> that the public in those countries already paid for
But they presumably didn't pay for streaming rights and for contracts with streaming residuals - isn't that the point? Isn't that the whole problem? Otherwise... they'd be streaming them.
That's what I've been trying to say. Most radio programs made by European national broadcasters are fully financed by themselves. Programs containing music is a separate story, of course.
Nevertheless, I've haven't seen a European broadcaster that has a reasonable ~20 year archive of their own news/political analysis/etc shows online. (Perhaps one exists, though?)
They point is that they have had 20+ years to figure this out, and they typically haven't. My understanding is that this kind of content is available for a year and then removed.
> Most radio programs made by European national broadcasters are fully financed by themselves ... Nevertheless ...
Fully financing something doesn't say anything about the contract you agreed and the terms of residuals for your talent and other resources you used. If you didn't agree a residual for 'streaming', which you were unlikely to do until maybe 2007 or so, then 'fully financing' it would not help you.
So that time machine explains how I can't listen to e.g. news or political analysis broadcasts from say 2016 from a public broadcaster in a typical European country, in 2021?
But they presumably didn't pay for streaming rights and for contracts with streaming residuals - isn't that the point? Isn't that the whole problem? Otherwise... they'd be streaming them.