Time Warner's
big news, of course, was the hiring of former NBC president and COO Randy Falco as the head of AOL. He replaces Jonathan Miller, the current CEO. CNNMoney (a Time Warner unit) sees the move as
evidence that AOL will focus even more on growing its online video business.
At Viacom, Mika Salmi, the former CEO of online video provider Atom Entertainment, which the media giant
bought in August, is now taking the helm of global digital media at MTV Networks. And at CBS, Quincy Smith, a former investment banker whose focus was media, has been named the new head of digital
media.
The big question now is, will these new media executives be friend or foe to Google and YouTube in their quest for online content rights?