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|16:00 UK time, Tuesday, 15 March 2011
LIVERPOOL
The world famous Grand National is celebrating its 163rd year this year and 5 live is going to be there at Aintree and also in Liverpool as we broadcast some of our programmes live from the city. We're bringing together all the elements of the 5 live mix including news, sport, debate and entertainment in front of live audiences at the Epstein Theatre (formerly The Neptune Theatre).
On Wednesday 6 April, Eleanor Oldroyd hosts a "Meet the Racing Team" Q+A evening with guests Clare Balding, Cornelius Lysaght, John Hunt and Mick Fitzgerald.
Tony Livesey's programme comes from there on the Thursday evening and includes a debate about the economy in the Merseyside region. Later, Tony McCoy has promised to join Kicking off with Colin Murray again Friday night because he wants to have exactly the same routine as he did last year when he won the National for the first time.
And on the Saturday 9 April, 5 live has teamed up with BBC Radio Merseyside to stage our biggest ever live audience show - Fighting Talk in front of 2,000 people in Liverpool's Empire Theatre. All tickets are free of course and are available now - click here to head to the ticketing page.
SCHEDULE
There are one or two other bits of programme and schedule news to fill you in on. This Friday at 11am, it is the Champions League draw, followed at midday by a one hour Kermode and Mayo Film Review. And then at 1pm, John Inverdale hosts Cheltenham Gold Cup day.
At 9.30pm Tony Livesey comes in for a rare Friday night presentation as he hosts the late night show from behind the scenes at the BBC's Comic Relief night. Within Tony's programme, there is a really powerful documentary hosted and reported by Helen Skelton which looks at the sexual exploitation of young teenage girls in the UK and how one of the UK-based Comic Relief projects is trying to help with the problem.
Wednesday 23 March is Budget Day. We will, of course, have PMQ's and the Budget live - followed by a forensic analysis with Peter Allen and guests at Westminster at 4pm.
On 24 March David Davies has a special programme within 5 live Sport on whether Britain will have a football team in London 2012. He looks at all the politics that might prevent a fully representative British team. Plus explores who might be the manager?
On Wednesday 30 March, we have another special programme within 5 live Sport called "Total Blackout" - which examines why there are so few black managers across the whole of English football.
NEW PROGRAMMES
Laura Kuennsberg,Sam Walker and Nick Hancock will join the 5 live presenting line-up this summer.
Laura from BBC's political team, and Sam, currently a presenter for both Key 103 and Radio Manchester, will team up to host the new Sunday morning programme 9.30 - 11am from 10 July called "Double Take". The programme is essentially a chance to stop and re-analyse from every angle the main news stories of the week, and to look at how stories are likely to develop over the week ahead.
Nick will host a new topical news comedy show produced by Hat Trick, the makers of Have I Got News for You. It is called "At the Back End of Next Week" and will start on 8 May at 11am.
Also beginning on the 8 May, Tony Livesey will host a Sunday morning 9.30am programme series entitled "We're All in This Together". Each week he will look at a different issue under the microscope - heatlh, education etc. What are the implications for each subject in light of the Spending Review? What are the priorities and is there a different perspective depending on where you live in the UK?
Finally, we have been able to secure the broadcast rights for the second leg of Liverpool's Europa Cup tie against Braga this Thursday - so tune in to hear all the commentary live from 8pm.
Related Links
Click here more information about tickets for all programmes coming out of Liverpool in March.
Comment number 1.
At 16:58 15th Mar 2011, Jackstumps wrote:Strange you pull out all the stops for a fading event on the doorstep of your new home.
Cheltenham? Ah, that's in sleepy old Gloucestershire. Colin Murray wouldn't want to there. No body would understand him (?)
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Comment number 2.
At 17:03 15th Mar 2011, Jackstumps wrote:Reading in more depth this is looking a bit too much like Radio Manc.
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Comment number 3.
At 17:17 15th Mar 2011, carrie wrote:Flipping heck. Lancashire takes over.
Sadly one of the things that we detractors write seems never to be taken on board, the rest of the country is left out! Unless you are encouraging people to slag off London of course, then all comers are welcome to moan about the place. If I lived in Plymouth or Durham or Norwich or Cardiff I would be pretty fed up at the way all your planning goes down/up there at 5Live towers.Still I expect the BBC hangers on will be twittering madly from Bechers Brook: "Fantastic atmosphere!!!!Horses nearly all fell!!!!!Bring on Kuala Lumpur!!"
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Comment number 4.
At 20:01 15th Mar 2011, Prosperos Girl wrote:Sorry, not sure where else I can ask this question, but why is there no commentary on the Man U match online tonight? There is just a loop of old programme clips. There is a listen live link, but no live commentary.
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Comment number 5.
At 21:13 15th Mar 2011, carrie wrote:You old tease prosperosgirl. It's on Talksport, who won the contract, of course. You must get used to 5Live money going on Business seats to Tokyo, moves to Salford, second and third homes for the great and good of the station, you know the sort of thing, not actual broadcasting, pet.
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Comment number 6.
At 21:51 15th Mar 2011, ryanw wrote:Oh how true Carrie! Prosperogirl, the money has been squandered on gifting £1900 per month to 5Livers and other Beeboids who are choosing to move to Salford.
It seems the second phase to the destruction of 5Live is well underway, first with had 5Lite now we have 5Lite Lancashire.
We never did get an answer from Imogen on who the reporters were for the regions and nations of the UK for 5Live did we. Seems like it's Manchester or bust these days...
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Comment number 7.
At 22:40 15th Mar 2011, carrie wrote:Maybe Tony Livesey can do a one-off 5Live spending review all of its own instead of the HM Treasury ones. I know we can get the answers eventually under FOI (unless its the costs of Nolan's hotel bills and airfares, if I recall correctly we were not allowed these as they came under something like legitimate expenses ho ho) but I can't be bothered.
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Comment number 8.
At 07:21 16th Mar 2011, Fedster wrote:5live do not have online rights to Man u home games in the Champions League, the online Commentary must have been through the Man u official website.
I think Jonathan you could explain the Rights situation a bit more, i am aware that there was a blog by AVK on the Premiership Rights before the season started, but there are still alot of anomolies, such as why some Premiership games are not covered by any station, even though there is room in the respective schedules.
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Comment number 9.
At 08:52 16th Mar 2011, carrie wrote:The Sun has a big article today about BBC expenses. Within it can be found the real reason why the rights were lost. The BBC still had Alan Green and whoever else at the match because you can hear him screaming commentary on the news. However, when one can see that the BBC spent £13.3 million on taxi fares last year you begin to see why you missed the match prosperosgirl.
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Comment number 10.
At 11:51 16th Mar 2011, ryanw wrote:A few choice snippets...
"£13.3million on taxi fares" ... "£2.4million on food and drink at meetings and functions" ... "£23,500 on Christmas trees and decorations" ... "Hire cars in the last financial year cost £5million" ... "£2.4million was spent last year subsidising the cost of catering outlets that failed to break even." [why are they subsided? in the commerical sector employees pay full whack] .. "They spent £573,000 on a lavish temporary studio for the Euro 2008 football championship in Austria, despite the fact that no British team qualified"
... no wonder there's no money in the kitty for programming!
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Comment number 11.
At 13:29 16th Mar 2011, Imogen Crump wrote:Morning all. Right - I've asked Jonathan to respond to a couple of things here.
In response to your question about Cheltenham jackstumps, Jonathan wrote: "Describing the Grand National as a fading event is an interesting opinion. I'm not sure we agree with it. As for Cheltenham, we have just had a big live Monday night preview show in front of an audience, Gabby's show came from the course yesterday and John Inverdale is hosting all four afternoon shows from there this week. So we feel we are giving that event the coverage it merits as well."
Prosperogirl and Fedster - although carrie has given her opinion on the matter - I asked Jonathan to clarify where we sit with regards to rights:
"We did of course have the Manchester United game on 5 live last night. "We have the Chelsea game tonight and last week we had the Spurs and Arsenal ties. We don't usually have on-line rights as well for some of these games which is why the commentaries are not always available there. As for the Premier League, it is a little bit compicated because it involves 3 different national radio stations.
"5 live has exclusive coverage of 128 Premier League games because we have the rights to 4 of the packages that were available - that includes Saturday 12.45pm games, first choice pick of the Saturday 3pm match, Sunday 4pm games and Monday/Tuesday night matches. Talksport has 64 matches in its contract - based around Saturday 5.30pm games and early Sunday afternoon matches mainly.
"And Absolute Radio also have their share of the action - they have 32 commentaries on a Saturday afternoon at 3pm - offering an alternative commentary to the 5 live selection which can only be good for the audience to have more choice in that slot.
That's a simplified version of how it works but I hope that helps."
And ryanw - you're right - completely forgot to give you the numbers of RJs and their locations/remits:
Scotland - 2
North east of England - 1
North west of England - 1
Yorkshire - 2
East Midlands - 1
West Midlands - 2
South of England - 1
South west of England - 1
Wales - 1
South east of England - 2
Politics - 1
General - 1
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Comment number 12.
At 14:29 16th Mar 2011, carrie wrote:Poor old East Anglia.
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Comment number 13.
At 18:03 16th Mar 2011, Prosperos Girl wrote:Thanks for all the replies to my question.
I listen to 5live online and accept that there may be rights issues causing some of the coverage to vary. However I found it odd that the listen live link on the programme page last night promoted the commentary of the Man U match which I then was unable to listen to.
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Comment number 14.
At 23:01 16th Mar 2011, ryanw wrote:Thanks for the info Imogen.
Are these journalists local to their area? And are all of them dedicated to 5Live? Which are and which aren't? I do wonder if some of these are token assignments. I was hoping you would give us names not just numbers. Some people / regions seems to be MIA on 5Live. When was the last time there was a reporter filing from Wales or the South West.
Since the move of 5Live to Salford there seems to be a far greater bias to North East & West, esp. Manchester than there ever was to London.
Oh and why has 5Live completely ignored the people of East Anglia?
It's not very good... then again I guess it is a long taxi fare from Manchester to Norfolk. I suppose we should expect the £13.3 million taxi bill to grow now also. Thanks Hazel.
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Comment number 15.
At 06:18 17th Mar 2011, Fedster wrote:Thanks for the reply Imogen, really intresting read, however as stated that was the simple explaniation in terms of football rights, i would be intrested in hearing the details of why some Premiership matches are not covered by any station, even though none of the 3 stations are covering any live sport.
So for example Sunderland played Newcastle on the 16th January 2011, this tie was not covered by any of the TV Channels, as well as not being covered by any Radio station.
Why is this? surely it would be better having live football on air, rather than a dull football talk show.
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Comment number 16.
At 13:14 17th Mar 2011, Imogen Crump wrote:Afternoon,
ryanw - you have a lot of questions there. I think what I'll do is attempt to get a blog series up from the RJs explaining what they do and where etc. I'll let you know how I get on with that.
Fedster - I think perhaps you were right in your orginal post, this requires a whole stand alone post! I will work on trying to get that from someone who knows a lot more about this than I do to write it and let you know.
prosperogirl - what you're describing sounds like some sort of technical glitch. I'll look into it. But as far as I'm aware it was all working! Will come back if I find out any differently.
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Comment number 17.
At 15:28 17th Mar 2011, zelda wrote:Can I just say on this blog ( as there is no where else to put it), I was disgusted this morning on the VD show (I know she was off but I think it was Phil Williams standing in for her) whilst interviewing a senior member of the Japanese Embassy about the terrible crisis in his country - the presenter broke into the very serious interview the news that England had lost another wicket. For heavens sake couldn't he have waited a couple of minutes to inpart that piece of news to us? I was appalled.
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Comment number 18.
At 08:18 18th Mar 2011, carrie wrote:I know alot of the posters say who they think AVK has overlooked to join permanently on to various programmes, Dalya seems to be the most mentioned. What of course we all overlook is that maybe Dalya and the others don't want those gigs. Fair enough. I agree with zeldalicious by the way in @17, this so often happens. Immediately after news of Libya and meltdown this morning Nicky and Shelagh went in to one of their bounce off each other jokies about Moyles and how fantastic it was he had broadcasted 48 hours for Comic Relief. I know they went on to Wyatt re: the UN but really these interspersed laugh ins are so inappropriate and the tone should be serious for heaven's sake. Turned over to Radio Four.
There is nowhere on message as usual for me to post this so it is off topic. I thought Adil Ray was so fantastic on Livesey last night. Great incisive interviews showing personal knowledge. Anchoring such a long programme with such serious things going on, now there is someone if he wasn't so busy with all his successful irons in his fire, that would really lift the 5Live bar.
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Comment number 19.
At 08:56 18th Mar 2011, ryanw wrote:Carrie, I totally agree about Adil Ray. It is was a flashback to better times, when news mattered and twittering was just something birds do. Great programme last night.
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Comment number 20.
At 12:08 21st Mar 2011, carrie wrote:It would be good to have a dedicated blog on the 5Live Libya coverage. Any chance?
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Comment number 21.
At 12:12 21st Mar 2011, ryanw wrote:Carrie, are you seriously suggesting a topical blog about breaking news? It'll never happen.
This is a light entertainment radio station, no time for such serious matters.
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Comment number 22.
At 12:20 21st Mar 2011, ryanw wrote:Look's like Rachel Burden is towing the Corporation line, paying homage to Twitter today... more compelling radio coming up.
rachelburden Rachel Burden by bbc5live
Happy 5th birthday Twitter. @ruskin147 will be telling us why its changed his life later. Has it changed yours?
https://twitter.com/
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Comment number 23.
At 13:45 21st Mar 2011, carrie wrote:Bacon is tempting us: what would we keep from the BBC if they have to make big cuts........stop me now.
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Comment number 24.
At 18:28 21st Mar 2011, zelda wrote:I do not know one single person who 'twitters'. My 23 year old son doesn't either nor my 34 years old daughter. Both are in work and both widely socialise.
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Comment number 25.
At 20:30 22nd Mar 2011, ryanw wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 26.
At 08:03 23rd Mar 2011, carrie wrote:Rachel has been asking for advice on how to help her voice quality, which is apparently causing problems doing early mornings. (6.45 am ish)
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