On 11/10/2007, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/10/2007, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And what bugs me is when companies Microsoft (and the rest) deal with > > the BBC (e.g. when the BBC included a BBC "channel" in the release of > > IE4) and not the commercial arm (BBC Worldwide). > > > > And somebody paid for the server farm in New York for BBC News > > Online, and I don't think it was the licence fee, since that could > > not be justified, could it? > > no, iirc that investment came from World Serivice (funded by Grant In > Aid from the Foriegn Office), since international news was under the > perview of World Service rather than BBC Worldwide. > > The Foreign Office refused to continue this arrangement cos it > prefered World Service to focus on BBC Arabic TV / Farsi - hence the > adverts on BBC.com debate.
And THNY closed as a server farm last month. It is now only a point of presence for peering with the BBC. All content is either served from London or from CDN partners. -- Gareth Davis | Production Systems Specialist World Service Future Media Operations - Part of BBC Global News Division * 707NE Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B 4PH - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
