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Why isn't everything the BBC has ever made available on a streaming service for license free payers? I'd love to able to watch the TV news for days when interes
by parenthesis 5y ago
Why isn't everything the BBC has ever made available on a streaming service for license free payers? I'd love to able to watch the TV news for days when interesting things happened; old dramas with `low production values' but actual acting and writing and stories and no constant gratuitous cuts and close-ups …
- deadbunny 5y agoI believe there is historical reasons. When they started iPlayer they were told they coudln't just put up everything the BBC had produced in it's history as it would be "an unfair commercial advantage" or some other bullshit.
- M2Ys4U 5y ago>Why isn't everything the BBC has ever made available on a streaming service for license free payers? 1. Rights issues. The BBC doesn't actually own the bundle of exclusive rights to a lot of the content that they commission. The rights belong to the independent production companies that actually make the shows. 2. Regulation. The BBC has often been blocked by regulators from having a comprehensive SVoD service other than for catch-up, because it was seen as a threat to commercial entities (like Netflix). 3. Missing archives. Not so much an issue these days, but historically archiving was not a priority, at all. Many programmes were broadcast and then forgotten about. There are episodes of classic Doctor Who which are just lost to time now, for example.