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Subject: Re: And what about BBC7?

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mediaman

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Date Posted: 03:55:52 01/15/04 Thu
In reply to: mark1 's message, "Re: And what about BBC7?" on 03:59:31 01/13/04 Tue

>Basic intention for starting this thread was to find
>out how many Brits living abroad are interested in
>changing the way BBC distribute its radio channels via
>satellite.According to number of posts, the demand is
>huge and that's a good thing.Maybe even someone from
>the BBC reads posts about the issue on this and other
>forums. Judging by how swiftly they started encrypting
>the Eutelsat feeds after they were discovered, they
>really do:(.There is one thing we can do: send more
>e-mails and discuss the thing till we get all of them
>back.By the way, go to BBC Charter Review web-site,
>send them your response and look at Annex A
>(http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/consultation/annexA
>.html).Below the tables are some very interesting
>commitments quoted from The BBC's Statements of
>Programme Pledges. Particurarly one under the name
>Universal availability of all publicly-funded services.

It seems that all radios will never be on europewide beam (R5 Live, 5 Live Sports Extra) because there are copyright issues.
I always wonder what can be copyrighted on radio transmission of sports - the sound and atmosphere and screams of the sporting event or to be more serious the real time information about the action or results? And second question there are no restrictions (as far as i know) and you can listen to 5 live and 5 live s. extra via internet. How is it possible???
But we still can email BBC and to try force them to give all possible (not restricted by copyright) radios back.

BBC at Eutelsat were most likely uplinked by NTL and had nothing to do with BBC directly. But I think BBC asked NTL to encrypt the signals. Because there is no other explanation why they were not scrambled from the beginning of feed transmission.

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