The London-based President Of Creative and Editor In Chief over at MTV, Brent Hansen, has announced he is leaving the music telly network. Billboard quote Hansen as saying: "With nearly two decades at MTV Networks, I've decided this is the right time in the company's history for me to resign and move on". In the interim MTV Networks Vice-Chairman Bill Roedy will take over Hansen's duties - it is not clear if a full time replacement will then be recruited.
Meanwhile Ulster TV has hired MTV music chief Mark Sadler to be Programme Director of its Q102 radio station in Dublin. Sadler is no stranger to commercial radio, having worked at the Capital Radio Group for ten years prior to joining MTV.