LOOK&LISTEN

LEARNat the KAVA Radio

and Television Archive

Photo: Kai Vase

Technical specifications of the recordings:

Image (TV) * format: MPEG2 SD* compression format: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC* resolution, original (SD 720x480i/576i) VBR 250-1500 kbps

Audio (radio and TV)* format: MPEG layer 2 (CBR)* compression format: HE-AAC v1* bit rate: 64 kbps (stereo)* sampling frequency: 48 kHz

Viewing stations at KAVA.

What is being recorded?*

* Nelonen* JIM* Nelonen Pro 2* The Voice* SuomiTV

* YLE TV1* YLE TV2* YLE Teema* FST5* MTV3* SubTV

Radio stations recorded in their entirety: * YLE Radio Suomi* YLE Radio 1* YLEX* YLE Radio Vega* YLE Radio Extrem* YLE Saamen radio

* Radio Nova* Radio Rock* Radio Aalto* Radio Dei* Radio Suomi POP

Weekly samples are recorded from other channels and stations *) As of 2011

* Groove FM* Rondo FM * NRJ* The Voice* Radio Sputnik

Metadata sources: Venetsia database, Finnpanel, EPG, RTVA cataloging

Questions? Please get in touch:tel: (09) 615 400 (KAVA switch board)

email: rtva@kava.fi

Jyväskylä, Oulu and Eastern Finland Uni-versity Libraries

University of Tampere, School of Commu-nication, Media and Theatre University of Turku and Åbo Akademi: Library Helsinki: The National Audiovisual Archive (KAVA), the National Library of Finland, the Library of Parliament

RTVA viewing stations at

Oulu

Joensuu

Jyväskylä

Tampere

Turku Helsinki

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Kuopio

TV channels recorded in their entirety (viewing share 88.1 %):

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KAVA & RTVA KAVA’s partners Viewing stationsThe operations of the Radio and Television Ar-chive (RTVA), which began in 2008, are grounded in new legislation on the preservation of cultural materials. RTVA was founded as part of KAVA, the National Audiovisual Archive (the former Finnish Film Archive).

RTVA serves researchers and students by record-ing archived material in easy-to-review formats. In other words, television and radio programs are digitally captured directly from the program stream.

Digita Oy is responsible for the capture and W3 Group Oy for the program information manage-ment system. Technical expertise in recording, long-term storage of recorded files, and meta-data management is provided by CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.

The law specifies, in addition to digital capture, the program types to be archived in the RTVA as original-quality physical specimens or files.

Room for researchers at KAVAs premises.

How to find us on the internet: www.kava.fi/radio-ja-tv-arkisto

Accessing RTVAs database. RTVA is a part of KAVA, the National Audio-visual Archive. Visit us at Sörnäisten rantatie 25 A (5th floor), 00500 Helsinki, Finland.

The Radio and Television Archive (RTVA) records the program stream of the primary radio and television channels in its entirety. Samples are also recorded from circa 100 other channels. The recording is executed in accordance with the annual recording plan prepared by KAVA and approved by the Ministry of Education and Culture. Recording began in 2009.

Clients can easily access the recorded program stream at RTVA viewing stations. Background information is offered in the form of program metadata collected from a variety of sources. All of the data is protected by copyright, and therefore may not be copied or re-recorded.