Sky has promoted veteran Gary Davey to take control of its pan-European broadcasting business, excluding sport.
Davey is something of a Sky lifer having held the role of managing director of the UK operation when it launched in the early 1990s, he has also worked at Sky Italia and was most recently responsible for heading up programming at Sky Deutschland.
Davey will take on an expanded role as managing director, content, at the enlarged Sky business with overall responsibility for non-sport Sky content including Sky1, Sky News, Sky Arts, Sky Atlantic and the Sky Movies stable.
“Gary is one of the most capable executives in pay TV and I am delighted to welcome him back to Sky in the UK,” said Jeremy Darroch, group chief executive of Sky. “As we become a more international business, Gary’s broad experience across many markets gives him a unique perspective that he can now apply to the continued growth of our content business in the UK and Ireland as well as Germany and Austria.”
Davey effectively takes over the role vacated by Sophie Turner Laing, who left Sky last May after 11 years to become the chief executive of the merged Endemol and Shine global TV production business.
However, Laing’s job was solely UK-focused as she left the company before its expansion into Germany and Italy.
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