{"id":87821,"date":"2009-12-04T22:59:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T09:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sky-deutschland-appoints-ceo\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:46:59","slug":"sky-deutschland-appoints-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sky-deutschland-appoints-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Deutschland Appoints CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-04-09] <strong>BSkyB<\/strong> Managing Director Brian Sullivan has been appointed CEO of <strong>Sky Deutschland<\/strong>, effective March 31, the operator announced. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sullivan, a 13-year veteran of BSkyB\u2019s customer department, will replace CEO Mark Williams who is leaving the company for personal reasons. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cGermany remains a largely untapped market, not just for pay TV but also for HDTV, and I see great potential to build on the foundation that has been laid to develop a truly world-class entertainment service,\u201d Sullivan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Sky Deutschland CEO Sees New Era for Operator<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 1, 2009<br \/>\nGermany has proven to be a tough market for satellite pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland, formerly Premiere. The operator has been beset with problems throughout recent years, including widespread piracy and a scandal involving false subscriber\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Sky Deutschland CEO Defends Re-brand<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSeptember 25, 2009<br \/>\n[09-25-09] Germany is one of the world s biggest markets for pay-TV but has proved a tough market to crack for satellite pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland, formerly known as Premiere. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Premiere Re-branding Takes Toll on Sky Deutschland in 2Q<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tAugust 14, 2009<br \/>\n[08-14-09] Sky Deutschland suffered major losses in the second quarter of 365.8 million euros ($518.16 million), the company announced in its 2009 second quarter financial results released Aug. 13. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-04-09] BSkyB Managing Director Brian Sullivan has been appointed CEO of Sky Deutschland, effective March 31, the operator announced. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sullivan, a 13-year veteran of BSkyB\u2019s customer department, will replace CEO Mark Williams who is leaving the company for personal reasons. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cGermany remains a largely untapped market, not just for pay TV but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87821"}],"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=87821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87996,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87821\/revisions\/87996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}