Actually I am just downloading BBC London news now. However I cannot see
any other regions available on iPlayer. The usual London bias I
suppose ;-)

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 18:29 +0100, Christopher Woods wrote:
> Regions output online is somewhat hit and miss. For example an album launch
> I was involved with was covered on BBC London evening news - a 3/4 minute VT
> segment which I finally managed to beg a copy of on DVD and it was
> completely different from the accompanying video which ended up in a Flash
> player accompanying the Online articles about the album launch.
> (Interestingly the audio was dual mono - ambient sound on L channel and
> overdubbed narrator on R channel? Not sure if that was a snafu by the
> offline editor, but it was a very deliberate thing to do - be interested to
> know if that's how News archives ENG material for the double whammy of
> preserving a clean ambient track for B Roll or just so they can readjust the
> narration...)
> 
> However I've seen local articles reproduced in full on the site - perhaps
> ours was different because there was so much footage taken live at the
> launch they had enough to do several videos, but I don't often see entire
> VTs transcoded to the web for inline players. Shame, because I quite like
> watching the Regions stuff (still tune in to BBC1 South sometimes for the
> regional news from where I used to live for a long time). I bet it'd be a
> workflow nightmare trying to get it all ingested properly though.
> 
> Shame the BBC London news isn't encoded after the main national news
> broadcasts any more though, it was nice being able to watch after the main
> broadcast ended on the iPlayer.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] 
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony McKale
> > Sent: 23 August 2010 10:27
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [backstage] regional news - footage available online?
> > 
> > Locla radio should be on iplayer
> > 
> > ->http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio
> > 
> > Enjoy the link while you can
> > 
> > Ant
> > 
> > 
> > On 22/08/2010 12:10, "Phil Lewis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Jim,
> > > 
> > > I believe you can often find the local news for up to one 
> > day after on 
> > > the local BBC site for that region. Last time I checked 
> > (incidentally 
> > > for exactly the same reason as you) it was some awful wmv or real 
> > > stream in very low or extremely low quality. Local news 
> > doesn't appear 
> > > on iPlayer AFAIK.
> > > 
> > > No idea about redux.
> > > 
> > > I personally would love to see local news on iPlayer.
> > > 
> > > best Regards
> > > 
> > > Phil Lewis
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:29 +0000, jim tonge wrote:
> > >> Hi all.
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> As the Blast tour moves around the UK, myself and my 
> > colleagues are 
> > >> frequently interviewed on local TV news and radio. There 
> > was a very 
> > >> funny appearance by a colleague yesterday I'd love to get the 
> > >> broadcast of...
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> I'm pretty sure local news isn't accessible through Redux, right?
> > >> Anyone got any idea how I can get access to this footage either 
> > >> internally or externally?
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> Ta,
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> Jim
> > >> 
> > > 
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