New CEO for Joost

Joost, the Internet-streamed TV company, has named a new CEO.

Mike Volpi, senior VP and general manager of Cisco’s routing and service provider technology group, which includes Scientific Atlanta, has joined Joost. He is replacing CEO Frederik de Wahl, who remains chief strategy officer.

Joost, which is currently in beta testing, was created in 1996 by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, who founded Internet phone service Skype. Among its content partners are Viacom and The National Geographic Channel.

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.