EM.TV: Elmendorff takes over after Siek quits

At EM.TV, Patrick Elmendorff has taken over responsibility for worldwide TV sales, after the company's New York-based president of worldwide TV sales Rainer Siek has resigned.

Elmendorff will relocate the running German company's global TV sales operation from NY to Munich from this month.

The 33-year-old former Kirch exec has overseen EM.TV Munich-based TV sales business since December 1999, and will now assume the position vacated by Siek: president of worldwide TV sales.

Siek resigned {to pursue other opportunities,{ according to an EM.TV spokesman.

{I went back to the company that I created last year when I left CBS,{ Siek told c21. That New York-based company, called MT.NY, has been headed up by Herbert Kliober jnr during Siek's seven month stint with the German company. MT.NY trades in film and TV rights for the US and international markets.

Muppet rights-holder EM.TV recently reported a net annual loss of DM2.8bn ($1.27bn) for the year 2000, on a turnover of DM1.3bn ($590m).