42244 1 3 econsultancy_xml <p>A trial, which will involve 20,000 users, will reportedly start next month, and the service is expected to be available nationally in a year's time. </p> <p>The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk">BBC's</a> director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield will announce the details of the plan in a speech later this week, according to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/16/nbbc16.xml">The Telegraph</a>. </p> <p>The archive is expected to be free to licence payers, but there are suggestions that the programming will be accompanied by advertising, which would almost certainly get a few people going. </p> <p>Charging overseas viewers to access the archive may well be another way for the corporation to raise revenues. </p> <p>It plans to make everything from its archive available online, no matter how obscure, though it first has to clear the copyright on the material and have the plan approved by the BBC Trust. </p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph>A trial, which will involve 20,000 users, will reportedly start next month, and the service is expected to be available nationally in a year's time. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>The <Link URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk" Window="New">BBC's</Link> director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield will announce the details of the plan in a speech later this week, according to <Link URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/16/nbbc16.xml" Window="New">The Telegraph</Link>. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>The archive is expected to be free to licence payers, but there are suggestions that the programming will be accompanied by advertising, which would almost certainly get a few people going. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>Charging overseas viewers to access the archive may well be another way for the corporation to raise revenues. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>It plans to make everything from its archive available online, no matter how obscure, though it first has to clear the copyright on the material and have the plan approved by the BBC Trust. </Paragraph> </FormattedContent> 2007-04-16T13:18:00+01:00 1 1 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>The BBC is planning to make its entire archive available to watch, listen to and download online, in a scheme expected to be announced by the corporation later this week.</strong> </p> <p>The proposals will give licence fee payers access to over 1m hours of archive footage. </p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>The BBC is planning to make its entire archive available to watch, listen to and download online, in a scheme expected to be announced by the corporation later this week.</Emphasis> </Paragraph> <Paragraph>The proposals will give licence fee payers access to over 1m hours of archive footage. </Paragraph> </FormattedContent> false 1051 <p>Read Econsultancy's <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/cms-survey-report">CMS Survey Report</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/content-management-systems-cms-buyer-s-guide-2007">CMS Buyer's Guide</a></strong> to learn more about this topic.</p> <p>Read Econsultancy's <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/cms-survey-report">CMS Survey Report</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/content-management-systems-cms-buyer-s-guide-2007">CMS Buyer's Guide</a></strong> to learn more about this topic.</p> 363081 BBC to put its entire archive online false 2007-04-16T13:54:00+01:00 bbc-to-put-its-entire-archive-online 2009-04-29T21:49:35+01:00 2009-10-13T08:59:08+01:00 238