News

22 December 2008

ENDEMOL APPOINTS HEAD OF PARTICIPATION TV

Endemol, a world leader in entertainment programming, today announced that Dennis Janzen has been appointed as Head of Participation TV.

Mr. Janzen is joining Endemol from ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group's interactive television arm 9 Live International where he has been Consultant for Business Development and Strategy for the last two years. In this capacity he was responsible for planning, implementation and coordination of current and new business. Dennis has broad international experience in his field having worked out of the USA, Europe and Latin America.

He joins Endemol on 1st February 2009 and will be based at Endemol's head office in the Netherlands reporting to Marco Bassetti, Chief Operating Officer of Endemol.

Marco Bassetti comments: "Television audiences around the world continue to have a real appetite for interactivity and that creates significant demand for participation TV. The key is to use creativity and innovation to deliver content that is compliant, appealing to viewers and commercially successful. Dennis's international experience is perfectly suited to driving forward this area of our business and he will be a valuable asset to our global team."

Dennis Janzen adds: "Endemol has one of the industry's most impressive track records in creating interactive TV content that engages audiences all over the world. They have established an extremely successful participation TV business and I'm very much looking forward to building on that. "