David wrote:It was my understanding that the BBC only had rights from the music companies to put on so many hours on the listen again, and by putting an extra half hour might have caused problems. So last time the only thing they were positive they could play was the show themes written by Music4.
However I suppose since then, everything on Radio 1 has gone Listen Again so there are a lot more hours, and this CM Extra has been planned in advance so maybe they have permission (last time it was setup last minute during the show).
Aled...?
And would we not rather hear a 30 minute long link from the team than breaking it up by playing music?
I'm not an expert in this field and there are two whole departments in the BBC that deal with this very issue - Online and Music Dept and I'm not in either so apologese if I get one of the details wrong. But I believe the problem is that Record Companies probably aren't keen on songs that haven't been released yet being online. So, I'd imagine, the deal struck with the BBC for allowing their music to be in any digital form online is that it is completely faithful to what went out on air and it is in fact the show you can listen back to not individual songs. That would therefore be different if we did an extra session for online only as their songs would be played for online content only and therefore against the deal struck with the Record Companies.
I used the term 'playlisted' songs to differentitate between beds and tracks meaning commercial tracks released by a record company and a bed. I can't remember where we stand on beds because we only pay royalties on tracks played on air. Music 4 was different as we could call them and ask permission.
See the headache? That's why speech is prefered.