RTÉ (Ireland’s National Broadcaster) Wants to Digitally Archive 20,000 Tapes of its Radio Programmes Between 1988 and 2008
From TheJournal.ie:
RTÉ is seeking to award a contract to digitise and archive over 20,000 audio tapes created over a 20-year span.
It said that these recordings were created between 1988 and 2008, and contain a mixture of studio and field recordings that were originally produced for radio programming.
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The tapes RTÉ has on file, however, do vary in quality and duration.
They want the successful contractor to collect the tapes that will be bar-coded and boxed in RTÉ in Donnybrook.
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See Also: Approx. 9,000 Hours Of RTÉ News Content Digitised By RTÉ Archives (2017)
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