Wot that pastime you only end up doing if you really, really have nothing better to to do instead?
(okay, 'Thick of it' is alright...) R --- On Tue, 12/15/09, Dominic Smith <d...@domsmith.co.uk> wrote: > From: Dominic Smith <d...@domsmith.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [backstage] What is TV? > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 5:30 PM > From the International > Telecommunications Union Radio Regulations: > > Television: A form of telecommunication for the > transmission of > transient images of fixed or moving objects. > > (where 'telecommunication' is defined in the annex to the > Constitution > of the International Telecommunication Union as: 'Any > transmission, > emission or reception of signs, signals, writings, images > and sounds or > intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or > other > electromagnetic systems.') > > Source: > <http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=5f7baa88c0b0605780a2e4f8eaee9eaa&rgn=div8&view=text&node=47:1.0.1.1.3.1.218.1&idno=47> > > Note that television does not have to be a broadcast. My > amateur radio > licence permits the transmission of television on a broadly > one-to-one > basis, and broadcasting (one-to-many) is specifically > prohibited. > > I think that that defintion of 'television' probably still > holds. It > would presumably mean that iPlayer, and other streamed > media, content > _is_ television, given that wire is specifically included > in the > defintion of transmission. I'm not a lawyer, however, > and wouldn't want > to get into the debate about whether watersheds and other > TV regulations > should apply online (and, if so, whether the timezone at > the server or > client counts...) > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
