Chris Hanretty

'appointments' Category

• Apr

  01

  2009

  Nominees to board of ABC

  From ABC:
  Julianne Schultz and Michael Lynch are the first two directors to be appointed to the ABC board under a new process implemented by the Federal Government to make the system more transparent.
  Dr Schultz is the founding editor of the Griffith Review and is a Professor at the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at [...]

  posted in abc, appointments, australia by Chris

• Feb

  19

  2009

  New board for Rai

  Now that Sergio Zavoli has finally been appointed President of the parliamentary committee which supervises Rai, the committee has been able to get to work. The committee’s most important task is appointing seven of the nine members of the board of Rai, which it has now done. The seven names, with their presumed party affiliations [...]

  posted in appointments, rai by Chris

• Jan

  07

  2009

  Corecom nominees in Campania

  [This is part of a project I’m working on, so it may not be of immediate interest to anyone]
  Nominees for the Corecom in Campania are [as listed in http://www.sito.regione.campania.it/burc/pdf08/burc50or_08/decpregiure235_08.pdf]:

  Gianni Festa [President]
  Francesco D’Ippolito
  Brunella Cimadomo
  Enzo Todaro
  Giuseppe Giordano
  Pietro Funaro
  Gianni Russo
  Vincenzo Cerrato
  Giovanni Scala

  posted in appointments, campania, corecom by Chris

• Dec

  22

  2008

  French negative on PSB reform

  The next chief executive of France Télévisions will be named by the President of the Republic, not by the Conseil Superieur de l’Audiovisuel, as is currently the case.
  Two-thirds of French people polled are opposed to this.
  56% of those polled believe the reform `calls into question’ the group’s independence.
  Of course, it would be nice if they’d [...]

  posted in appointments, france, france televisions, public opinion by Chris

• Dec

  06

  2008

  Corecom nominees in Molise

  [This is part of a project I'm working on, so it may not be of immediate interest to anyone]
  Nominees for the Corecom in Molise are:

  Federico Liberatore
  Carmina Cirillo
  Angelo Spina
  Michele Della Loggia
  Erminia Gatti

  [thanks to Caffe Molise]
  Liberatore was previously president of the Corecom from 2001 to 2006. He was was either

  a municipal councillor in Bonefro (Campobasso, Molise) [...]

  posted in appointments, corecom, molise by Chris

• Jul

  06

  2008

  French voters opposed to presidential nomination of PSB chief

  Poll shows that 71% of respondents are opposed to presidential nomination of the head of France Télévisions. 11% have no opinion; 18% agree with Sarkozy that it is “logical” that the state should name the head of a corporation it owns.
  Unfortunately Le Parisien does not provide the text of the questions asked; Le Monde is [...]

  posted in appointments, france televisions, polling, sarkozy by Chris

• Jul

  02

  2008

  Pen-pushers

  Minister for Public Administration Renato Brunetta launched, a little over a month ago, what he called a ‘transparency operation‘. The idea is to publish online all the details for the personnel of public bodies, including contact details and rates of abstenteeism and other absences, so that Tizio or Caio (the Italian version of Smith or [...]

  posted in appointments, bureaucracy, italy by Chris

• Jun

  26

  2008

  Sarko proposes presidential nomination of France Télévisions chief

  From the comments in this Le Monde article it seems that Sarkozy has actually thought about this, and wasn’t speaking in impromptu fashion.
  This suggestion goes against the trend of moving such appointments away from the executive. Reaction is somewhere between hostile and incensed.
  The argument in favour of presidential nomination is that too often the current [...]

  posted in appointments, france, france televisions, sarkozy by Chris

• May

  28

  2008

  Saving ReteQuattro, kicking Rai into the long-grass

  After packing a previously uncontroversial bill full with measures that would help Retequattro avoid a move to satellite, the government yesterday lost a vote on one of the provisions contained there, on bird protection, of all things.
  Gioacchino Alfano, justice minister, has now promised to listen to the opposition’s concerns about Retequattro. Quite what this means [...]

  posted in appointments, cappon, italy, rai, retequattro by Chris

• May

  20

  2008

  New appointments to the CBC board

  From Inside the CBC:
  Joseph Handley is the retired Premier of the Northwest Territories, a position he occupied from 2003 to 2007. Throughout his political career in the Northwest Territories, he held many positions, including Minister of Finance; Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development; and Minister of Aboriginal and Intergovernmental Affairs and Housing. Prior to [...]

  posted in CBC, appointments, canada by Chris