TV3 poaches new chief executive from Eircom

Eircom’s commercial director David McRedmond is to quit the telecom and take up the post of chief executive with TV3.

Mr McRedmond, who will join the broadcaster in December, takes over from Rick Hetherington. Mr Hetherington had been chief executive since the station’s launch in 1998 and was on secondment from TV3’s former owner CanWest.

In May, TV3 was bought by British private equity group Doughty Hanson for €265m.