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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote:

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:42:53 -0400, (Jim Burns)
wrote:

Unfortunately very Little remains as the BBC scrubbed most of the tapes
to re use for sports coverage * *

...This is why beancounters still alive who were employed by the BBC
in those years should be taken out and burned at the stake.

Among the various other details he got wrong...

Live programming like this was almost never recorded in the first place,
there wasn't enough equipment to do it or budget to cover it.

And even if it had been recorded, the tape would not have been re-used
for sport. They had their own series of tape numbers.

Anthony - Former BBC-VT engineer