{"id":58530,"date":"2020-12-02T19:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsats-lead-video-executive-leaves-the-company\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T19:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:11:40","slug":"eutelsats-lead-video-executive-leaves-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsats-lead-video-executive-leaves-the-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat\u2019s Lead Video Executive Leaves the Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Gerry O\u2019Sullivan, <b>Eutelsat<\/b>\u2019s executive vice president of Global TV and Video is leaving the company, according to an internal memo shared with <i>Via Satellite<\/i>. O\u2019Sullivan, who has held the role since November 2017, plans to pursue opportunities closer to his home in the United Kingdom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Sullivan led the launch of new initiatives in Eutelsat\u2019s Video business unit, including the Cirrus cloud hybrid satellite Over-the-Top (OTT) delivery solution which was launched in 2018. He also enabled the launch of the world\u2019s first 8K TV channel.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Sullivan is an international media executive and his career has included senior roles with broadcasters and system operators, including the <b>BBC<\/b>, <b>BSkyB<\/b>, <b>Deutsche Telekom<\/b>, <b>Digicel<\/b>, <b>Fox News<\/b>, and <b>ABC<\/b>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Sullivan led Eutelsat\u2019s key revenue vertical. Video makes up the largest portion of Eutelsat\u2019s revenue \u2014 61% of revenues in its full-year 2019-20 financial results. In Eutelsat\u2019s recent first quarter investor call, CFO Sandrine T\u00e9ran highlighted that broadcast revenue at the company has been stable over the last 13 quarters, which is unique in the satellite industry. She attributed this stability to Eutelsat\u2019s geographic exposure, its absence from the North American market, the resiliency of DTH broadcasting, and channel growth in emerging markets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry O\u2019Sullivan, Eutelsat\u2019s executive vice president of Global TV and Video is leaving the company, according to an internal memo shared with Via Satellite. O\u2019Sullivan, who has held the role since November 2017, plans to pursue opportunities closer to his home in the United Kingdom.&nbsp; O\u2019Sullivan led the launch of new initiatives in Eutelsat\u2019s Video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}