UPDATE 17 Jan 2007: BBC News has now changed it’s AV offering and as such the source material for these feeds is no longer being updated. However these feeds have been deprecated for sometime, and you should check out the official BBC News AV RSS Feeds (click on the link, see the list of feeds on the right-hand-side column).
** UPDATE: I have re-instated the Broadband streams now that the BBC has fixed the problem of them “leaking” internationally. The BBC does not stream broadband media outside of the UK due to the cost of serving, and this is something which I respect. **
Following on from suggestions from my esteemed colleagues Ben W and Joel C (names obfuscated to protect the innocent) I’m now outputing a four RSS feeds per BBC News section – one feed per format/bandwidth combination available.
Previously I had four <link> nodes in each <item> node, to reflect the four media options per news story. Multiple <link> tags were causing havoc in many news-readers.
So, here are the new links you need (there’s an HTML flavour at the bottom too):
Broadband, Windows Media: (UK IP’s only)
Broadband, Real Media: (UK IP’s only)
Narrowband, Windows Media:
Narrowband, Real Media:
HTML Version – all media/bandwidth combos
Use this if you want to play BBC News clips in your preferred player (rather than in the embedded console)
- BBC News AV: Headlines
- BBC News AV: Business
- BBC News AV: Entertainment
- BBC News AV: Health
- BBC News AV: Sci-Tech
- BBC News AV: UK
- BBC News AV: World
I’ve also ensured I’m escaping safely all the characters I need to keep the XML valid.
Please do let me know if you are using these feeds, and any improvements you would like to see.