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Date Posted: 18:48:07 08/25/03 Mon
Author: Denis
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And you thought the ABC replaying all of Dr Who was impressive...

From BBC news:

Dyke to open up BBC archive

Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, has announced plans to give the public full access to all the corporation's programme archives.

Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet.

The service, the BBC Creative Archive, would be free and available to everyone, as long as they were not intending to use the material for commercial purposes, Mr Dyke added.

"The BBC probably has the best television library in the world," said Mr Dyke, who was speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

"Up until now this huge resource has remained locked up, inaccessible to the public because there hasn't been an effective mechanism for distribution.

"But the digital revolution and broadband are changing all that.

"For the first time there is an easy and affordable way of making this treasure trove of BBC content available to all."

He predicted that everyone would benefit from the online archive, from people accessing the internet at home, children and adults using public libraries, to students at school and university.

No word on exactly when it'll happen or what form it'll take in the end, but still, that's one hell of an awesome resource to have available free to everyone...

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Hly fck! (NT) -- Tim, 10:31:39 08/26/03 Tue