The BBC's director of future media and technology is to leave the corporation
and move to a new online TV project dubbed Kangaroo.
Ashley Highfield has angered some ISPs for threatening to
name
and shame providers who slow down internet TV traffic.
Highfield will head the Kangaroo project, an online collaboration between the
BBC, Channel 4 and ITV to stream content over the internet. "This is a fantastic
opportunity," he said.
The three broadcasters will put around 10,000 hours of programming online,
and Kangaroo will be funded by advertising and by users paying to buy or rent
programmes.
Highfield leaves the BBC on something of a high note, after the successful
launch of the iPlayer and a rise in the number of visitors to BBC.com that has
made it the third most popular website in the UK.
Andy Duncan, chief executive at Channel 4, said: "On-demand is already
growing at a lightning rate, as can be seen in the figures for 4oD and more
recently the BBC's iPlayer. Kangaroo's launch will drive the market from
strength to strength."
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