as vice president, Europe Broadcast Systems. Stephenson will be based at the company’s operation in Huntingdon, UK. Europe Broadcast Systems is responsible for development, management, manufacturing, sales and strategic marketing in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region for radio and television transmitters and related products, systems, and services. The business also will focus on increasing Harris’ market share in other parts of the world where European-standard products are required.
Denny and Stephenson join current Harris senior managers who will head the three remaining business units:
Dale B. Mowry assumes the position of vice president, Television Broadcast Systems. He is responsible for product development, product management, manufacturing, sales and strategic marketing for U.S.-standard television transmitters and related products, systems, and services.
Debra Huttenburg assumes the position of vice president, Radio Broadcast Systems. She is responsible for product development, product management, manufacturing, worldwide sales and strategic marketing for U.S.-standard radio products. She also will be in charge of radio and television sales in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific regions.
Jim Woods will continue to serve as vice president, Broadcast Automation Solutions, which is located in Sunnyvale, Calif., with responsibility for the design, development, sales, strategic marketing and technical support of all Harris broadcast software applications worldwide.