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BBC Tech Boss Ousted Post-Digital Media Failure

  • The Drum, Sunday, January 26, 2014 3:31 PM

The BBC executive who oversaw its doomed £100m Digital Media Initiativehas left the corporation, it has been revealed. Chief technology officer John Linwood was relieved of his £287,00-a-year post without a payoff six months ago but his departure could not be revealed until now due to legal reasons. Linwood was suspended from his post following the costly - and embarrassing - failure of the Digital Media Initiative, which was intended to make the corporation 'tapeless'.

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