TV and radio recording
Digital Media Services provides a free television and radio recording service for the University.
Requests for the recording of programs must be made via our online form
For "last minute" requests (within 24 hours of the broadcast time) please enter details via the online form and then telephone 8344 4527.
We can legally record from the free-to-air digital television channels (ABC1, ABC2, SBS, Seven, Nine and Ten and their HD broadcasts), most Foxtel channels and AM and FM radio.
Recordings can be requested for faculties, departments, libraries or the web including Readings Online via Digitool. Academic staff can link to these online resources from the LMS.
Free-to-air television
We record the following programs each week: As it Happened, Australia Pacific Focus, Australian Story, Catalyst, Compass, Dateline, Enough Rope, Foreign Correspondent, Four Corners, Insight, Living Black, Media Watch, Message Stick, Mythbusters and National Press Club Address.
We also record the daily news: ABC1, SBS, Seven, Nine, Ten and French News (SBS).
Unless we receive a request to keep these programs, they are wiped 14 days after broadcast, news items after one week. All other programs are recorded by specific request.
Screenrights provides a service - EnhanceTV - that provides study guides and television guides about educational programs broadcast on television. Broadcasts can also be purchased from EnhanceTV.
Informit TVNews - TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content and/or DVD delivery. This is an easy and copyright compliant way to access TV news broadcasts for teaching purposes under the Part VA or ScreenRights Licence
Foxtel
We can record programming from the following Foxtel channels: A1, Animal Planet, The Biography Channel, Crime Investigation Network, Discovery Channel, Home and Health, Discovery Science, Travel and Living, The History Channel, National Geographic channel, SKY News, BBC World, Bloomberg Television, The Weather Channel, How To Channel, Ovation, Lifestyle Food channel, Showtime, Showtime Greats, Movie ONE, Movie Extra, Movie Greats, World Movies and TCM.
Radio
All radio recordings are done by specific request.
Internet
Australian podcasts and webcasts can be copied for educational purposes if they were originally 'born' as free broadcasts”. See here for more information.
Links to previously recorded online materials are available from Media Collections' Web-Media resources page.
Digital Media Services can digitise and make available online complete copies or excerpts of any off-air material recorded after 1991. Media Collections in the ERC Library has a large collection of off-air recorded materials that can be used in this way.
Playback of off-air recorded DVDs
All programmes recorded on to DVD are automatically broken up into five minute segements. This allows for qickly stepping through the DVD by using the next button on the DVD remote. In most lecture theatres the lectern key pad enables you to play, stop, pause, fast forward (search + option) and select chapter (advance to the next segment or chapter which on our television recordings is a jump of 5 minutes).
Further information
Contact the Learning Environments Service Desk:
| Service coverage hours: | Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm |
| Tel: | 834 46600 |
For general enquiries, please complete the Digital Media Services general request/enquiry form