Tony Ageh
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Tony Ageh in 2012
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| Born | 1959 |
| Occupation | Controller of Archive Development |
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Tony Ageh (born 1959) is the BBC's Controller of Archive Development[1] having previously been Controller, BBC Internet, bbc.co.uk.
His first job as a school leaver was production assistant on Home Organist, working for Richard Desmond, now the proprietor of Express Newspapers.
He then moved to Publishing Holdings, which owned list titles including What Mortgage and What Telephone.[2] With four colleagues he set up and ran publishing co-operative Brass Tacks, publishers of Mortgage Magazine, during which time he helped football fanzine When Saturday Comes to gain national distribution and upgrade its production to magazine quality. Also during the 1980s he joined Richard Branson's short-lived London listings magazine, Event, set up while Time Out journalists were on strike, then became publisher of City Limits magazine,[2] rival to listings magazine Time Out, which eventually ceased publication in 1993.
He was invited to join the Guardian Media Group in 1990[3] by Jim Markwick, then managing director.[2] By the mid-1990s he was head of product development at The Guardian where he launched "The Guide",[3] a listings supplement,[3] Wired UK and introduced online content to a UK national newspaper for the first time. From The Guardian he rejoined Branson to work on the launch of virgin.net, originally a portal for the Virgin group of companies, now part of Virgin Media.
He joined the BBC after quitting the UK listings and information service UpMyStreet in 2002.[2][4] At the BBC he led the team which devised and developed the BBC iPlayer, which necessitated no fewer than 84 internal BBC presentations.[3] In October 2008 he was appointed as the Controller of BBC Archive Development.[1]
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| Unknown | Controller, Internet, BBC 2003 – 2008 |
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| New title | Controller of Archive Development, BBC 2008 – present |
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Speakers: Tony Ageh", Media Festival Arts 2010
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Jemima Kiss "Tony Ageh on the BBC Archive and how to remake the internet", The Guardian, 1 November 2010
- ↑ Owen Gibson "Co-founder quits Upmystreet.com", Media Guardian, 8 August 2002
