At 14:41 +0100 23/6/06, Adam Leach wrote:
Quoting Tim Cowlishaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 6/23/06, Adam Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is another point of data collected and gathered using
tax/license fee
payers money, yet we can't access it without paying substantial
fees.
I should point out here that BDS are not funded by the license fee,
they are a private company, so this may not be true.
Yeah, i understand that point, but the BBC ultimately creates the TV
schedules and then has agreements with other companies to sell this
information.
Without Backstage we would have no free access to TV Listings, so
thanks Backstage.
Adam
My understanding is that the TV and radio schedule data goes from the
BBC to BDS and then BDS sell it on (and indeed it then goes back to
the BBC).
Of it is a 10 years since I worked at the BBC, so things may have changed.
Gordo
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