Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 06:51:08AM +, S Byers wrote: > Re: top and tail adverts. > > Surely advertising is against the BBC Charter - in tne UK anyway. They've always been able to promote their own content. > But when we were in Malta recently the BBC News website was heavily > advertising

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread Roger Wilkins
Completely agree Mark. The kid intoning "BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts" at the start of last week's In Our Time, and then the blast of electric guitar and drums assaulting one's ears at the end (music under some internal advert for another podcast purporting to distinguish "what's fact

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread Jim web
In article <1891565781.18066301.1553583068...@mail.yahoo.com>, S Byers wrote: > Re: top and tail adverts. > Surely advertising is against the BBC Charter - in tne UK anyway. As Mark has said, it tends to 'promote' "BBC Sounds" and/or give some "extended stuff" from the main programme. Usually

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread Mark Carroll
For me the annoying top-and-tail stuff that's appeared, sometime since BBC Sounds, has been that the only version of a radio show that get_iplayer can see is now one where at the start and end there are extra things telling us how wonderful BBC Sounds is or has some earnest fellow thinking that we

Re: WS podcast sideffect, was Re: Grenfell Tower podcasts

2019-03-26 Thread S Byers
Re: top and tail adverts. Surely advertising is against the BBC Charter - in tne UK anyway. But when we were in Malta recently the BBC News website was heavily advertising Vodaphone and even after reporting these intrusions to Google they persisted and took up much of the screen display. And