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Post by iankarley on Nov 1, 2007 1:24:00 GMT
Hello All
Is there an official way of returning Radio Programmes to the BBC now Treasure Hunt seems to of finished.
Also does anyone know how well the BBC online catalogue reflects the contents of their Radio archive.
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Post by Ian Gutteridge on Nov 1, 2007 17:17:34 GMT
More to the point - would they be interested?
The BBC online catalogue in no way reflects the actual contents of the Radio Archives which are spread throughout the UK.
My understanding is that they are only interested in material of restorable quality being sent to them.
The private Radio collectors however would be interested in the material and would do their best to restore it. Just ask.
Ian Gutteridge
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Post by Andrew Martin on Nov 2, 2007 9:41:10 GMT
Hello All Is there an official way of returning Radio Programmes to the BBC now Treasure Hunt seems to of finished. Also does anyone know how well the BBC online catalogue reflects the contents of their Radio archive. The Treasure Hunt web address is still monitored by the BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/cult/treasurehunt/
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Post by Marc Koch on Mar 5, 2008 18:53:22 GMT
Hi Everyone, I offered the BBC treasure hunt my collection of Parsley Sidings reel to reel recordings. They said they would let me know when they wanted them and that's the last I heard. Not what I expected, but their loss.
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Post by Andrew Martin on Mar 7, 2008 18:06:16 GMT
When was this? If recently, there may be a delay because there is no permanent Treasure Hunt team any more. Try contacting again, they should at least acknowledge your offer - there may be a reason why they didn't get back to you (even people working for the BBC are only human and make mistakes sometimes...)
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Post by jonny on Mar 7, 2008 23:18:38 GMT
a friend even offered them some great missing totp video stuff they turned their noses up at!
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Post by Marc Koch on Mar 8, 2008 1:55:05 GMT
Hi Andrew, They did acknowledge my offer, it's just that there was no follow up. I would estimate I contacted them about four years ago. In the meantime I have been able to transfer them to digital format myself so they are safe.
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Post by W Olding on Mar 8, 2008 2:13:25 GMT
How much is it, they (the BBC) get from the licence fee? 2 Billion odd... and they can't even man (with one person) the Treasure Hunt site!
Well that's pure apathy and complacency all rolled into one, for me, and says it all...
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Post by Rich Cornock on Mar 8, 2008 8:15:15 GMT
yes i cant understand why the treasure hunt site was abandoned
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Post by Andrew Martin on Mar 8, 2008 12:05:27 GMT
a friend even offered them some great missing totp video stuff they turned their noses up at! Can you send me details (by u2u if you prefer) and I will investigate.
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Post by Andrew Martin on Mar 8, 2008 12:12:25 GMT
How much is it, they (the BBC) get from the licence fee? 2 Billion odd... and they can't even man (with one person) the Treasure Hunt site! Well that's pure apathy and complacency all rolled into one, for me, and says it all... Except it's not the case, someone does monitor the site. If some people's offers have been missed, that's unfortunate - but mainly for the BBC not getting material back! It's not as if the BBC has sought out the material and destroyed it again...! As I said above, there is always scope for human error. That's not to say it won't be followed up eventually... If the BBC really didn't care, why did it do a Treasure Hunt in the first place? It's true it was only a limited campaign, but that would probably be true of any such initiative - see ITV's Raiders of the Lost Archives. The BBC still gets contacted about missing material, and it is (usually!) followed up - otherwise the umpteen recoveries made post-Treasure Hunt would not have been returned... Whatever the BBC's income, it has to do a lot of things with it, and it can't afford to do everything it would like to - and most of the archive's money is necessarily spent on preserving the millions of items which didn't get junked...
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Post by Joe Haynes on Mar 8, 2008 14:43:22 GMT
How much is it, they (the BBC) get from the licence fee? 2 Billion odd... and they can't even man (with one person) the Treasure Hunt site! Well that's pure apathy and complacency all rolled into one, for me, and says it all... Except it's not the case, someone does monitor the site. If some people's offers have been missed, that's unfortunate - but mainly for the BBC not getting material back! It's not as if the BBC has sought out the material and destroyed it again...! As I said above, there is always scope for human error. That's not to say it won't be followed up eventually... If the BBC really didn't care, why did it do a Treasure Hunt in the first place? It's true it was only a limited campaign, but that would probably be true of any such initiative - see ITV's Raiders of the Lost Archives. The BBC still gets contacted about missing material, and it is (usually!) followed up - otherwise the umpteen recoveries made post-Treasure Hunt would not have been returned... Whatever the BBC's income, it has to do a lot of things with it, and it can't afford to do everything it would like to - and most of the archive's money is necessarily spent on preserving the millions of items which didn't get junked... hey andrew. how often does the BBC get contacted by someone wanting to return material? is it often?
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Post by Rich Cornock on Mar 8, 2008 22:14:23 GMT
i can see there point on this in some ways but i would have thought it better to hold a copy of something in the archives in poor quality rather than not at all. after all who knows what future technological developments maybe around the corner to improve the quality
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Post by W Olding on Mar 8, 2008 22:35:29 GMT
How much is it, they (the BBC) get from the licence fee? 2 Billion odd... and they can't even man (with one person) the Treasure Hunt site! Well that's pure apathy and complacency all rolled into one, for me, and says it all... Except it's not the case, someone does monitor the site. If some people's offers have been missed, that's unfortunate - but mainly for the BBC not getting material back! It's not as if the BBC has sought out the material and destroyed it again...! As I said above, there is always scope for human error. That's not to say it won't be followed up eventually... If the BBC really didn't care, why did it do a Treasure Hunt in the first place? It's true it was only a limited campaign, but that would probably be true of any such initiative - see ITV's Raiders of the Lost Archives. The BBC still gets contacted about missing material, and it is (usually!) followed up - otherwise the umpteen recoveries made post-Treasure Hunt would not have been returned... Whatever the BBC's income, it has to do a lot of things with it, and it can't afford to do everything it would like to - and most of the archive's money is necessarily spent on preserving the millions of items which didn't get junked... "If the BBC really didn't care, why did it do a Treasure Hunt in the first place?" Can only think, that the money that might be earned, from potential sales of any DVDs (very few of which, rather ironically, we ever actually get a chance to see) should something particularly special turn up, might have been a good incentive... "Whatever the BBC's income, it has to do a lot of things with it, and it can't afford to do everything it would like to..." And that includes, in real terms, the cost of a single person's meagre wages... Perhaps then, they could stop commissioning some of the cr*p seen on BBC THREE (and is mainly for, IMHO, inebriates) and thus spend the money elsewhere...
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Post by jonny on Mar 8, 2008 23:14:28 GMT
second that ted. some of the stuff on bbc 3 is incredibly dire, & on bbc 4 so obscure, you have to wonder is anyone really watching them!!
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