Ashley Highfield: iPlayer Glory Boy?

How wrong The Times are in their piece praising Ashley Highfield, entitled “Business big shot: Ashley Highfield.” To label him as the man behind the launch of the BBC iPlayer, misleads their readers. Ashley might have been the person who stood himself up for interviews, giving the impression that he was the man behind it. … Continue reading Ashley Highfield: iPlayer Glory Boy?

Ashley Highfield, BBC – The IBC Digital Lifestyles Interviews

This is the sixth in a series of eight articles with some of the people involved with the Digital Lifestyles conference day at IBC2004. We interviewed Ashley Highfield, Director of New Media & Technology and the BBC on the need to make content easily available to the public, and the platforms they might use to obtain it.

BBC Vision Goes Multi-Platform. For Real This time?

The BBC is to bolster multi-platform commissioning. “Again?” I hear you cry. Do you remember back as far as 2002 when Ashley Highfield, then Head on New Media at the BBC, was telling everyone who would listen … or write about him … that the BBC wouldn’t commission any new programmes unless they had an … Continue reading BBC Vision Goes Multi-Platform. For Real This time?