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Highfield’s Successor: Who’s In The Frame For BBC’s Top Digital Job? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Apr 2008 10:24 AM PST

The king is gone, long live… whom exactly? BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield’s move to Project Kangaroo opens up perhaps the most powerful position in UK digital…

BBC Digital Chief Highfield Quits To Lead ITV-BBC Worldwide-Channel 4 JV Kangaroo - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Apr 2008 02:27 AM PST

BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield is quitting to become CEO of Project Kangaroo - an upcoming online TV JV between ITV (LSE: ITV), Channel 4 and the…

BBC Brings iPlayer To Wii; ISP Grumbles As Traffic Grows To 17.2 Million Streams, Downloads In March - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 05:33 AM PST

The BBC is launching a version of its iPlayer TV catch-up for Nintendo’s Wii console, the broadcaster announced with the game maker at MipTV. The service will be offered as…

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BBC America Assembles Ad Sales Team For First Cross-Platform Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 08 Apr 2008 02:54 PM PST

BBC Worldwide is expanding its North American ad sales operations, allowing for selling ads across BBC.com and its related cable channels for the first time, the commercial arm of UK’s…

BBC Puts iPlayer Catch-Up TV On iPhone - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 07 Mar 2008 11:27 AM PST

After much rumour, the BBC has made its iPlayer TV catch-up service available on iPhone - its first mobile implementation. The service does not use the new SDK nor an…

BBC Worldwide To Distribute Shows Through iTunes; In UK Only - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 18 Feb 2008 08:44 PM PST

BBC’s commercial arm will start distributing shows through Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes by next week, reports The Register, citing sources. The launch will happen on Tuesday, and BBC Worldwide’s digital…

MySpaceTV Will Distribute BBC Worldwide Globally; Promotes Berman To EVP, Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 23 Jan 2008 05:21 PM PST

MySpace and BBC Worldwide are partnering to deliver new and archived short-form BBC content through MySpaceTV. The deal is described as the first global agreement between MySpace and a major…

Industry Moves: Joost Hires Engineering SVP From Comcast, Loses CTO To BBC - 7 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Jan 2008 05:16 AM PST

From our sister site paidContent:UK: Joost has hired an engineering SVP in New York to build a US development hub, as it loses its chief technology officer to the BBC.…

After Nearly A Decade, BBC America Forms Its Own Ad Sales Group - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 13 Dec 2007 09:45 PM PST

Over the past year, BBC America has worked to expand its brand in the U.S. Those efforts requires it to be more independent from its cable distributor, Discovery Networks. Recognizing…

@ FutureMedia: BBC 2008 - Sneak Previews, ‘Taking Video Seriously’, ‘Embracing Social Media’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 13 Dec 2007 04:20 AM PST

From PCUK: The BBC is “actively pursuing” partnerships with more TV platform operators to carry its iPlayer service. Amongst a gamut of sneak previews and hints to the corporation’s 2008…

@ Monaco: James Murdoch vs Ashley Highfield: Public Intervention In More Ways Than One - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 Nov 2007 12:12 PM PST

From our UK site paidContent:UK: At the Monaco Media Forum this weekend, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO James Murdoch was interviewed on stage in an engaging session, where he touched on…

BBC Ads Are Now Live: BBC.com Execs Appointed, Video Ads Coming Too - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 06 Nov 2007 03:55 AM PST

The controversial move from BBC’s commercial arm is finally in place: Advertisements started appearing overnight on BBC web properties when viewed from outside the UK, and the corporation has made…

BBC Sheds Thousands Of Jobs, BBC.com Ads Get Go-Ahead - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 18 Oct 2007 04:46 AM PST

From our sister site paidContent:UK: A big day on which the BBC director-general won approval for two key proposals, heralding big changes at the broadcaster: - BBC.com Ads Get Go-Ahead,…

BBC Trust Approves Job Cuts, BBC.com Ads; Commercial Download Player For Worldwide - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 17 Oct 2007 10:29 AM PST

From our UK site paidContent:UK: BBC Trust has approved director-general Mark Thompson’s six-year plan purportedly involving the loss of around 2,800 jobs, the creation of around 1,000 more and the…

BBC iPlayer—Finally—Will Go Cross-Platform With Adobe - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 15 Oct 2007 04:45 PM PST

After months of criticism, the BBC will be able to offer Mac and Linux users access to its catch-up video service iPlayer by the end of the year via a…

BBC Worldwide Buys Travel Guide Company Lonely Planet - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 30 Sep 2007 11:58 PM PST

From paidContent:UK: BBC Worldwide, the international commercial arm of BBC, has bought Lonely Planet, the travel information group founded in Australia in 1972, for an undisclosed sum. Founders Tony and…

BBC Gets Green Light For HD Over TV, IPTV And Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 26 Sep 2007 05:29 PM PST

From our new site paidContent:UK: The BBC Trust has given the broadcaster the green light to start broadcasting HD programmes - online as well as on TV (see release). The…

Interview: Ashley Highfield, Director, BBC Future Media & Technology: Trust Takes Too Long - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Sep 2007 10:00 PM PST

The BBC’s digital media supremo has said the broadcaster’s regulator should speed up the process for green-lighting new internet projects. In an in-depth interview to mark the launch of our…

BBC iPlayer Bandwidth Concerns - More Investment Needed, Regulator Says - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 16 Aug 2007 08:14 AM PST

What’s the best way to extricate the BBC from the bandwidth nightmare some ISPs this week said the corporation’s iPlayer will wreak? Build faster broadband, says the U.K. media regulator.…

Broadband ISPs Talking To BBC Over iPlayer Bandwidth Consumption Issues - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 12 Aug 2007 10:04 PM PST

This has shades of net neutrality debate: in UK, three of the biggest broadband providers Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, among others, have spoken to BBC amid growing anger over…

Broadband Content Bits: BBC: Rugby World Cup; Setanta; Mirror - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 01 Aug 2007 05:11 AM PST

-- BBC: The BBC News website is launching advertising-supported broadband video for overseas users. The corporation had previously started showing TV news bulletins and individual news clips in high quality…

BBC Web TV iPlayer Beta Launches; Some Testers Grumble - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 27 Jul 2007 10:15 AM PST

The BBC today launched its iPlayer web catch-up TV application for public beta test applicants. (Video demo.) The service lets U.K. users download TV programs up to seven days following…

BBC’s Regulator Starts Review Of All Online Output - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 26 Jul 2007 09:55 AM PST

BBC Trust, the independent regulator that governs the broadcaster, today launched a wide-ranging review of bbc.co.uk to ensure the corporation’s websites offer sufficient public value. The trust will examine how…

Broadband Content Bits: Nielsen; Nickelodeon; Universal-EFF; Cycling.tv; iPlayer; SacBee - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 25 Jul 2007 08:44 AM PST

-- Broadband video use on the rise: About 81 million people, or 63 percent of the 129 million who have broadband connections in the U.S., watch broadband video at home…

Industry Moves UK: BBC Loses iPlayer ‘Inventor’ To Lovefilm; Guardian Radio - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 23 Jul 2007 01:16 AM PST

The “inventor” of the BBC’s forthcoming iPlayer web TV catch-up application is leaving the corporation. Ben Lavender becomes group digital and product manager at European online DVD rental service Lovefilm.…