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Here is a round-up of some other recent interactive TV-related stories that we didn't have room for in this issue:

Broadband video platform provider, Ooyala, announced Monday night that it has appointed Jay Fulcher as president and CEO, effective immediately. Fulcher, who will also join the company's board, replaces Ooyala co-founder and CEO, Bismarck Lepe, who will now take on the position, president of product strategy, and report to Fulcher. Fulcher most recently served as president and CEO of publicly held Agile Software, a provider of product lifecycle management solutions, and led its sale to Oracle in late 2007. Prior to that, he spent five years at PeopleSoft, where, according to Ooyala, he led the transformation of that company's $1 billion+ global services organization after being president of its $400 million products division.

UK-based interactive TV design company, Pushbutton, has redesigned
and reengineered the ITV service that its long-standing client, National
Geographic Channel, offers on the Sky satellite platform. According to
the company, the revamp of the service is intended to switch its
emphasis to bonus video and promotional reels for new shows. "With
top-quality short-form videos always available from National
Geographic channel, it made sense in the YouTube era to plug that into
NGC's interactive TV service," Pushbutton's director of interactive
television, James Cumberbatch, said in a prepared statement. The
service also now has a completely new look, based on a series of