Peter Flamman has landed a new role at Viacom and will oversee MTV and Nickelodeon across a large chunk of Europe as well as in Africa and the Middle East. Based in Madrid, he will oversee development and production, acquisitions, scheduling and operations across the channels and their digital services. Flamman replaces Laura Abril, who […]
Tina McCann is exiting Nickelodeon UK as part of a “management handover” that sees VP, editorial Alison Bakunowich named general manager. McCann has been Nick UK’s managing director for the past five-and-a-half years, but is exiting to resume work as a freelance executive coach and media consultant. Bakunowich takes up her new role in March, […]
Former Turner Broadcasting System EMEA senior VP and COO Pete Flamman has joined Viacom International Media Networks’s northern Europe operation. Flamman (pictured) is taking on a newly-created role of senior VP of brands for northern Europe at VIMN Northern Europe. He left Turner last year as part of the wide restructuring in the EMEA business […]
Pete Flamman (pictured) has left Turner Broadcasting amid the latest round of restructuring. Flamman was upped to senior VP, COO and head of kids, Turner EMEA, in January 2013 following wide-ranging management changes at the company instigated by international boss Gerhard Zeiler. Zeiler also brought in Giorgio Stock from Disney and he in turn recruited […]
With an array of new distribution platforms emerging and new children’s channels growing audience shares in the US and beyond, Jesse Whittock and Stewart Clarke investigate to what extent Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network still dominate the kids TV market and what challenges lie ahead for the Big Three. In some ways, there’s never […]
Turner Broadcasting System announced this morning that it will reduce the headcount across its EMEA operations by 30%. TBS employs about 900 people across the region and about 250 positions will go following today’s news. The swingeing cuts follow a review of operations by Gerhard Zeiler, who became president of TBS International last year. He […]
Turner Broadcasting’s international boss Gerhard Zeiler has appointed a five-strong management team that will conduct a wide-ranging review of its business. All of Turner’s UK staff are involved in a consultation and Turner said it expects redundancies and other adjustments to its operations. The organisational review affects all of EMEA, although the consultation process is […]
