Globecast, a global solutions provider for media, has appointed Ken Fuller to the post of chief technology officer (CTO) of Globecast Americas. Fuller will lead all aspects of the company’s technical development and will work closely with the executive management team to establish a clear and strategic technical vision.
In his new role, he will oversee key vendor relationships and investigate, purchase, and implement new technologies. On top of this, Fuller will manage a team of 30 in the U.S. He reports to Globecast COO Philippe Fort who is based in Paris.
Eddie Ferraro, managing director, Globecast Americas, said, “Ken’s impressive experience in broadcast and satellite transmission as well as OTT, VOD and media management makes him an incredible asset to Globecast. He will successfully implement the roadmap we need to continue to deliver high caliber solutions to our customers around the world.”
Prior to joining Globecast, Fuller held the post of sr. VP of operations at Deluxe Entertainment Services Group in Burbank, Calif., where he was responsible for several integration groups that focused on ingest, QC, metadata management of packaging and delivery of SVOD, TVOD, and streaming content. Before then, he spent several years as sr. VP and general manager at Encompass Digital Media, Inc., where he was responsible for the company’s metro Los Angeles operations, production, engineering and facilities services. Fuller is also a past president of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers as well as an SMPTE Fellow. In addition, he was director of broadcast and network operations NBC New York. While there, he received five Technical Emmy Awards for his work on NBC’s Olympic broadcasts.
Fuller said, “In my new position, I’m committed to helping ensure that our customers have full visibility on the value we offer, and I’m looking forward to engaging with the industry to deliver a technical strategy that’s successful for everyone.”
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More