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Round-Up: EMI Music New CEO, Channel Bee, Media Use Growing, iPlayer

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EMI Music: EMI Group has enlisted the European head of Air Wick maker Reckitt Benckiser’s head, Elio Leoni-Sceti (pictured), to take the helm at its EMI Music recorded music unit. EMI owner Terra Firm’s CEO Guy Hands will now step back to become a non-executive chairman of the company, as EMI continues its turnaround with other new blood of digital strategy pair Cory Ondrejka and Douglas Merrill. Release.

Channel Bee: Soccer AM and Something For The Weekend host Tim Lovejoy today launched his new online TV venture, Channel Bee, after fronting the football show for 11 years. It’s a mish-mash of the kinds of lads’ TV items that Lovejoy has become best known for - with a fraction of the audience. At Guardian.co.uk, he writes he was attracted to the idea by 19 Entertainment’s Simon Fuller so that he could own the format himself.

Media use up: UK media consumption is up six percent since 2006 - because more people are using more than one medium at a time. That’s according to the IPA’s TouchPoints study. TV stays top, used 24 percent of users’ waking time, with radio on 13 percent, internet on seven percent and newspapers and magazines trailing on three percent. The number of people using multiple media within a half-hour period once a week has risen five percent to 84 percent.

BBC iPlayer: The BBC has gone live with the /iplayerbeta/ it’s been testing for a couple of weeks, introducing live and on-demand radio to its catch-up service in a Flash player, as well as a “last played” feature and much more attractive presentation. Next on the list - embedding shows on the web.

Jul 7, 2008 7:35 AM ET

Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, EMI

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