[cma-l] Community Radio recording for legal purposes

[Richard Berry]

I should have added before that it's a good idea to have a back-up  
system and a means of flagging up errors in the logging system. So,  
you might want to have a primary recorder hooked up to the studio- 
output (to offer guests tapes etc) and a backup from off-air. Ofcom  
seem to be getting tough on this now and if your system has failed and  
they ask for a recording you can't offer then they may decide to make  
an example of you. So belts and braces everyone!

Rich
(Utopia FM)


Richard Berry
Senior Lecturer in Radio
Programme Leader:
FdA Community Radio and BA Radio
Admissions Tutor
Faculty of Arts, Design and Media
The Media Centre, Sunderland
0191 515 2239
www.sunderland.ac.uk/radio
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On 9 Dec 2008, at 13:48, Javed Sattar wrote:

> Hi Norman
>
> If you have the facility...then use the output from the desk. We  
> currently
> do both via off-air receiver and direct from the desk. We have a  
> station
> master that goes into out Netlog and an off-air goes into PC.
> (use Cyberecord - fantastic little program doesn’t cost much, i.e.  
> around
> £20-30, haven’t checked in a while.)
>
> Netlog records at a higher bit rate and cyberecord as a low quality  
> archive.
> Trust...me when your main archive goes down and it has done,  
> cyberecord came
> in handy. Especially when Ofcom was looking for something
>
> Javed
> Project Director
> Awaz FM
>
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> From: Ian Kennedy <irkennedy at yahoo.co.uk>
>
> As I understand it it should be off a receiver though I suspect there
> are some stations taking a desk output. You should have a record of
> what was actually broadcast rather than an earlier point in the chain.
>
> Ian Kennedy, Shine FM
>
> ---------- Regarding message ----------
>
>> From: Norman Polden <haymere at uwclub.net>
>>
>> Reference the "keep recording for 42 days" for legal purposes.
>>
>> Does the recording of the station output have to be off of a  
>> completely
>> independent radio receiver (as I think I was told by someone when I  
>> was
>> doing RSL's) or can it be off of the audio chain after the desk ?
>>
>> I would appreciate some clarification on this one.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Norman Polden, Station Manager, Flame CCR.
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