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That is a super aggressive timeframe for when media companies started caring about online streaming. And even after streaming became a consideration, it is not
by slg 5y ago
That is a super aggressive timeframe for when media companies started caring about online streaming. And even after streaming became a consideration, it is not a consideration for absolutely every project. Some media is produced without the intent to ever stream it and preemptively securing the streaming rights is therefore an added and unnecessary cost.
- tpmx 5y agoNot really. Pretty much every single national broadcaster of note used Realnetworks streaming in 1995-1996. They just didn't care for archiving, just like they don't care about that today.
- slg 5y agoI'm American so I can't say I'm too familiar with how the BBC was streaming content in the 90s, but RealNetworks didn't have video streaming technology until 1997[1] so the BBC surely wasn't using them for anything but maybe radio in 1995-1996. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNetworks#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNetworks#History
- tpmx 5y agoI'm talking about radio/audio. Sorry if that wasn't obvious.
- slg 5y agoOh, that certainly changes the timeline. The linked BBC Programme Index includes both television and radio so there was no reason for anyone here to assume you were only talking about radio.
- tpmx 5y agoNP. I talked about radio in the top level comment and then loads of people commented and the comment tree grew very large quickly.