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BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by easytiger »

JdeBP wrote: post #77
easytiger wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Providing different services on different channels was partly the point. No, BBC one's remit is not to just show fluffy nonsense It's remit is in fact: > BBC One’s remit is to be the BBC’s most popular mixed-genre television service across the UK, offering a wide range of high quality programmes. It should be the BBC’s primary outlet for major UK and international events and it should reflect the whole of the UK in…

No. The BBC One service description is actually: > a mixed-genre channel, with versions for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and variations for English regions and the Channel Islands, providing a very broad range of programmes to a mainstream audience; As I said, the different channels are different services, which is partly the point. BBC Four's service description is, for example: > a channel providing an inte…

My item was a direct quote from the BBC trust's description of the channel remit. Indeed it was the remit in full

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by JdeBP »

pmachinery wrote: post #74
iso1631 wrote: post #51

Anything the BBC releases has to pass a market distortion test to make sure that it doesn't affect the competition - even commercial projects built by the commercial arm of the BBC (which doesn't receive any license fee funding) BBC Jam for example was a project back in 2006 offering multi-media educational resources free across the UK. This was 2 years before Khan Academy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/465529…

That seems quite a contrast to the early 80s, when they sponsored/commissioned their own branded home computer, promoted it on half the TV channels in the country and got it into every school in the country.

Although in ~40 years' retrospect, especially in discussions on Hacker News and elsewhere of modern IT education where you'll find people reminiscing on how they learned computing when they were young, it turns out to have been very much in line with a goal of promoting and supporting learning. I don't know what the Charter said about that goal back in the 1980s. It would be interesting to read what the BBC's Royal Charter said over time.

Conversely, another ~40 years into the past takes us back to the time when there was a BBC Empire Service. So there's more than one contrast to be had as one looks through history.

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by smichel17 »

dylz wrote: post #2

Non-blogspam url: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk (2018) dang, is it possible to change the URL for this submission? The site linked loads 30+ ad slots and attempts to seemingly canvas fingerprint users.

If you'd like dang to see this, you should email him.

> If you want to let us know about something, the only reliable way to do it is to email hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411945

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by easytiger »

pmachinery wrote: post #78
easytiger wrote: post #66

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> Are you saying that Labour controls print media and the BBC in the UK? No, how did you arrive at that invalid summation?

Possibly because: "The unelected Labour opposition proposed activist shills" is difficult to understand.

How so? It seems unambiguously straightforward to me on reflection.

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by JdeBP »

easytiger wrote: post #81
JdeBP wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. The BBC One service description is actually: > a mixed-genre channel, with versions for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and variations for English regions and the Channel Islands, providing a very broad range of programmes to a mainstream audience; As I said, the different channels are different services, which is partly the point. BBC Four's service description is, for example: > a channel providing an inte…

My item was a direct quote from the BBC trust's description of the channel remit. Indeed it was the remit in full

Well I've gone one better than you by quoting the formal public service description that is part of the formal list of "UK Public Services" under the Agreement between the BBC and the U.K. Government. There are eight television services, not just BBC One as you had it, and they are different services on different channels.

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by mikro2nd »

JdeBP wrote: post #20
Dig1t wrote: post #13

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Wow this sounds very funny and pretty interesting. I can't find anything about it from some cursory DDG/Googling. Would love to read about it if you have any links.

Ah, you don't recognize the plot of an episode of Father Ted . It's titled "Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep".

Which title, in turn, is a pastiche of a bloody awful 1970's pop-song.

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by chrisseaton »

JdeBP wrote: post #56
bb123 wrote: post #47

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Thats very interesting, you seem to know a lot about how the BBC is structured. Do you mind if I ask how the for-profit prohibition of their charter aligns with the ad-supported international BBC News websites and broadcasts on BBC Worldwide?

I know as much as anyone else who has actually read the Royal Charter. (-: The Charter covers "UK Public Services" and the "World Service", as does the Agreement with the Minister of the Crown. The World Service is a specific thing, which you can read about for yourself. * So public service broadcasting to other countries isn't within the terms of the Charter. * Commercial activities are prohibited to the BBC itself.…

> It's quite different to the WWW site that is seen within the U.K..

I browse both regularly and they’re basically the same content just with an advert. Not really sure what you’re talking about.

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by chrisseaton »

easytiger wrote: post #55
ArgyleSound wrote: post #52

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> The unelected Labour opposition ???

*failed to win the election, unelected to government

They were elected... to be the opposition. They’re the elected opposition. If they were unelected they couldn’t be the opposition.

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by robjan »

chrisseaton wrote: post #88
JdeBP wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know as much as anyone else who has actually read the Royal Charter. (-: The Charter covers "UK Public Services" and the "World Service", as does the Agreement with the Minister of the Crown. The World Service is a specific thing, which you can read about for yourself. * So public service broadcasting to other countries isn't within the terms of the Charter. * Commercial activities are prohibited to the BBC itself.…

> It's quite different to the WWW site that is seen within the U.K.. I browse both regularly and they’re basically the same content just with an advert. Not really sure what you’re talking about.

Many parts are completely inaccessible from abroad.
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