Can I just point out that BBC Radio streams do not have the SWF Verification issue for reasons of existing syndication strategies. -- Alan Ogilvie
[email protected] Platform Manager Future Media & Technology | Audio & Music | Mobile Room 818, BBC Henry Wood House, 3-6 Langham Place, London, W1B 3DF ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 16 April 2010 06:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] iPlayer and open source On 15 April 2010 21:48, Scot McSweeney-Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 20:42, David Greaves <[email protected]> wrote: > Like many people who watch TV you mistake yourself for the BBC's customer. > Perhaps you should consider how much more sense it makes when you consider > yourself their product. While that's certainly true for commercial TV, Au contraire. For the commercial channels is the advertisers who are the customers. The viewers are the "eyeballs" delivered to them. The programmes are there as fodder to get the punters to watch the adverts. This applies to most basic-tier subscription channels (the subscription you pay goes to the gatekeeper, not the broadcaster). The only people who are "customers" of TV in the UK are subscribers to Sky Sports and Sky Movies, as only here are you a customer in any real sense. you can't really say that about the BBC. Saying you're the BBC's product is like saying you're the local library's product or the police service's product's or any other publicly funded service's product - it's a bit absurd. However, while we're not the product, I'm not convinced we're viewed as the BBC's customer either. Scot - 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]/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
