Penella Named New CEO of Acorn Media

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Acorn Media , which has grown into a major supplier of TV fare for the DVD market, has named Miguel Penella as CEO.

Penella, who takes over day-to-day management of the company from Chairman Peter Edwards, had been president of Acorn Direct. Acorn Direct  markets the DVDs direct to consumers via catlogs and online. Its extensive catalog ranges from Benny Hill and As Time Goes By to All Creatures Great and Small and Brideshead Revisited.

Acorn, based in suburban Washington, D.C., will release 71 titles in 2007.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.