The things we can do with content
Create & promote it
Make it accessible
Enhance it
Store & manage it
Deliver it
Help People Find it
Translate it
Show me the big picture
The BBC Story
Back in the ‘60s when BBC Television first moved to its Television Centre headquarters, Harold MacMillan was still the UK’s Prime Minister, a pint of beer cost about 10p and BBC One was the only channel in the building. Over 40 years on and the public still knows (or cares) very little about how a TV channel is put together. They just want to watch the programmes they love which, of course, their licence fees have paid for.
But for the BBC it was and remains a critical issue, particularly with the combined demands of additional channels, multi–platform functionality and consistent political pressure to reduce costs.
Enter Red Bee Media with an ambitious plan: to lead the industry from the chaotic, oxide–coloured world of videotape to the glorious, cost–efficient uplands of end–to–end and file–based solutions. At the heart of this plan is our state-of-the-art new building, the Broadcast Centre and its Media Object Management System, which magically transforms our ability to ingest and manipulate content (what they used to call programmes).
We can schedule it, subtitle it, sign it, promote it, comply it, broadcast it, squirt it to a mobile, stuff it down a broadband pipe - you name it, we can do it.
The benefits to the BBC have been instant. Year-on-year cost savings have allowed more money to be put back into programmes; our dedicated interactive playout area allowed over nine million viewers to enjoy the Olympic interactive coverage in 2004; and with the security of our electronic transfer system and a purpose built remote site, the BBC now has one of the most instant and robust disaster recovery systems in the world.
