Kristin Brzoznowski

LOS ANGELES: After more than three decades with Fox Networks Group (FNG), longtime CFO Del Mayberry is planning to retire, with Ravi Ahuja named as his successor.

Zenith’s Media Consumption Forecasts report finds that mobile internet consumption is now growing at the expense of all other media, including TV, which still dominates despite recent declines. The amount of time people around the world devote to using mobile internet is forecast to increase by 27.7 percent this year, driving a 1.4-percent increase in overall media consumption.

NEW YORK: Maria Rørbye Rønn, the CEO and director general of Danish Broadcasting Corporation, will receive the 2016 International Emmy Directorate Award.

Revenues from OTT TV and video in Canada and the U.S. are forecast to reach $24.39 billion in 2021, according to Digital TV Research. This is up from the $2.67 billion in 2010 and $15.39 billion in 2015.

Following a two-year stint in Prague, NATPE is returning to Budapest for its 2016 market and conference, which is taking place from June 27 to 30, this time at the InterContinental Hotel.

Following its latest study, GfK suggests that commercial-free streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon may need to consider accepting advertising as an alternative to raising their subscription fees in order to achieve revenue and profit growth.

LONDON: Alex Jones and Belinda Campbell have been appointed joint managing directors of Red Planet Pictures, the production company behind such dramas as Death in Paradise, The Passing Bells and Dickensian.

PARIS: Shonda Rhimes, whose TV credits include such hits as Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, is being honored as the MIPCOM 2016 Personality of the Year.

Thanks to the popularity of Apple TV devices, Apple has moved into the number three spot based on revenue in the overall global set-top box market, according to IHS. The company moved up to number three in 2015 from ninth place in 2014.

SEATTLE: Amazon is bringing back its hit series Transparent for a fourth season, to premiere exclusively on Prime Video in 2017.