Can we guess that someone in the BBC Trust has a family member who is in an orchestra? I say, either Podcast Radio 3's output, or close the station down and give it's bandwidth (160Mb/s) on DAB to stations that deserve it, like BBC 7 and 1Xtra. Brian Butterworth HYPERLINK "http://www.ukfree.tv/"www.ukfree.tv Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 01 February 2007 21:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] Classical music on iPlayer I wondered about that aswell, most of the work is out of copyright, so why shouldn't the BBC (or anyone else) give it away for free? And the gibberish about markets is a red herring, it's not the BBCs job to support the market (whatevr OffCom says) it's the BBCs job to serve the public. All the market players came in after the BBC, so they knew what they were in for, if they don't have a sustainable bussines model, that's their problem, not that of the Beeb. On 01/02/07, Frank Wales <HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Speaking of iPlayer, by the way, why is classical music singled out as deserving special protection? Is it because some particularly vociferous second fiddlers went doo-lally when the BBC gave away recordings of Beethoven's symphonies the other year? Or is there a good reason? It just seems to me that you could level the same argument, about people accumulating a collection of classical music that reduces their buying of CDs and stuff, against things like the cover CD on 'BBC Music' magazine, which always contains decent recordings of complete works that you can keep. If anything, surely having the BBC's orchestras providing good free recordings would *stimulate* the market for classical music, since they would raise awareness of it while leaving money in people's pockets to buy more of it from others. It's not as if the BBC could actually give away recordings of *all* classical music, after all, even if they wanted to. -- Frank Wales [HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the HYPERLINK "http://backstage.bbc.co.uk"backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit HYPERLINK "http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html"http://backst age.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: HYPERLINK "http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/"http://www.mail-arch ive.com/[email protected]/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.17/661 - Release Date: 30/01/2007 23:30 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.17/661 - Release Date: 30/01/2007 23:30
