5 live news and sport on your mobile
2010 is going to be a big year for radio. DAB continues to grow, there is a new industry Radio Player to look forward to, and of course the small matter of the World Cup.
But one thing is for certain for radio, the future is going to be more mobile. Our intention is to make sure you can enjoy 5 live on as many devices as possible while on the move.
While FM radio has been available on mobile for some time, 5 live has been trickier, given that our analogue transmission remains on 909/693 MW.
Very soon, you'll be able to listen live on a range of phones by accessing the 5 live stream via the BBC mobile website.
In addition Erik Huggers, BBC Director of Future Media & Technology, announced today that the BBC will be developing official BBC Sport and BBC News apps for the iPhone and then for the BlackBerry and Android devices later in this year.
The new BBC Sport iPhone application will offer you all the sports programmes you currently listen to on 5 Live. For the first time all of 5 live's commentary and analysis will available on mobile. You'll be able to access all BBC Sport content: text, audio and video, in one place while on the move.
All of 5 live's programming is available on demand via BBC iPlayer on mobile, with live access coming soon. 5 live's podcasts along with the rest of the BBC podcast portfolio can be accessed directly from mobiles on a WiFi connection, without the need to connect with a PC and very soon, visitors to the 5live mobile site will have access to a live audio stream, even over 3G networks.
And we're just getting started.
Brett Spencer is Interactive Editor at BBC Radio 5 live
- Erik Huggers announced the new mobile apps at a mobile phone industry conference in Barcelona. His post on the BBC Internet blog has some interesting slides and David Madden's post - also on the BBC Internet blog - a Flash demo.
- There's a press release on the BBC web site and a blog post by Pete Clifton, Head of Editorial Development at BBC News, on the Editors blog.
- The story has been picked up by the Financial Times and trade papers New Media Age and The Register.
- Picture by Dave Patten. Used under licence.
Comment number 1.
At 13:14 18th Feb 2010, Graves2002 wrote:Have you not notices that portable radio's have been around for a very very long time.
It can not therefore be made "more mobile" that is just typical BBBC hyberbullocks.
And DAB is rubbish, poor reception and insane batery consumption. Stop flogging that horse on behalf of James Brown and his plans to sell off medium wave.
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At 19:37 19th Feb 2010, Torkijo wrote:Personnally i am looking forward to the Apps.
DAB works well for us here (in Warwicksire -Not London) and the battery on my Pure Move lasts weeks so think your buying shoddy equipment (or have just been unlucky)
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At 15:43 21st Apr 2010, Karamjit wrote:Hi just got my new htc android phone, and i have to say that I am enjoying the beebplayer app to watch bbc iplayers on my mobile. But it will be grat if bbc make the htc desire a compatible phone for iplayer like the iphone is. There is one thing thoug, I cannot get bbc 5 live on beebplayer, it says there is an issue with licensing, but saying that the iphone application tuninfn icarradio streams the bbc5live ad bbc5live extra without any restrictions. Anyone out there who can suggest a way to stram bbc5live on android phones.
Thanks
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At 18:33 18th May 2010, Manu wrote:In fact, the mobile will be the new support for Internet. In my opinion, in the next years we will connect only (around 60 or 70%) with our mobile phone or some pads like ipad.
For this reason, I start some application (iphone, ipad, android,…) for my personnal blog.
If we don’t have an application four our site or blog, we will lose lot and lot of visitors.
This is also true for radio or télévision. I will try the BBC Sport and BBC News apps as soon as possible.
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