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Bvsh Hovse,

I agree with you, far too many people come on forums like this pretending they actually know what's happening, when they don't. The other poster could easily have said a 'power failure' which I assume would be far more accurate.

I was very mislead by the post..... and did wonder how a server failure could produce 'user visible' problems.....I assume the Beeb has plenty of redundancy....although not with its power, it would appear

The funny thing is, Stevep, I actually DID know what was going on. But thanks for the confidence.

Bvsh: I think we'll just have to, as you say, agree to disagree. Perhaps I was being a bit over cautious and in trying to not post what exactly had happened, I over simplified. But either way, it wasn't worth the hassle to post the info, and in future I'll think twice about sharing info I have.

What's the point in sharing if all I get is people having a pop, eh?

Staggered by the quality of these new streams (the Beta tester downloads appear to be in the higher bitstreams quality too).

I await the imminent HD launch eagerly.

If anyone requires a programme to watch and test these downloads on try 'Yellowstone'.

The old /music site has been replaced by an expanded version of the beta site.

Blog article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/03/bbc_music_website_relaunch.html

I think you'll find our staff intranet and internal staff publications are just that... for staff. They're not 'public', whether you think they are or not.

World Service Channel Site relaunched today, with an AAC+ stream of World Service. As the national stations are still in beta with AAC streaming this might be the first full service launch unless I'm mistaken.



Agreed that notionally these things may be internal, but the reality is different. An awful lot of people not on the BBC payrole have access to the BBC Intranet, and non BBC staff can subscribe to ariel for £1 a week if they are not able to pick up a copy from the reception of their nearest BBC building - or are lucky enough to find a copy on the Central Line among the other discarded free London evening newspapers.

I'm sure I've seen other BBC staff comments on Ariel articles here, so I'm not the only one with this view. But I'd rather agree that we take a different position on this then carry on arguing between us for 5 pages like a thread from a certain other message board.

Ariel is freely available for anyone who waltzes in off the street at the BBC Nottingham reception desk.

The articles are also available for anyone to read online if they so wish.

So it is quite public, although AFAIK you can't get on Gateway without a BBC IP address (or an electronic key fob, if you're logging in from home) and a login password.

And to sum up how internal Ariel is, they're currently reading bits out on Moyles right now...

Blog posting on the Manchester Evening News website:
http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/themancunianway/2009/03/salford_students_hear_of_bbc_o.html

Huge promotional image for The Wire on the BBC homepage at the moment... click on it and you get taken to...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jnwnv

This page. Hardly likely to encourage you to watch, is it?
/programmes is an excellent resource, but it's not much cop as a salesman.

The main page for a show on programmes has improved though.

Couldn't agree more - I've noticed the same thing for many shows in recent months.

Very poor effort.