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Regional Licensing and Availability
Zina Neophytou
Travel Distribution Director
BBC Worldwide Global Channels
23rd May 2007
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Topics for Discussion
• Worldwide Rights
• Challenges
• Future
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Global Availability 24/7
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Global Rights
• Cleared rights through news agencies (APTN/Reuters)
• Live Channel - TV Distribution, Internet, PC, Trapped Audiences, Channel Blocks
• Programmes Sales – Cleared rights for wholly commissioned BBC World programmes only
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Challenges
• Editing of tape based news bulletins – no control by BBC World
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Guidelines for Editing of “Airline Sensitive Material”
• Material displaying pictures of civilian air crashes.
• Material on airport security when directly connected to a recent civilian air crash.
• Material on terrorist attacks on airports.
• Material depicting specific events of a current or recent hijack which could cause distress to a trapped audience.
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Guidelines for Editing of “Airline Sensitive Material”- continued
• Material displaying pictures of military air crashes when it involves mid air public demonstrations which turn into disasters.
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Not Airline Sensitive Material
• News items which concentrate on airport security in general. For example, this type of footage may appear in the news sometime after a particular hijack attempt or civilian air crash.
• Material displaying military air crashes which is as a result of ongoing or recent military conflicts. An example of such footage would be reports on conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan etc.
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Not Airline Sensitive Material- continued
• Footage regarding politics, religion or race that may be deemed to affect the good relationship between the Airline and other countries.
• Audio mentions of aeroplane disasters or terrorist attacks.
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Challenges Continued
• Time Sensitivities tape based news - 24 hour broadcast rights
• News Ticker on screen - not applicable when tape based
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Example of News Ticker
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Challenges Continued
• Clearing Sports rights - very costly
• Piracy - exists where channel is not encrypted
• Language Availability
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• Live TV
• Satellite
• Wireless Distribution
Future
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Live TV Inflight – Satellite Distribution
• 32 channels (English & Arabic).
• Offered live inflight via Rockwell Collins’ Tailwind 560 satellite TV system in conjunction with Showtime Arabia who service flights within and between Europe, Middle East & North Africa.
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Live TV Inflight – Satellite Distributioncontinued
• Launch Customer in March 2006:
• 14 Aircraft to date offering 15 channels
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Live TV Inflight - Wireless Distribution
• Phantom Media will be introducing an inflight news solution in alliance with Real Networks to deliver live video and radio news bulletins wirelessly to bluebox seats.
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Live TV Inflight - Wireless Distributioncontinued
• BBC World’s 22-minute bulletins will be refreshed hourly.
• World Service Radios multi-language news summaries will be selected by the airline according to its passenger demographic.
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Live Text News
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CONCLUSION
Convergence from tape based recorded news to live tv/text/radio news inflight