Just watched the first episode of Helicopter Heroes
Oh, I must have missed it, when was it on?
Just watched the first episode of Helicopter Heroes
Oh, I must have missed it, when was it on?
I hope you weren't talking about me!lol, messy code some of you.
I know, I have good eyes
He will probably talk about us on TG!! woo
Just a quick clarification on the whole Talking About it On Air thing from someone that works in New Media at the BBC - not official BBC opinion just my take on the way things seem to work.
There is no legal reason why they couldn't mention final gear and give out the URL on the show - they mentioned Top Gayer and others but given the amount of Torrent talk and links to torrent files BBC bosses wouldn't allow it.
Inside the BBC 'linking out' is actively encouraged - it was an order from above - BBC Trust etc.. that we shouldn't operate closed walls - that we should be refering to sites outside bbc.co.uk and sending traffic elsewhere to help promote the internet as a whole.
As for not being allowed to mention topgear.com - that's a heavily political area.
Basically the BBC has a commercial arm called BBC Worldwide that deals with international rights, DVD licencing, product licencing, magazines and commercial websites.
If the BBC were to mention Top Gear magazine, a commercial entity run by its commercial arm on BBC TWO - a public service network paid for by the licence fee then it would be accused of advertising and using licence fee money to help its commercial arm - which would in turn lead to a massive investigation into the BBCs commercial activities and how they affect other parts of the commercial sector.
told you it was a complicated political mess.
Once upon a time the Radio Times used to be advertised on TV with the words 'Other listings magazines are available' and at one time topgear.com would have been the URL used on the show - but as it takes advertising and affects the commercial sector - that can't happen anymore.
congrats every1 - and you code geeks, don;t make me crank out my pascal
i'm excellent in MLA formatting
Ahhhhhhhhh! I'm so late to this party but that is SO FANTASTIC!
Series 10 is going to blow our minds, isn't it?