What is the source of files downloaded by GiP?

Steve Anderson steve at twindx.co.uk
Mon Jan 4 07:46:08 PST 2016


On 4 January 2016 at 14:42, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:

> My understanding is that they don't normally capture "off air", but from
> the broadcast stream so it's the same as off air but without drop-outs
> caused by birds nesting on the aerial etc. And only some stuff is
> captured that way.

My friends in the Beeb have mentioned the "internal iPlayer" to me in
the past - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Redux

This is generally the source of clips that are used on HIGNFY, Mock
the Week, etc. and is "as live".

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