That's pretty cool.
In a similar vein, but different vein... any chance of BBC rolling out a News24 style channel, but with a national focus.
[channel wouldn't have to be broadcast - could be broadband]
I've got sky, and sometimes watch different regional news programmes or versions of the politics show - some of the regional news programmes are excellent, but as they're all simulcast I tend to miss out on stuff.
Would it be feasible to have a channel that recycled features from these programmes, linking them with national bulletins ?
I guess it would end up a bit like "Nationwide" or "60 minutes"
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsevening.html
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsevening.html
If not as a whole channel, would it be possible to just release video of the invdividual news items on to the news.bbc site - tag 'em up or attach an RSS feed and let people pick 'n' mix the news they're interested in.
On 10/26/05, Hywel Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In view of the stagnant thread, I thought I'd add something new to the
TV-Anytime data so that people can have something new to experiment with.
It hasn't been rigorously rested and may include some errors - but this is
a stab at representing regional opt-outs using TV-Anytime. At the moment
I'm only providing English regional opt-outs for BBC One, but hopefully it
won't be too much extra work to extend to the Nations and BBC2 Nations.
Here's the way I've implemented it:
1. In the ServiceInformationTable, the main BBCOne feed is still London -
this actually reflects how the BBC have provided sustaining feeds to the
regions for a long time.
2. The English regions are also in the ServiceInformationTable - these have
an extra element describing the parent service as being the BBCOne
feed. In other words, when there's no data provided specifically for the
regional feed, assume the parent feed's data is to be used.
3. ProgramInformationTable: The metadata for all the regions is found in
the BBCOne file. As always, these are indexed by their CRIDs.
4. ProgramLocationTable: Again, a single BBCOne file is provided. The
Schedule table for the BBCOne sustaining service is initially listed,
followed by the regional opt-outs. Only the programmes that differ are
listed here, with the parent service being assumed to otherwise.
5. ContentReferencingTable: Here, for each CRID, the locations for all
regions are listed. When services are opted out, they're not listed under
the main BBCOne service.
This isn't the only way to represent regional opt-outs in files, but I
thought I'd experiment with this format, to see if it's a viable method of
distributing a complete service list for a broadcaster which has regional
opt-outs.
The first file of this format is found in the sub directory test from where
the data is usually put and is called 20051025.tar.gz The data
automatically provided every day hasn't changed.
For now, I'll only produce an occasional set of files in that directory for
you to get the gist. If someone requires a more regular service, that can
be arranged...
Hywel
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