[peel] Milestones

[Stuart Brooks]

That last stat should have read – 6 years have more than 50% of shows that are complete! 

I think the late 90s dip may have been a combination of the tailing off of using cassettes as a recording medium (DATs CDr etc never really achieving the ubiquity or ease of recording), the beginning of listen again functionality reducing the need to keep shows, and was the period just before archiving shows on PVRs became easy.

Thanks for the shows Colin and Isector!

Stuart

From: colin bray 
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 9:41 PM
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: RE: [peel] Milestones

  

Some amazing stats there Stuart. Thanks for taking the effort to collate them.

Don't know what was going on in 1998 but I only have 10 as-yet-unshared tapes from that year myself.

Colin.


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To: peel@yahoogroups.com
From: stuartb@...
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:43:36 +0100
Subject: [peel] Milestones

  
According to my List Of Shows page on the wiki we’ve passed a few important milestones in the availability of Radio 1 shows in recent weeks:

2/5ths of all Peel shows have at least some content recorded and available.
1 out of 5 shows have been preserved in their entirety.
Just over 1/3 of all Radio 1 output has been made available online.

There were just 6 minutes less than 666,666 minutes of Peel Radio One programming created.

Other interesting facts: 1998 is one of the worst years for show availability, you need to go back to 1977 for a leaner year.
6 years have more than 50% show availability, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Stuart