Britain’s ITN Source Buys 70 Years Of Asia News International Footage
News agency Asia News International (ANI) has signed a deal with UK broadcast footage archive ITN Source to license 70 years of its footage across all platforms. ITN Source, which has over one million hours of content, has already digitised more than 5,000 ANI clips covering news, sports and India’s freedom movement. ANI claims to have the most complete broadcast library in South Asia, including the Asian Films Library which stretches back to the late 1930s, and it continues to produce a good deal of broadcast content from its 100 bureaus in India and South Asia. ITN Source sells access to its content for commercial or broadcast news use for upwards of £299 for a year. Release.
Nov 28, 2008 12:20 PM ET
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Dec 3, 2008 8:25 AM
gr8 deal :)
Dec 7, 2008 10:28 AM
Great deal there mate! It will enable archive Asian news be accessed to UK consumers.This will help the UK public know better of Asian cultures and not make false allegations.
Dec 14, 2008 2:45 AM
truely worth buying, its like purchase history, those a important and historic information content which can be put to go use, now that everyone has access to it, we all can understand Asian Cultures more and getting better insight of those misleading allegations