RTBF showed footage in the 1pm news. Then again in the 7.30pm one. The next day. It bought it.
It didn’t have the rights. So it used what is called “access news”. A broadcaster without the rights buys a short extract from the one that holds them. It runs it in its news bulletins, to inform. And it writes the owner’s name on the screen. “Images RTL”. “Images TF1”. I had taken it for a spelling mistake.
One minute, usually. Sometimes 90 seconds. Viewable for 24 or 48 hours. After that, one is no longer allowed to remember it on air.
The price. From 500 to 1,500 euros per minute started, depending on the competition. Per minute started. One second too many, and you pay for the next. I’m not criticising. I’m comparing.
My paper weekly, I buy it once. I read it at the chip shop on Monday. I reread it on Tuesday. It doesn’t expire. Nobody has printed “photos from another newspaper” on it. The score inside doesn’t change, I have checked several times.
Silly question, but how many minutes does your paper have, Marcel?
It has no minutes. It has pages. That is the difference.
Note that I’m not against progress. I’m against the kind that is rented for forty-eight hours. Conditions may vary, says RTBF. So does the price.
Well. It’s the times.
It’s true, we checked: RTBF Sport.
