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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 Radio’s record breaking 250 millionth request in 2005

    BBC Radio’s record breaking 250 millionth request in 2005

    MUMBAI: The BBC Radio Player – which allows people to listen to BBC programmes on the Internet – has reached another significant milestone in clocking up its 250 millionth request for on demand programming, 100 million of which have been in 2005.

    The figures were released as BBC Radio websites broke all their previous records in October, with 7.7 million unique user agents visiting the sites and listening to 16.4 million hours of radio online.

    More than 134 million hours – that’s almost 15,345 years of continuous listening -.of BBC Radio have been consumed via the Internet this year. Leading the on demand charge in October was BBC Radio 4, which experienced a 25 per cent increase in on demand listening hours. .

    BBC Radio and Music Interactive controller Simon Nelson said, “These incredible figures show that people really value the option of listening online and catching up with their favourite programmes if they miss them.”

    The figures also show that since January there have been a massive 4.5 million requests for The Archers on demand. The Archers received more than 700,000 listening requests – double the programme’s average monthly requests during 2004 – whilst new series Empire debuted at number five in the On Demand Top 30.

    BBC 6 Music’s rebroadcast of John Peel’s 1967 BBC radio debut, as part of its 6 Music Plays It Again strand, became the network’s most requested ever programme on demand and contributed to a record 300,000 monthly on demand listening requests for the network.

    BBC Radio 1’s Keeping It Peel minisite generated three million page impressions in October and helped push the network over three million monthly unique user agents for the first time.

  • BBC wins two interactive Baftas

    BBC wins two interactive Baftas

    MUMBAI: The BBC scooped two trophies at the 2003 Bafta Interactive Awards. One was for the Celebdaq website and the other was for the interactive radio drama Dark House.

    Celebdaq is the virtual stock exchange website which allows users to buy and sell shares in celebrities. It won in the Online Entertainment category for the best use of the internet to deliver a pure entertainment experience.

    Celebdaq was created by the BBC’s Interactive Drama & Entertainment department. It was one of the first BBC online formats to successfully transfer to television, becoming a series on BBC Three.

    Meanwhile Dark House invites listeners inside the heads of its three protagonists and, at regular three-minute ‘switching points’, allowed them to change the perspective of the drama by voting by text or by telephone. The show is a joint production between BBC New Media’s creative research and development team, BBC Radio and Music Interactive, Radio 4 and Radio Drama.