Welcome to the 5 live blog
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|18:10 UK time, Thursday, 27 August 2009
We're about to relaunch the 5 live website and among the many developments we've been planning is the creation of this blog.
Why am I doing it? Well, I want to tell you more about what's going on at Radio 5 live and 5 live sports extra - everything from current issues and changes we're planning to the story of our move to our new home in Salford which is scheduled for 2011. The next couple of years should be very exciting for this station and I and my colleagues want to use this blog to make sure you've got the inside track about what's happening. We'll try to provide behind-the-scenes pictures and background information as we do something no other national radio station in the UK has done before: moving 200 miles whilst maintaining and developing a 24-hour radio station.
And of course it's not just an important development for 5 live but for the BBC as a whole. BBC North includes the move of BBC Sport, BBC Children, BBC Learning and parts of Future Media and Technology as well as providing a new home for the 800 or so BBC staff who currently work at Oxford Road in Manchester. It's a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the BBC to redefine itself and I want this blog to help capture the full story of how it feels along the way.
To work properly this needs to be a two-way process - something which the 5 livewire - which this in part replaces - could never really achieve. We want to hear your thoughts, comments and questions and we'll try to respond to them as best we can. We'll always try to be open and direct as well as informal and accessible - in fact I hope just like 5 live sounds on air. There are many things to talk about - from the move to digital to our plans for covering the next General Election or London 2012. So please come back next week as we begin the next stage of our journey. See you on our new site.
Adrian Van Klaveren is Controller of 5 live and 5 live sports extra.
- 5 live Interactive Editor Brett Spencer wrote a blog post about the planned changes to the web site for the BBC Internet blog.
- The latest edition of 5 livewire.
- Adrian Van Klaveren's profile on the BBC Press Office web site.
- The pictures are from 5 live's flickr stream.
Comment number 1.
At 18:48 1st Sep 2009, Professor Techno wrote:Hello
This blog looks intresting only issue i have is are you really going to be open or are you going to avoid the tough question like other BBC bloggers do
I have 2 questions
Why did let Mark Saggers go,is it because you are trying to attract the youngsters by replacing Saggers with Murray
Why does Alan Green always get the best games,why is the BBC obsessed with Greeny when the likes of John Murray are equally good
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Comment number 2.
At 09:43 2nd Sep 2009, Steve Bowbrick wrote:@Professor Techno The blog will tackle the kind of issues you raise in your comment and you'll have the opportunity to question the managers and editors who post but I'll also be pretty strict about keeping comments on-topic. What else would you like to hear about on the blog?
Steve Bowbrick, editor, Radio 4 blog
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Comment number 3.
At 10:44 5th Sep 2009, The Great Gildersleeve wrote:Whilst keeping comments on topic how can listeners raise questions and views if raising them means they are off topic? To discuss something it has to be raised in the first place to get a response. So not having a messageboiard to discuss station matters, what you mean is you pick the topic and we respond. And I am not saying this to be deliberately awkward.
After all you cannot talk about the station on the boards already designated for discussing the news.
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Comment number 4.
At 17:39 25th Sep 2009, Alpha Hooligan - Gringatcho Demento wrote:Didn't you try this sort of thing when you hamstrung the old "Today" board?
All this will achieve is stifling debate and steering it into the direction that you wish go, which is, I suspect the reason for going down this route.
AH
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Comment number 5.
At 17:47 25th Sep 2009, i.moore wrote:What is going to happen to our past discussion and posts on the 5 live and Today messageboards, will they be deleted, can we download them before you delete them?
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Comment number 6.
At 18:30 25th Sep 2009, Baldinio wrote:Will any of the listeners comments on this blog be 'fed back' into the programmes? Or will the blog be led by the bloggers themselves and not audience led?
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Comment number 7.
At 18:53 25th Sep 2009, spark wrote:It's shiny and new but it's not the same.
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Comment number 8.
At 19:23 25th Sep 2009, JamesStGeorge wrote:'I want to tell you'. Yes sums up blogs vanity declaration from on high. Already common over the BBC this system. Deliberately less useful or functional to user debate than proper messageboards, as is they intent. Nothing you can do with this format that could not be on the messageboards, which BBC staff dares not take part in. You had your chances to interact with users, and never bothered.
'I and my colleagues' For civilised people that would be 'my colleagues and I'. Called politeness.
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Comment number 9.
At 20:04 25th Sep 2009, skinningroveparker wrote:Surely this is BBC censorship.
BBC decides which topics may be discussed AND which public responses may be published.
Just like the BBC phone ins, Any Questions and the like.
The old message boards were far more informative and an excellent barometer of public opinion. Unfortunately public opinion is at odds with BBC and government agenda so the boards had to go.
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Comment number 10.
At 09:14 26th Sep 2009, Bath Tub Economics wrote:Well I suppose the election is coming up and the messageboards might have nasty anti-government posters raising awkward questions, like why we're bankrupt with unemployment predicted to rise to a possible 4 million. Trouble is Labour will still lose, and massively, the only thing you are harming is the BBC's reputation for impartiality.
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Comment number 11.
At 09:16 26th Sep 2009, Bath Tub Economics wrote:"Surely this is BBC censorship"
Well if you don't like it you can stop paying the licence fee can't you? Oh no you can't can you, its a poll tax.
As for pre-moderation its the clearest example of how the BBC's socialist inspired control-freakery has gone into overdrive pre-election.
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Comment number 12.
At 10:26 26th Sep 2009, Brandon and his Christmas log wrote:I prefer this to the message boards.You've all done very well BBC.
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Comment number 13.
At 10:26 26th Sep 2009, RobbieFiveFingers wrote:It's all part of a government conspiracy to stifle the dissenters! I blame Lord Ctoo!
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Comment number 14.
At 11:13 26th Sep 2009, the chips are down, the wheel is rolling wrote:I think the blue colour is an excellent choice. a nice balance in contrast and lightness at the same time easily readable. Well done!
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Comment number 15.
At 11:17 26th Sep 2009, Friston wrote:Simon Mayo won't be going to Salford, are there any others?
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Comment number 16.
At 11:41 26th Sep 2009, corestability wrote:I hope the topics chosen are not as mundane as the topics some presenters debate, like 'Do you think politicians are greedy?', etc.
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Comment number 17.
At 14:25 26th Sep 2009, Span Ows wrote:Hmmm...bit like the 606 changes...instead of thousands of posters for every club (albiet some with very few!) the debate is what you decide it should be...i.e. no debate at all. Would anyone be brave enough to mention how the participation dropped after those changes? I would bet AT LEAST 80%. The same will happen now with the News boards, participation will fall like a stone because there is no "real" participation. A bad move...
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Comment number 18.
At 17:18 28th Sep 2009, rg wrote:12. Brandon wrote: "...I prefer this to the message boards..."
It is certainly quieter here.
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Comment number 19.
At 17:23 28th Sep 2009, MarinSolitaire wrote:So this is supposed to me 'interactive' is it?
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Comment number 20.
At 20:02 28th Sep 2009, zelda wrote:Yes, it's interactive, if you are dead.
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Comment number 21.
At 12:49 30th Sep 2009, tigerdarwin wrote:'''The old message boards were far more informative and an excellent barometer of public opinion. Unfortunately public opinion is at odds with BBC and government agenda so the boards had to go.''
I agree though I was one of the few libreral left on the MB.
This board is not interactive nor - it has the feel of Stasi control
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