I think the BBC is the greatest UK national treasure. Fortunately, it
has always been widely available in the places where I have lived. In
the Netherlands, it was just part of our cable package (at least BBC1
and 2 plus Prime and of course BBC World). Here in Spain we only get
BBC World which is better than nothing but a bit of a bummer since it
means I can no longer watch Match of the Day on Sunday mornings, which
used to be a significant part of my Sunday ritual.
As for rights etc., as far as I can tell the main restrictions are on
football, which is why you cannot view certain video streams on the
web site if you access it from outside the UK. I have occasionally
managed to view such contents by going through an open proxy with a UK
IP address, but it is a bit clunky.
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:33 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>
> There are tidbits of information on the bbc web site indicating that
> performance and viewing agreements limit the overseas availability
> of UK
> on-shore tv programs. The site was silent about the identity of the
> parties
> with whom these "agreements" were made. I did not see any specific
> reference
> to the "availability to bbc licence fee payers only" issue. The only
> bbc tv
> programs up and running on our tv are the world news broadcasts and
> occasionally Tony Robinson's worst jobs in the world shows. Other
> than those
> news broadcasts I am not aware of any other bbc live broadcast
> programs in
> Canada.
>
> jh
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 2:09 AM
> Subject: [OM] Re: Genius of Photography
>
>
>>
>> Isn't that normal, John? That only licence fee-payers see BBC
>> brodacasts, or would you normally be able to watch live broadcasts in
>> Canada?
>>
>> I ask because this has recently been the subject of discussions on
>> the
>> Mac Café Yahoo group.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 29 Sep 2008, at 00:22, John Hudson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My on screen message said that the watchlive video was only
>>> available in the
>>> UK.
>>>
>>> jh
>>
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