Off-Air Recording Back-Up Service
Have you ever missed recording a television programme you wanted to use in teaching? You can use this BUFVC service to obtain a copy from its extensive recordings library.
The BUFVC records and retains more than 65,000 hours of UK broadcast television and radio each year. Copies of these programmes can be ordered online and supplied to members with an Educational Recording Agency (ERA) licence.
Service
We offer an off-air television recording back-up service on behalf for educational institutions that hold an ERA licence. BUFVC membership allows a member institution to request videocassettes or burned CD/DVD copies of missed programmes broadcast since June 1998. The subscription taken up by an institution determines the level of service that can be requested. The BUFVC is the only third party organisation in mainland UK holding a letter of agreement with the ERA permitting the post-transmission supply of copies of television programmes under Section 35 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Coverage
Our Off-Air Recording Back-Up Service currently records BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, ITV1, Channel 4, Five, BBC Radio 4 (since September 2008) and BBC Radio 7 (since September 2009).
Online Ordering
Users from registered members may order programmes via our extensive Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT). Simply locate and select the desired programme in TRILT to generate a programme request. Your BUFVC member representative will then authorize for processing. TRILT carries information on nearly all broadcasts in the UK that took place since September 2001 and selective data back to 1995.
Open University Programmes
The BUFVC Off-Air Recording Back-Up Service does not cover Open University programmes, which can be obtained direct from the OU and for which a separate licence is required.
Contact us
For more information on BUFVC’s Off-Air Recording Back-Up Service, contact us by email, telephone +44 (0)20 7393 1500 or fax +44 (0)20 7393 1555.
