Recording of Transmission
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The broadcasting term ROT stands for Recording of Transmission. Traditionally ROT’s are usually made on videotapes as Long play can record up to 8 hours at a time. These days recordings are often made on hard disk by software, or dedicated hardware.
[edit] UK Law
By UK law every radio station must record everything it broadcasts and retain the recordings for 42 days (which happens to be very close to 1000 hours) should a complaint be made about something the station may have broadcast.
