[DannyS]

Wow. What ridiculous arguments. You don't think TV shows get archived?

Storing every show as Lossless audio (44kHz/16-bit, FLAC) would equate to ~8GB per day or 2.75TB per year (per station).

Let's say they have triple redundancy and enterprise-class "Raid edition" drives. Storing one radio station's output would cost £900 per year. There are 59 BBC radio stations, so that would total £53,000 in storage costs per year. The BBC has a budget of £5 billion per year.

Hate to break it to you, but the BBC does archive everything, and its online for certain BBC employees. It started in about 2007, is every radio & tv broadcast since then, broken down into transmissions (i.e shows) and is in MPEG-2 and MP3 format, for radio.

[neilt0]

Hate to break it to you, but the BBC does archive everything, and its online for certain BBC employees. It started in about 2007, is every radio & tv broadcast since then, broken down into transmissions (i.e shows) and is in MPEG-2 and MP3 format, for radio.

Great, well someone needs to tell Aled, then. And they should really switch to a lossless format for audio.

[dimtimjim]

Hate to break it to you, but the BBC does archive everything, and its online for certain BBC employees. It started in about 2007, is every radio & tv broadcast since then, broken down into transmissions (i.e shows) and is in MPEG-2 and MP3 format, for radio.

You missed the 'ner, nerr, ner, ner, nerrrrrrr' of the end of that...

[Nicola_Red]

Hate to break it to you, but the BBC does archive everything, and its online for certain BBC employees. It started in about 2007, is every radio & tv broadcast since then, broken down into transmissions (i.e shows) and is in MPEG-2 and MP3 format, for radio.

Great, well someone needs to tell Aled, then. And they should really switch to a lossless format for audio.

Perhaps as Danny's so knowledgeable he could post this in Ask Aled, see what Aled's response is...

[DannyS]

Apologies was not meant to be snooty!

It is a very specific project within the BBC, so I am not sure of its availability to BBC staff etc. But it is there.

[bmstinton93]

Hate to break it to you, but the BBC does archive everything, and its online for certain BBC employees. It started in about 2007, is every radio & tv broadcast since then, broken down into transmissions (i.e shows) and is in MPEG-2 and MP3 format, for radio.

Great, well someone needs to tell Aled, then. And they should really switch to a lossless format for audio.

Perhaps as Danny's so knowledgeable he could post this in Ask Aled, see what Aled's response is...

Or alternatively if he's that knowledgeable he could get us a login and password for it...

[chrysostom]

Woah, it's got cold in here!

DannyS seemed ok to me, and just offered a bit of knowledge...

[Nicola_Red]

Woah, it's got cold in here!

DannyS seemed ok to me, and just offered a bit of knowledge...

I think it was the opening bit of the post:

Hate to break it to you

that seemed a bit patronising.

[DannyS]

Either way, apologies.

I am sure Aled knows about the archive for TV and Radio if he needs it! Won't help with show jingles/clips though really, of course.