Great! Where can I sign up? There are several things I would love to watch again (That no longer gets repeated/available to buy/download) from the 50's onwards.
I wonder if the Beeb can do this in conjunction with the Television South West Film and Television Archive? Long live TSW!!! Tim Bishop City College Plymouth Student Union LGBT Officer http://www.cityplym.ac.uk http://www.timbionline.googlepages.com On 18/12/06, Brendan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here's the press release: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/12_december/ 15/archive.shtml The Broadcast article probably doesn't have much more info than that. One thing to keep in mind is that opening up the archive may need a Public Value Test, which would mean that after the trial we have to close down the public-facing service while the BBC Trust evaluate the proposal, which takes months -- in the same way that we ran the iMP as a trial two or three years ago, and now have to wait for approval before launching the-thing-that-may-one-day-soon-be-called BBC iPlayer. The wheels turn slowly here, but they do turn! Brendan. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Dillon Sent: 18 December 2006 12:21 To: [email protected] Subject: [backstage] BBC to launch six-month trial of online archive next year...? Today's Lovelacemedia is reporting "The BBC is to launch a six-month trial of its online archive next year by making 1,000 hours of content available on-demand to 20,000 test participants. The Corporation's director of future media and technology Ashley Highfield said of the move to eventually place over one million hours of content on the internet: "Our goal is to turn the BBC into an open cultural and creative resource for the nation." I got this link but unfortunately there's a subscription fee involved, I'll see if I can find someone with one. http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcastnowarticle.aspx?intStoryID=166477 Is the same story as reported in October: http://www.spokenword.ac.uk/spokenwordmatters/2006/10/06/bbc-to-pilot-on line-archive-2/ Soudns great, would anyone care to comment? Cheers - 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/[email protected]/ - 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/[email protected]/
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