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Comment Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on planes - love them or loathe them? The issue that got readers... [03 Jul 2008]
Kangaroo tech jumps into Arqiva's hands
News Broadcast infrastructure operator Arqiva is to acquire the technology developed for Project Kangaroo. Project Kangaroo, a collaboration between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, was intended to develop a... [23 Jul 2009]
Kangaroo tech to get ITV kiss of life?
News The technology developed for the now defunct Kangaroo online TV service could still be used despite the project being blocked by the Competition Commission. It's not about resurrecting Kangaroo in a... [06 Feb 2009]
Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny
News Kangaroo, the proposed online on-demand video joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, has been referred to the Competition Commission. Kangaroo - which is headed up by ex-BBC director of... [30 Jun 2008]
BBC, C4 and ITV's Kangaroo finally finds new home with Arqiva
News The on-demand TV platform developed by BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV - known as Project Kangaroo - has had its new home confirmed. The technology behind Project Kangaroo was sold to broadcast... [25 Aug 2009]
Orange walks away from Kangaroo buy
News Orange has walked away from talks to buy the Project Kangaroo online on-demand media player technology. The mobile operator, which is owned by France Telecom, said in a statement: "We can confirm that we are not pursuing... [21 May 2009]
Project Kangaroo shot dead by Competition Commission
News Project Kangaroo, a proposed single platform for viewing BBC, ITV and Channel 4 programmes on a computer, has been blocked by the Competition Commission. The commission suggested in December it was unlikely to approve... [04 Feb 2009]
Watchdog kills Project Kangaroo's bounce
News The future of Project Kangaroo, the proposed online TV-video joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, is in doubt following comments from the Competition Commission. The comments are part of the... [03 Dec 2008]
Project Kangaroo makes leap to December testing
News Project Kangaroo, the online TV joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, is planning to start testing the on-demand media player by the end of the year. A spokesman for the Kangaroo... [18 Nov 2008]
BBC's Highfield hops off to Kangaroo
News BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield, is to leave the corporation to head up the Kangaroo online TV service. Highfield will become CEO of Kangaroo, which is a joint venture... [15 Apr 2008]
Orange 'on the hunt for BBC, ITV, C4 tech'
News Orange is in talks to acquire the technology platform developed for the Kangaroo online on-demand TV service. Project Kangaroo started life in 2007 as a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and... [06 Apr 2009]
'If you look at iPlayer from a distance, it's still very web 1.0'
Comment Erik Huggers became director of the BBC's Future Media and Technology (FM&T) division in July 2008, following the departure of Ashley Highfield who left to join the ill-fated Project Kangaroo. What are your views on the... [18 Feb 2009]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile Earlier this year Highfield left his role as BBC director of future media and technology to head up Project Kangaroo - a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 to create a shared on-demand online media... [07 Oct 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News However, in April this year he announced his departure from the BBC for Project Kangaroo, a broadband TV service being developed as a joint venture between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, where he will take the role as chief... [16 Sep 2008]
Online TV - why this is only the beginning
News And regarding the recent prohibition of the Kangaroo multibroadcaster online TV service by the Competition Commission - a project Highfield briefly headed - he said: "I think the demise of Kangaroo is a... [12 Feb 2009]
