BBC Earth

[michael norman]

On 06/14/2017 06:13 PM, Mark Carroll wrote:
> On 14 Jun 2017, CJB wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to download files from BBC Earth? Seems like licence
>> fee payers are paying for a channel that they cannot access -
>> certainly its not on Freeview. CJB
> 
> Isn't it largely means by which BBC Worldwide show stuff that we
> domestically already got to see on other channels, akin to BBC America
> or whatever? I would have thought that get_iplayer probably caught much
> of that stuff from elsewhere if you had it previously set for those
> shows back when they were shown here. I think they've done films, etc.,
> too, but those were paid for by cinemagoers as far as I know.
> 
> -- Mark
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Seems to me that this whole issue has nothing to do with GIP which 
exists to access programmes frm BBC iPlayer, funded by our licence fee. 
BBC World I suspect is a part of the BBC as a business.  Whether or not 
any of our license fee goes towards that I don't know.  The obvious 
answer is to ask the BBC or Offcom or whoever.

My quick research enabled me to access it via YouTube, I can't recall 
BBC World as ever having been available via Iplayer however you might 
choose to access that.  Freeview of itself merely provides access to BBC 
digital channels paid for from the license fee.

IMO none of this has anything to do with GIP

You want to debate the BBC's funding, do it somewhere else.

M