SP
Many educational establishments (who hold an appropriate license to do so - ERA+ I think) have similar systems which cache a week (or month) of Freeview broadcasts, with the ability to retrieve and transfer specific programmes to more permanent storage on an individual basis. Planet e-Stream is a popular piece of software for this.
There is also a service called Box of Broadcasts (BoB) run by the British Universities Film and Video Council which some universities subscribe to which operates on a similar basis, except it doesn't have regional variations.
Then there's BBC Redux which has BBC TV and radio output from 2007 onwards. It records off air, splitting up the MPEG transport streams that are sent for transmission, so unlike old style 'off air' recordings they're of a good quality.
Many educational establishments (who hold an appropriate license to do so - ERA+ I think) have similar systems which cache a week (or month) of Freeview broadcasts, with the ability to retrieve and transfer specific programmes to more permanent storage on an individual basis. Planet e-Stream is a popular piece of software for this.
There is also a service called Box of Broadcasts (BoB) run by the British Universities Film and Video Council which some universities subscribe to which operates on a similar basis, except it doesn't have regional variations.
EL
^ this was basically my job in a university for 4 years. The BUFVC do a marvellous service: www.bufvc.ac.uk
BH
There is also the World Service Archive site, with audio going back 45 years available for anyone to listen to.
RS
Rob_Schneider
I don't know the specifics of Ofcom rules for television, but for radio the rules regarding the recording of programmes as transmitted basically means recording the entire station output as transmitted 24/7, not just specific programmes or clean feeds (i.e. studio output without ads). For example at the station I work at we record from the output of the last bit of equipment in our broadcast chain (the audio processor), which is what is also encoded for transmission. I know of many stations which go one step further and record what they receive from the transmitter, so that they also have any transmission faults that occur. As stated earlier Ofcom require these to be kept for 48 days, although I think its fair to say most stations keep them for much longer if not forever.
Assuming the rules are similar for television (correct me if I'm wrong), ITV would record 24/7 the entire output of each of the ITV regions (and the other ITV channels). This would happen either at the playout centres (Chiswick and Leeds) by feeding their TX output into the recording server, or by recording off air as received from a transmitter/satellite, which I suspect would also be recorded at the playout centres but could take place anywhere in practice.
Assuming the rules are similar for television (correct me if I'm wrong), ITV would record 24/7 the entire output of each of the ITV regions (and the other ITV channels). This would happen either at the playout centres (Chiswick and Leeds) by feeding their TX output into the recording server, or by recording off air as received from a transmitter/satellite, which I suspect would also be recorded at the playout centres but could take place anywhere in practice.
In most RSLs I've come across, the recording has been off-desk (but a complete feed) however for full-time operations it's universally off-air.