Sky loses staff to C4

The switching continues as senior staff move between broadcasters in an attempt build bigger and better careers on the other side.

These latest moves come after a senior manager from Sky, Richard Woolfe, left the satellite broadcaster to take up a role at Five.

Now it seems that fellow Sky managers have also jumped ship.

Donna Taberer, commissioning editor for entertainment and features, and Andrew O’Connell, factual commissioning editor, will be heading off to Five to join Richard Woolfe, while Nan Whittingham, currently deputy director of production at Sky1, 2 and 3 will become Five’s head of production.

This is interesting for Five as the channel has kept its head down during these awkward times and clearly is looking to come out of the other side with all guns firing, when it will be a matter of survival of the fittest.