JW Player, online and mobile video firm, hires

June 30, 2014 |Communications Personals

JW Player, online and mobile video firm, hires Eric Hoffert, ex-Spotify, as chief technology officer and executive vice president-product, and John Luther, ex-Google, as vice president-devices … Tribune Broadcasting hires Chris Topf, ex-WNWO-TV Toledo, Ohio, as vice president and general manager of WPMT York, Pennsylvania … Jean-Paul Philippot, CEO of Belgian public broadcaster RTBF, re-elected European Broadcasting Union president for a fourth term; Anna Maria Tarantola, president of Italian public broadcaster RAI, newly elected EBU vice president … AT&T adds Glenn Hutchins, ex-Silver Lake, to board … Media Institute First Amendment Advisory Council adds Joshua Wheeler, The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.