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BBC's Highfield hops off to Kangaroo
News Channel 4 CEO Andy Duncan said Highfield is "one of the most influential players in digital media" making him the ideal CEO to drive Kangaroo forwards. Highfield will take over from interim CEO Lesley Mackenzie and will be involved in negotiations... [15 Apr 2008]
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet And the responsibility for all of this falls on the shoulders of the BBC's head of Future Media and Technology unit, Ashley Highfield. Reflecting the importance of this work, Highfield was voted number five in silicon.com's tech industry Agenda... [05 Mar 2008]
BBC's iPlayer comes to Macs and Linux
News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com in October, the BBC's head of Future Media and Technology, Ashley Highfield said he couldn't promise a download version would be developed for other non-Windows platforms. [14 Dec 2007]
Online Wall Street Journal goes sub free
News Ashley Highfield Rupert Murdoch plans to give away the digital version of The Wall Street Journal for free, making News Corp the latest company to steer away from paid subscriptions. In September, The New York Times stopped trying to sell... [14 Nov 2007]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile While other broadcasters - perhaps Rupert Murdoch aside - struggle to adapt to the internet and the fast-changing media landscape, Highfield, as head of the Future Media and Technology unit, continues to drag the Beeb kicking and screaming into... [12 Oct 2007]
BBC's new media boss talks web 3.0
News Future media and technology director at the BBC, Ashley Highfield, has further fleshed out the organisation's plans to work with and distribute content digitally, admitting which areas are hardest and easiest to tackle and pointing towards a... [03 Jul 2007]
BBC iPlayer goes public
News Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC said the iPlayer underpins the corporation's Creative Future strategy "to maintain the BBC's relevance among all audiences in the digital age". [27 Jun 2007]
Beeb tunes in to IBM's Marvel to sort its content
News Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC, said in a statement the alliance with IBM will offer "new and genuinely innovative services to our audiences". Paul Cheesbrough, controller of digital media at the BBC, said the... [05 Mar 2007]
Gates snuggles up to Auntie Beeb
News Highfield cited Microsoft's MSN service, Windows Media Center platform, Windows Live Messenger application and the Xbox console as potential gateways for BBC content. The memorandum was signed by the Beeb's director general Mark Thomson, the... [29 Sep 2006]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile A seven-year veteran of the BBC, Highfield continues to break new ground with digital content at the Beeb. Ashley Highfield has become something of an Agenda Setters regular in recent years and remains in the top 10 for the third year running. [25 Sep 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News If all this wasn't enough, in July, as part of a wider reorganisation, BBC director-general Mark Thompson announced that a new Future Media and Technology division (FM&T) will be created - led by Highfield - to concentrate on emerging technologies... [19 Sep 2006]
BBC2 goes mad for broadband
News Roly Keating's announcement is very much in keeping with the BBC's broader ethos of a move to emerging forms of broadcasting content - a charge led by Ashley Highfield, a silicon.com Agenda Setter and the Beeb's director of new media and technology. [25 Nov 2005]
The rise of new media
AS Analysis The highest position occupied on the Agenda Setters list by a figure whose greatest impact will be in the media space is Ashley Highfield, director of new media and technology at the BBC (No. The BBC is already trialling its MyBBCPlayer and is... [26 Sep 2005]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile Highfield, still in his thirties (just), and into his sixth year with the corporation is certainly blazing a trail for the wider use of technology within the BBC - and doing what he can to inject momentum into the brontosaurus of broadcasting. [23 Sep 2005]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News At the heart of Highfield's vision is the move towards a 100 per cent 'digital connected' Britain. Similarly the greater availability of MP3 radio content suggests Highfield is well aware of developments in podcasting, sparking suggestions the... [21 Sep 2005]
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