Next year at 5 live Interactive
It's been a busy year for the 5 live interactive team. We built a brand-new website, developed 5 live now and launched Danny Baker on the red button. There were a range of visual treats on offer from the Hull Octoberfest and from Edinburgh during the Mayo visualisation trial. We were delighted to win the Sony Gold multiplatform award for our work at Wimbledon.
But that was 2009 and we're working hard on a range of new offerings for next year. As I write our video producer Guy Oldfield is busy editing something special for January 2nd. On the red button on the first Saturday of the year you will be able to see Danny Baker in conversation with Elton John. If you miss it, you can catch it on demand throughout that week.
We've spent the last couple of months listening to your feedback about our new website and will be making a raft of changes during the 2nd phase of development in 2010. We'll be working hard to make audio even more available and even easier to navigate from across the schedule. In addition we will be improving the 5 Live football player and our services on mobile.
5 Live Now has been extremely well-received and hundreds of listeners have contributed to the conversation during the phone-in. Early in the New Year we will roll out the service on Victoria Derbyshire's programme.
We've some exciting plans around Richard Bacon's new show and will be concentrating our efforts on some of the year's big events.
The General Election will be our main focus early in 2010 with the World Cup perhaps the year's biggest draw. Our online traffic tripled during the event in 2006, and you never know maybe this time England will get a bit further.
We're keen to know what you want from 5 Live online, on interactive TV and on your mobile phone so please leave a comment below and we will try and make it happen.
And a Merry Christmas from everyone at 5 Live Interactive!
Brett Spencer is Interactive Editor for BBC Radio 5 live
- Picture by Doug Wheller. Used under licence.
Comment number 1.
At 00:21 24th Dec 2009, ryanw wrote:"We're keen to know what you want from 5 Live online, on interactive TV and on your mobile phone so please leave a comment below and we will try and make it happen."
Sorry Brett, we were asked what we would like to see on the blog a month or so ago, contributed many comments and questions and we were ignored.
See https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/5live/2009/11/an-open-post-what-do-you-want.shtml
Before you ask for any more contributions at least have the courtesy to ensure that the 5Live team respond to our legtimate questions and concerns about the blogs, twitter et. al.
Your post reads like another token gesture.
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Comment number 2.
At 16:42 26th Dec 2009, zelda wrote:Well said ryanw - yet more evidence that the BBC have lost the plot. They don't both to answer any of the questions we have already asked them then they ask us for more questions so that they can ignore them too. What is wrong with you lot at the BBC?
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At 17:36 6th Jan 2010, Jackstumps wrote:Exciting ideas around Richard Bacon's new show? Will these in any way run in parallel with the stupid going's on in Colin Murray's desparate offerings. Laboured ... unfunny ... just to name two of many.
The most exciting thing I can think of for Richard Bacon is abandon the plan to let him anchor the afternoon show.
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Comment number 4.
At 18:56 26th Jan 2010, zelda wrote:I see Victoria's blog attempt has ended - what a surprise!
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