TuneIn BBC Radio Shows “song not encoded correctly”

Geoblocking which many broadcasters engage in is really irritating. 

Enjoy. 

You can thank the lawyers, and broadcasting rights for that. 

Edit: and the artists, who want to get paid for their efforts. Seems odd, but makes sense. 

The BBC broadcasts (radio output) almost exclusively content for which it holds the copyright.  The only live stream content they modify outside the UK are some sport broadcasts, and Radio 3 (classical) where NON-UK listeners can't get the higher bit-rate stream.  Why they geoblock BBC Sounds is a bit of a mystery. 

It holds the copyright for where? Having dealt extensively with Disney on music rights, which are different for each region of the world, it makes a huge difference. And there’s a substantial cost difference for copyright access for the world, versus just one region. Not to mention the challenge that there could be on the BBC’s side,  in figuring out which content has world rights versus which content has UK rights.

Last time I tried, I was unable to get F1 on the BBC here in the states, as they didn’t bother with those rights, and did not allow non-license paying users (read non-UK) access to that. I seem to recall that there have been other instances posted on these boards regarding access to particular sports, from the Olympics to football or rugby matches. 

It’s entirely unfortunate that there are such requirements...in the current world, everything streamed should be available to anyone on the internet, but unfortunately, that’s not the case. I wish it was. 

I agree that rights must be a nightmare especially for music and even more so for sports (where billions can be involved).  Thank goodness radio seems less afflicted than television.