I asked a few of the News Channel production staff up at the MGEITF about 18 months ago.
On 22 March 2010 17:51, Ian Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > Where did you hear that? > > Secret[] Private[x] Public[] > > Ian Forrester > Senior Backstage Producer > > BBC R&D North Lab, > 1st Floor Office, OB Base, > New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, > Manchester, M60 1SJ > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Brian Butterworth > *Sent:* 16 March 2010 12:49 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [backstage] Fwd: [IP] C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web > > I understand that the BBC trash the output from the News channel after 28 > days. Shame, really. > > On 16 March 2010 12:02, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Good stuff. >> >> Regards, Dave >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Dave Farber" <[email protected]> >> Date: 16 Mar 2010, 11:56 AM >> Subject: [IP] C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web >> To: "ip" <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> *From:* Richard Forno <[email protected]> >> *Date:* March 16, 2010 7:31:59 AM EDT >> *To:* Undisclosed-recipients: <>; >> *Cc:* Dave Farber <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* *C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web* >> >> March 16, 2010 >> C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web >> By BRIAN STELTER >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/television/16cspan.html?pagewanted=print >> WASHINGTON — Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, >> take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives >> to the Internet. >> >> The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five >> presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits >> and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion of >> the C-Span Video Library on Wednesday. >> >> Having free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage >> is “like being able to Google political history using the ‘I Feel Lucky’ >> button every time,” said Rachel Maddow, the liberal MSNBC host. >> >> Ed Morrissey, a senior correspondent for the conservative blog Hot Air ( >> hotair.com), said, “The geek in me wants to find an excuse to start >> digging.” >> >> No other cable network is likely to give away its precious archives on the >> Internet. (Even “Book TV” is available.) But C-Span is one of a kind, a >> creation of the cable industry that records every Congressional session, >> every White House press briefing and other acts of official Washington. >> >> The online archives reinforce what some would call the Web’s single best >> quality: its ability to recall seemingly every statement and smear. And it >> is even more powerful when the viewer can rewind the video. >> >> The C-Span founder, Brian Lamb, said in an interview here last week that >> the archives were an extension of the network’s public service commitment. >> >> “That’s where the history will be,” Mr. Lamb said. >> >> C-Span has been uploading its history for several years, working its way >> to 1987, when its archives were established at Purdue University, Mr. Lamb’s >> alma mater. >> >> The archive staff now operates from an office park in West Lafayette, >> Ind., where two machines that can turn 16 hours of tapes into digital files >> each hour have been working around the clock to move C-Span’s programs >> online. They are now finishing the 1987 catalog. >> >> “This is the archive’s coming of age, in a way, because it’s now so >> accessible,” said Robert Browning, director of the archives. >> >> Historically, the $1 million-a-year operation has paid for itself partly >> by selling videotapes and DVDs to journalists, campaign strategists and >> others. >> >> Mr. Browning acknowledges that video sales have waned as more people have >> viewed clips online. “On the other hand, there are a lot of things people >> now watch that they never would have bought,” he said. >> >> The archives’ fans include Ms. Maddow, who called it gold. “It’s raw >> footage of political actors in their native habitat, without media >> personalities mediating viewers’ access,” she wrote in an e-mail message. >> >> Similarly, Mr. Morrissey said the archives made “for a really intriguing >> reference set.” He pointed out, however, that the volume of videos “is so >> vast that finding valuable references may be a bit like looking for a needle >> in a haystack.” >> >> C-Span executives said they hoped that its search filters would be up to >> the task. Mr. Lamb said, “You can see if politicians are saying one thing >> today, and 15 years ago were saying another thing.” >> >> He added, “Journalists can feast on it.” >> >> One of the Web site’s features, the Congressional Chronicle, shows which >> members of Congress have spoken on the House and Senate floors the most, and >> the least. Each senator and representative has a profile page. Using the >> data already available, some newspapers have written about particularly >> loquacious local lawmakers. >> >> C-Span was established in 1979, but there are few recordings of its >> earliest years. Those “sort of went down the drain,” Mr. Browning said. But >> he does have about 10,000 hours of tapes from before 1987, and he will begin >> reformatting them for the Web soon. Those tapes include Ronald Reagan’s >> presidential campaign speeches and the Iran-Contra hearings. >> >> In a tour of the site last week, Mr. Browning said the various uses of the >> archives were hard to predict. He found that a newly uploaded 1990 United >> Nations address by the Romanian president Ion Iliescu was quickly discovered >> and published by several Romanian bloggers. >> >> While C-Span does not receive Nielsen ratings, a recent poll by Fairleigh >> Dickinson University found that 52 percent of voters said they watched it at >> least once in a while. The poll did not distinguish among C-Span’s three >> channels. The original one, C-Span, shows every House of Representatives >> session; C-Span2 does the same for the Senate; and C-Span3 shows committee >> hearings, briefings, conferences and other events. >> >> The archives of all three channels have been mostly uploaded, but they can >> only be streamed. Mr. Browning said video downloads were on his agenda. >> Users can embed the videos on other Web sites and clip small sound bites for >> repeat viewing. >> >> The clips can help citizens gain access to important information, of >> course, but they can also be entertaining. >> >> Last month one of the top clips on the C-Span site was from President >> Obama’s health care summit meeting, but it wasn’t of a comment about >> proposed legislation, it was of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. caught on >> a microphone saying, “It’s easy being vice president.” A spokesman for the >> vice president told reporters that Mr. Biden was “obviously joking.” >> >> Regardless, the archives are a reminder that the cameras are always >> recording. For politicians or anyone else captured by C-Span, Mr. Browning >> said, “there’s no more deniability.” >> >> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/> <http://www.listbox.com> >> >> > > > -- > > Brian Butterworth > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover > advice, since 2002 > > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
