International Insider: WBD & Paramount Developments; Big Week For Indian TV; London Protest
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And don’t forget to sign up to the newsletter here. End of the exodus?: It doesn’t feel five minutes ago that Gerhard Zeiler was setting his first post-WBD merger international unit, and yet he was at it again on Thursday.
This was following a spate of exits that has seen EMEA boss Priya Dogra, international distribution head Robert Blair, Germany lead Hannes Heyelmann and, most recently, France chief Pierre Branco announce departures over the past weeks.
This mini-exodus has been the talk of international confabs of late but Zeiler appeared to stem the flow with an all-staff email yesterday announcing another rejig, in which he acknowledged that “change can be unsettling and we have had a lot of changes in these last 18 months.” Additional to the “organisational and personnel changes, we are also experiencing a difficult macroeconomic situation in combination with an acceleration of the transformational industry trends,” he added.
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