@ Monaco: James Murdoch vs Ashley Highfield: Public Intervention In More Ways Than One
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 a broad range of issues. Among them, BBC, and the continued role of a public sector broadcaster in UK. He had some choice words for BBC, which doesn’t come as a huge surprise, just that he gets more and more eloquent in his criticism. Then, towards the end, Ashley Highfield, the digital head at BBC, who was also present in the audience, asked a rather pointed question to Murdoch, on its strategy of opening up its set-top box. All in all, a hugely entertaining exchange...More here with audio.
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