The Chris Moyles Show tour on the red button
Post categories: Chris Moyles, Radio 1, outside broadcast, red button, visualisation
|08:33 AM, Monday, 1 November 2010
The Chris Moyles Show Tour happens to coincide with Radio 1's Access All Areas week - when we throw open the doors of Yalding House (figuratively for the masses and literally for a lucky few) for all to see.
There's an expectation that audiences want to watch as well as listen to outside broadcasts (OBs) of a certain scale nowadays. So, when this project landed in the inbox, we thought we'd try to find a way of making a bigger splash with the AAA element. We eventually decided to give the audience a higher level of access to Chris and the show than they've ever had before. As well as a live stream online, users will (for the first time) be able to watch the action live on their TVs (by pressing the red button). Additionally, for those viewers on the way to work, the stream will also be live on 16 BBC Big Screens across the UK.
We've tried to incorporate the visualisation element without affecting the 'sound' of the programme. Some features that are usually audio-only have been produced on video this time, so that the audience watching on TV has something to watch as well as hear - the radio programme will play out our audio during these features. On the flip-side, we have also prepared video items to play out over long segues in the radio programme to keep the TV audience engaged.
Technically - We're using 9 cameras in total, some robotic, some operated. OB facilities are from SiS, who we've worked with before and who have been very flexible in delivering what is a somewhat unconventional OB. We're sending the transmission by satellite to Satellite Operations at TV Centre where the red button video will play out and our partners Red Bee will handle our online stream from Broadcast Centre.
Please let us know what you think of the whole experience!
Adam Heyhurst is Series Producer for the Chris Moyles Show Tour
- The Chris Moyles Show tour is directed by Will Kinder. Executive Producer is Ben Chapman.
- Access All Areas week is under way now. Full details on the Radio 1 web site.
- The Chris Moyles Show tour is on the Radio 1 web site, on the red button and on BBC Big Screens around Britain. Details here. Chris was in Portsmouth this morning and will be in Newport, Derby, Darlington, Perth for the rest of the week. Tickets for all four Cities are sold out.
- The Chris Moyles Show is on Facebook and the team is on Twitter.
- The hashtag for Access All Areas is #R1AAA
Comment number 1.
At 12:44 1st Nov 2010, j0annepsi wrote:What a colossal waste of my TV licence money - Why do you need to put this on the red button and on "big screens" around the country? It's *RADIO*, not television!
What's wrong with copying 6music's approach to OB at Glastonbury this year by having a live video feed of the studio on your website?
Forcing the Chris Moyles show on people is not going to help his plummeting ratings.
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Comment number 2.
At 09:40 2nd Nov 2010, Andy Parsnip wrote:We really are very excited by this tour. All your breakfast show favourites will be there, including:
Hilarious 40 minute rant.
Workplace bullying.
In-joke teasers.
Stories about celebrity friends.
Hangovers.
The very best from Radio 1 'A' Playlist.
Catch it early before Mr Moyles goes Global.
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At 10:08 2nd Nov 2010, LoudGeoffW wrote:I think this blog encapsulates just about everything wrong with the BBC at the moment. Quite astonishing timing too, considering the onerous burdens being placed upon the BBC by the current Government, to be promoting the fact that you’re using nine cameras, including robotic ones, video streaming, satellite feeds, red button facilities and all the paraphernalia used to cover really important OB events apparently to produce a televised radio show consisting of a group of blokes chatting about what happened in the curry house the night before. Astonishing – clearly the R1 budget needs a severe trim and redistributing to far more worthy causes in the BBC empire.
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At 11:10 7th Nov 2010, U14532624 wrote:I think Radio 1 budget should go to BBC Two/BBC Four
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