Interesting Stuff 2008-07-23
If the question on your lips is "In which audio formats can I play ´óÏó´«Ã½ radio stations?", you may find this iPlayer Help page helpful: .
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Exciting archive news (and if you think that's an oxymoron, shame on you and read on): DG Mark Thompson tells us that former Controller of ´óÏó´«Ã½2, Roly Keating is to become the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s first Director of Archive Content "with responsibility for maximising public access to the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s invaluable archive of television, radio and multimedia content." You can find out more about the archive in a series of videos called Meet The Experts, kicked off by Adam Lee:
We've got about 4 million physical items for TV and radio. That's equivalent to 600,000 hours of TV content and about 350,000 hours of radio. So we're getting very close now to a million hours of material. We also now have a New Media archive, which is keeping a record of the content that goes out on the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s websites. We also have large sheet-music collections, we have commercial music collections. We have press cuttings going back 40 years as well. So it's a very large-scale operation.
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, Fraser Murrell explains how he's integrated ´óÏó´«Ã½ feeds for :
I wanted a quick loading simple homepage for my browser, which included the ´óÏó´«Ã½ headlines and weather. Long gone are the days of screen scraping the bbc news pages and now luckily we have access to some nice feeds!
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Our radar has only just picked up the on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Live Update:
I'd love to see some video in there as well but hey... it's still an early beta and I'm sure video is on their radar. Being a beta application, I have to point out that there are still some bugs in the application but that's exactly what public betas are for, so you can give feedback...
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And finally, if you're short of smileys and GIFs of all descriptions, there's a surfeit over at the Points Of View Message Boards as the users say goodbye to community editor Peta.
Alan Connor is co-editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet Blog.
Comment number 1.
At 24th Jul 2008, dennisjunior1 wrote:All interesting stuff....
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At 13th Jun 2009, U14033173 wrote:I really like the archive of television, radio and multimedia content that you guys have great work thank you..
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