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  • BBC Radio announces two appointments

    BBC Radio announces two appointments

    MUMBAI: BBC Radio and Music Interactive controller Simon Nelson has made two new appointments to his senior management team:

    Radio Interactive head Chris Kimber becomes Radio and Music Interactive managing editor. Kimber’s new role will involve management of interactive output on music radio networks – Radios 1, 2 and 3 and digital networks 1Xtra and 6 Music – as well as the Music Interactive team, the /music website and Music Learning projects such as One Music.

    Ayesha Mohideen, a senior business manager, has been appointed as the head of Speech Radio Interactive. Mohideen will take charge of all activity for BBC speech radio genres, including management of the interactive teams in Radio 4, BBC 7, Asian Network, Radio Five Live and Five Live Sports Extra.

    Both will start in their new roles in the New Year and will continue to report to Nelson.

    Radio & Music Interactive manages BBC Radio output on DAB digital radio, digital television – Freeview, cable and satellite – mobile devices and online – including the BBC Radio Player, downloading and podcasting.

  • BBC internet radio users up 70 per cent on 2004

    BBC internet radio users up 70 per cent on 2004

    MUMBAI: UK broadcaster The BBC has announced that its radio services are growing in popularity. Nearly seven million unique British users visited its radio websites in January.

    This marks a year-on-year increase of 70 per cent and the highest ever for BBC Radio.

    Listeners heard a record 4.2 million hours of radio on-demand, with digital-only services spearheading the increase: 1Xtra, 6 Music, Asian Network and BBC 7 all reported record on-demand listening, totalling 1.2 million hours.

    6 Music saw record online listening, with a combined live and on-demand total topping half a million hours. Asian Network’s Top 40 Soundtracks vote pushed weekly unique users of the network’s site over 60,000 for the first time in early January. 1Xtra gave another impressive performance with more than 500,000 hours of online listening and 70,000 on-demand requests for the M1X Show.

    For January 2005 Radio 4’s The Archers attracted 456,975 users. The same station’s show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue got 252,618 users.