So this stuff we are "forced" to pay for via the TV licence, but we cannot see..
Think the BBC should be privatised.. TopGear is worth a few million for a start...
BBC blocking articles from UK residents
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Re: BBC blocking articles from UK residents
#12It's a little like the BBC world service news, which is pretty good (especially compared to sky and cnn and so on), except you can't get it in the UK ... it even has the same presenters that are on the normal BBC 24 News, and 10 o'clock news! It's weird to say the least.
But it gets even more weird, as programmes made by the licence pay version of the BBC appear on the world service news. I was watching it a week ago in a hotel room and noticed they were showed Click, a programme made by the BBC in the UK. So what is that doing being shown on the commercial arm of the BBC?
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#13THIS! In the last few years the BBC have produced nothing but period dramas and drivel all of it aimed at the american market. Why make quality british programming for the British market any more when you can make a 'UK series' (6 eps) and make pure profit in the US market.
Just because you aren't a fan of various BBC programmes, doesn't mean that other people aren't either. Many people in the UK really enjoy all the period drama stuff that they show. That the US market also enjoys it is an added bonus.
Please don't project your own opinions onto the rest of the UK.
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#14A BBC Worldwide spokesman said: [...] 'Under the BBC’s Fair Trading rules commercial websites are not allowed to receive unfair promotion from the BBC’s public services. 'This prevents us from being able to provide Future content on BBC.co.uk. genres. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208251/Global-BBC-w... (daily mail, so you have to scroll way down past the righteous indignation to get the facts)
Surely they can still make the content available even if they're not allowed to promote it on the public services?
e.g. I can still buy Doctor Who DVDs in the UK, even if the BBC can't advertise them between programmes.
Re: BBC blocking articles from UK residents
#15A BBC Worldwide spokesman said: [...] 'Under the BBC’s Fair Trading rules commercial websites are not allowed to receive unfair promotion from the BBC’s public services. 'This prevents us from being able to provide Future content on BBC.co.uk. genres. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208251/Global-BBC-w... (daily mail, so you have to scroll way down past the righteous indignation to get the facts)
>> 'Under the BBC’s Fair Trading rules commercial websites are not allowed to receive unfair promotion from the BBC’s public services.
So don't promote it on the publicly funded sites. Done.
>> 'This prevents us from being able to provide Future content on BBC.co.uk. genres.
All that's saying is "we can't put this stuff on our UK sites".
I'm not criticising the parent post by the way, but this just sounds like more non-reasons to me.
Re: BBC blocking articles from UK residents
#16The confusion is because of the name.
If they called their international subsidiary, "Super Mega Global Worldwide Media Corporation", it wouldn't seem any more or less ridiculous than anyone else doing geo-targeting.
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#17I don't know if any of the brits here have ever browsed the BBC from abroad - when I was at COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009 (being at a political gathering, I was on free wifi and news sites half the time) I was shocked to see the BBC news site with adverts on it! I was laughed at by the Danes, Swedes and Canadians I was with, because obviously the BBC always had adverts on. Seriously, if the law says the BBC can't show…
The BBC brand is hugely valuable, letting a commercial site use it (even one owned by the BBC) is clearly promotion.
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#18THIS! In the last few years the BBC have produced nothing but period dramas and drivel all of it aimed at the american market. Why make quality british programming for the British market any more when you can make a 'UK series' (6 eps) and make pure profit in the US market.
Just because you aren't a fan of various BBC programmes, doesn't mean that other people aren't either. Many people in the UK really enjoy all the period drama stuff that they show. That the US market also enjoys it is an added bonus. Please don't project your own opinions onto the rest of the UK.
I don't, they cost a shit load of money to make, and unlike commercial companies have a guaranteed budget for the TV licence..
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#19If you bookmark the JS below you can create a 'button' to convert bbc.com links to bbc.com.nyud.net links as suggested by the OP:
javascript:window.location.href=window.location.href.replace("bbc.com","bbc.com.nyud.net");
A better solution would be a greasemonkey script/browser extension but this does the job for now :-)
Re: BBC blocking articles from UK residents
#20So this stuff we are "forced" to pay for via the TV licence, but we cannot see.. Think the BBC should be privatised.. TopGear is worth a few million for a start...
No thankyou. BBC worldwide does just fine earning from the channel's exports and otherwise the BBC maintains a fine standard of ad-free media.