Gunnar Wiedenfels


Rich Ross exiting post-Scripps deal Discovery

Discovery Communications has named the new management team that will lead the enlarged company after the Scripps Networks Interactive acquisition, with Discovery Channel boss Rich Ross out and Scripps programming chief Kathleen Finch put in charge of all lifestyle channels. Discovery said that Ross, currently group president of Discovery Channel and Science Channel, is to […]

ProSieben gets new finance chief

ProSieben has appointed a new CFO, the latest in a series of management changes at the German broadcaster and media group. Jan Kemper will become CFO and a member of the executive board, filling the role being vacated by Gunnar Wiedenfels who was recently appointed CFO at Discovery, in turn replacing Andrew Warren. Wedenfels exits […]

Maxdome SVOD nears 900k subs

ProSiebenSat.1’s subscription video-on-demand service Maxdome grew its subscriber base by 48% in the year to September and now has close to 900,000 subscribers, according to ProSiebenSat.1 chief financial officer Christof Wahl. Wahl, speaking on an analyst call after ProSiebenSat.1 posted solid Q3 results at the end of last week, said that the service had seen […]

Discovery poaches finance chief from ProSieben

Discovery has hired Gunnar Wiedenfels as CFO, poaching the finance chief from German broadcast giant ProSiebenSat.1. Wiedenfels will join Discovery next April and fill the shoes of Andrew Warren, who had previously announced he was leaving the cable TV group. The new CFO will be based in New York and report to Discovery CEO and […]

New role for ProSiebenSat.1’s Schremper

German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has named Ralf Schremper as chief financial officer, digital and adjacent, in addition to his existing role as executive vice-president, strategic planning/mergers and acquisitions and CFO and managing director of production arm Red Arrow Entertainment. The ‘digital and adjacent’ segment of the company’s business is seen as ProSiebenSat.1’s most important growth driver, […]