The BBC World Service is on both XM and Sirius, and BBC Radio 1 is
timeshifted on Sirius (so that the breakfast show is on at breakfast
time etc). I don't believe that Radio 4 is on any of the services.
On 11/8/05, Millie Niss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know exactly what iMP is, so I hope I am not totally off-base
here...
However, I am a (US) American who would defnitely be willing to pay (if the
price were reasonable) for BBC content. My main interest is the radio
programming, which someone here said isn't a problem to distribute, but I am
also somewhat interested in BBC TV.
Right now, I cannot even get The World Service Radio in English _on the
radio_ during most of the day. The World Service is broadcast for only a
few hours a day on my local public radio station (this actually means
private, non commercial -- US Public Radio is nonprofit but privately
owned operated, supported by individual and corporate donations and a very
small amount of indirect government subsidies). In the past, Americans
could get World Service radio directly from the BBC on other bands (MW or
LW), but now that isn't beamend towards the U.S. The web site provides
streaming and some on-demand access to programs, but not full archives or
downloadable versions of most programs. (I have enjoyed the podcasting
trial of From Our Own Correspondent, for example, but that is an
experiment.)
I quite understand that the BBC is funded by UK Licensing fees and that they
cannot afford to offer me all the services for free that license-payers get
for their money. But I would be happy to pay for my content if I could
afford it. After all, I donate money to my public radio stations and pay
for cable TV and Internet access, so I am accustomed to paying for media
content. I cannot get the BBC content at any price right now, at least not
easily. (One issue is that I do not have broadband, so that maybe iMP would
not help me. Broadband is much more prevalent in Europe and Asia than in
the U.S., and so what I really want is to get my BBC content on the radio
and TV!)
Is the BBC Radio (and if so, which stations?) available on satellite radio?
That is quite expensive impractical (especially for non automobile use)
still but I'd consider subscribing to satellite radio if I could get the
World Service and Radio 4.
Millie
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From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [backstage] iMP
Releasing iMP to the world would almost end piracy of the BBC's content.
Releasing it to the UK would still keep all the BBC's content available
over the net through the standard ways. What better way to maintain
control and quality than to irradicate the need for piracy of BBC
content..?
I actually wouldn't object to paying for this as a seperate service and
I wouldnt be suprised if this is not the way forward for non-uk
citizens. Seems fair enough, we pay our £££ per year and if Joel from
America wants it, he can but it'll cost him a percentage of the standard
lic. fee.
Andrew Bowden wrote:
I'm at work so I can't check at the moment, but ISTR that my telly
licence has a unique reference number with it.
This is going back a few years (say about 3-4). I used to buy my
license from the old Post Office, and those didn't have a unique
number on them. The ones you get sent by TV Licensing do.
Hmm, I didn't know that. I wonder how you get them to move
the licence to
a new property when you move house if you don't have a
licence number?
The online form[1] has the licence number as a required field.
I remember filling in that form back in October 2001 and thinking
exactly the same! IIRC, I just put down that I had no license number.
But there wasn't a knock on my door, and when it came up for renewal,
the letter came from the right address.
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