it director of bbc
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News As director of new media and technology at the BBC, he has been working hard on the concept of 'BBC.co.uk 2.0' - the Beeb's version of web 2.0. If all this wasn't enough, in July, as part of a wider reorganisation, BBC director-general Mark... [19 Sep 2006]
Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny
News Kangaroo - which is headed up by ex-BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield - aims to bring together content from all three UK broadcasters along with syndicating rights to other video on demand services. [30 Jun 2008]
CIO Essentials: Vista, BBC iPlayer, BlackBerrys and spam
News What is missing from YouTube, of course, is any form of rights management but it surely can't be beyond the wit of the BBC to build this - or to buy it. The BBC seems to be struggling with the issue of Microsoft's dominance of the consumer desktop. [24 Jul 2007]
Stories of the Month - September 2007
News BBC iPlayer row: The government speaks And finally, the controversy around the BBC iPlayer was again in the news this month with the government responding to an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website, signed by more than 16,000 people. [28 Sep 2007]
BBC's iPlayer is go
News Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of future media and technology, said the iPlayer is a critical part of Auntie's strategy to "maintain impact and relevance in a world where viewing and listening habits are shifting from linear to on-demand". [30 Apr 2007]
Ebusiness Despatches: Where content and distribution meet, there's only one winner
Comment Director general Greg Dyke is a visionary but the BBC right now needs someone who can fulfil its remit as a public service broadcaster. In such a climate you may well point to the BBC, an organisation which isn't dependent on ads and which has a... [12 Nov 2002]
Digital telly hit by double whammy
News Broadcasting minister Kim Howells and director-general of the BBC Greg Dyke both cast doubts on the government's pledge to turn off the analogue signal between 2006 and 2010. He also questioned the long-term future of funding the BBC through the... [05 Jul 2001]
BBC appoints new media director
News The BBC has appointed Ashley Highfield, managing director of Flextech Interactive, as its first new media director. The 34-year-old will oversee the entire new media operation at the BBC. He will also be charged with linking current services such... [31 Jul 2000]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News The BBC's director of new media and technology topped our annual Agenda Setters list last year and must be in with a shout of doing so again this time around. Traditionally its size was seen as the reason it enjoyed the turning circle of the QE2... [21 Sep 2005]
BBC considers charging for online content
News In an interview with the FT, Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of new media, said: "The licence fee could give viewers a certain amount of credit to use a certain amount of content and, once that credit has run out, they would have to top it up. [03 Jul 2001]
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]
Get in there! BBC to show World Cup games online
News World Cup slackers and desk slaves rejoice: the BBC has announced it is to screen all of its matches from Germany this summer live on the internet as well as on television. Roger Mosey, head of BBC Sport, said the move reflects the BBC "taking... [02 Jun 2006]
BBC eyes location in mobile content future
News Speaking at the FT Mobile Media conference, the BBC's director of future media, Ashley Highfield, said the broadcaster - now the UK's favourite mobile web destination - believes mobile content is shortly to enter a boom time. [16 May 2007]
BBC Online chief to get seat on the board
News A spokesman for BBC Online said: "It is likely that Mark will stay on to run the service from day to day and report to the director. BBC Online is to appoint a director with a seat on the BBC board to oversee its operations. [06 Aug 1998]
Vodafone IT chief is CIOs' CIO
News The BBC was voted the most admired IT department in the survey, despite having outsourced its technology operations to Siemens Business Services in a £2bn deal in 2004. Wybrow came top of the poll with 18 per cent of the vote, followed by last year... [30 Jun 2006]
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