Digital music distributor appoints new chief

Digital music distributor Media Service Provider (MSP), who are probably best known in this country for working with Virgin Media on the MusicFish branded all you can eat download and streaming service that they never launched due to being unable to agree terms with the labels (Virgin have of course since launched their tie up with Spotify), have appointed a new chief executive to replace the departing Paul Hitchman.

Graham Sargood is actually an ex Virgin Media staffer with 20 years experience in the telecoms industry that MSP is targeting to run music services for and moves from his current non-executive director role at the music on demand platform operator to take over operation responsibilities from Hitchman.

Sargood said of his appointment:

"MSP is poised to accelerate its growth in 2012 with the roll-out of further services across multiple territories and user platforms. I am very much looking forward to working with the existing team at MSP to fulfil the opportunities the company has to move to the next level of growth and product evolution."

The MSP platform is used by Eircom's MusicHub service.