主播大秀

Archives for April 2012

What's on 主播大秀 Red Button 28th April - 5th May

Post categories:

Tess Foster Tess Foster | 06:00 UK time, Saturday, 28 April 2012

What's On Red Button banner

In It To Win It

Dale Winton returns with another series of In It To Win It, the game show where people compete on general knowledge for a big money jackpot.

Think you can do better? Every Saturday press the Red Button during the show to pit your wits against our studio contestants. Come the final round will you still be In It To Win It?

Read the rest of this entry

Six Months in the Life of the Radio & Music Product

Post categories: ,听

Andrew Scott Andrew Scott | 13:00 UK time, Thursday, 26 April 2012

Nine people clustered around a whiteboard of sticky ntoes

Team Eno's morning SCRUM meeting

I joined 主播大秀 Future Media in January 2011 as Head of Radio and Music with the job of defining and delivering the new Radio and Music product as part of 主播大秀 Online's 10 products, 4 screens 1 service strategy.

I manage around thirty people which breaks down into:

  • Product Management (decide what we build)
  • Project Management (decide when we build it)
  • Development (decide how we build it and actually build it)

I was extremely lucky to inherit teams of very smart and passionate people with a deep understanding of the portfolio of sites that make up the product, and of the infrastructure which supports that. I am also very fortunate to have a great partnership with the fantastic editorial team in Audio and Music under Mark Friend, who work directly with the Radio Network staff and help us to understand their priorities.

On Friday 4th May at the next 主播大秀 Online Briefing Mark and I will be presenting an update on the Radio & Music product. So this seemed like a good time to give you an in depth look at what we've been doing in the past six months.

Read the rest of this entry

主播大秀 Red Button Blog 21st - 28th April

Post categories:

Tess Foster Tess Foster | 06:00 UK time, Saturday, 21 April 2012

What's On Red Button banner

C主播大秀Extra

Ceallach and Hacker

C主播大秀 Extra

Press red on the C主播大秀 channel this week and join special guest presenter Ceallach from Friday Download as he and Hacker T. Dog introduce exclusive clips from all new Horrible Histories and Trade Your Way to the USA as well as revisiting C主播大秀 favourites, Dani's House and Sam and Mark's Big Wind Up.

You can also read Chris and Dodge's blog, answers to some of your questions, read your horoscopes and see if the jokes that made Chris and Dodge LOL will have the same effect on you.

Go on, press red... You know you want to!

C主播大秀 Extra website

Available on all platforms

Read the rest of this entry

Connected Studio 1: home page, search and navigation

Post categories: ,听,听

Adrian Woolard | 11:05 UK time, Thursday, 19 April 2012

Last week I told you about the Connected Studio programme.

Places are now available to work with the 主播大秀page, Search & Navigation teams at the first event on May 4th. This post is about how to apply.

You can read (PDF) and watch videos from the teams (see below) explaining how the homepage, search, and navigation products work and the teams' future ambitions.

We have also drawn up (PDF) and - inspired by our research partners at - a Connected Studio chart (PDF) to explain the benefits of getting involved.

主播大秀page

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash Installed. Visit 主播大秀 Webwise for full instructions. If you're reading via RSS, you'll need to visit the blog to access this content.

Read the rest of this entry

主播大秀 Mundo iPhone app

Post categories: ,听

Phil Buckley Phil Buckley | 15:11 UK time, Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Screengrabs of the iPhone app

The app offers two different default homepages

A month or so ago I blogged about the iPhone app for the 主播大秀 Russian service, and about how we hoped to roll out further apps very quickly; and today you can see the next step with the release of our iPhone app for our Latin American Spanish Service, .

Read the rest of this entry

Digital Public Space: Data Guides

Post categories: ,听,听,听

Mo McRoberts Mo McRoberts | 09:00 UK time, Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Last year, my colleagues in 主播大秀 Archive Development and I wrote some blog posts about the Digital Public Space project, which uses Semantic Web technology as a way to help unlock the value in the archives of the 主播大秀 and other publicly-funded institutions.

Since those posts, our efforts have been focussed upon delivering the technology platform for a joint project with Arts Council England called 鈥淭he Space鈥 which will be available between May and October this year.

However, we haven鈥檛 lost sight of the vision for the Digital Public Space project, and I wanted to share with you a piece of work which has come from that.

Read the rest of this entry

Sports Refresh: Dynamic Semantic Publishing

Post categories: ,听,听,听

Jem Rayfield | 11:00 UK time, Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Hi, I'm Jem Rayfield, and I work as Lead Technical Architect for the News and Knowledge Core Engineering department.

This blog post describes the technology strategy the 主播大秀 Future Media department is using to evolve from a relational content model and static publishing framework towards a fully dynamic semantic publishing (DSP) architecture. The DSP architectural approach underpins the recently re-launched and refreshed 主播大秀 Sports site and indeed the 主播大秀's Olympics 2012 online content.

DSP uses linked data technology to automate the aggregation, publishing and re-purposing of interrelated content objects according to an domain-modelled information architecture,听providing a greatly improved user experience and high levels of user engagement.

The DSP architecture curates and publishes HTML and aggregations based on embedded Linked Data identifiers, ontologies and associated inference.

Read the rest of this entry

What's on 主播大秀 Red Button 14th - 21st April

Post categories:

Tess Foster Tess Foster | 06:00 UK time, Saturday, 14 April 2012

What's On Red Button banner

Olivier Awards

OlivierAwards

Watch the 2012 Olivier Awards live and uninterrupted on 主播大秀 Red Button. Radio 2's Anneka Rice will present from the red carpet at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House. The ceremony, including star-studded musical numbers, begins at 6pm.

Tune in on Monday 16th April to watch highlights from the event.

Read the rest of this entry

Connected Studio: Launching Phase One

Post categories:

Adrian Woolard | 16:40 UK time, Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Server racks

Servers for 主播大秀 Redux, an innovative research project聽around serving on-demand audio and video

Late last year Ralph Rivera, Director 主播大秀 Future Media, unveiled his vision for the Connected Studio. As the person responsible for delivering the first phase of the Connected Studio, I鈥檇 like to give you a sense of what we aim to deliver over the next 12 months, and why.

Connected Studio enables the creative community and 主播大秀 staff to work in partnership to develop new features for 主播大秀 Online. Today we鈥檙e launching phase one of that initiative, a 12 month series of events where external and internal creatives can get together in a room with 主播大秀 tools and assets, and brainstorm and pilot new formats and functionality.

Focused on the聽ten 主播大秀 Online products, the programme will make available up to 拢2m of investment to fund pilot projects which audiences will be able to trial.

The first set of Studio events will be based around the 主播大秀page, Search and Navigation Products running their first Creative Studio event in MediaCityUK. Check out the call for ideas and sign-up at bbc.co.uk/rd/connectedstudio to join us at these events starting on May 4th. Once you鈥檝e registered interest, you鈥檒l also be kept up to date about all forthcoming Connected Studio events.

Read the rest of this entry

主播大秀 Sport App on Connected TVs: launches on TiVo

Post categories: ,听

Aaron Scullion | 10:28 UK time, Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Mock-up of the new 主播大秀 Sport App for Connected TVs, showing live Formula 1 coverage

In my role as Executive Product Manager in 主播大秀 Future Media, I'm responsible for launching and developing 主播大秀 products - such as News and Sport - on Connected TV.

It鈥檚 a hugely exciting time to be working on such products, with the Olympics on the horizon. They are set to be the first truly digital Games and last week Roger Mosey announced that 2,500 hours of live Olympics coverage will be available in HD, via 主播大秀 Red Button and 24 dedicated channels.

My main focus for the past year has been working out how we would also make this content 鈥 which will also be available on the 主播大秀 Sport website - .

As such, I'm pleased to announce that today we have launched the 主播大秀 Sport app for connected TVs, enabling audiences to access the 主播大秀鈥檚 interactive coverage of major sporting events via the 主播大秀 Red Button.

Read the rest of this entry

What's On 主播大秀 Red Button 7th - 14th April

Post categories:

Tess Foster Tess Foster | 06:00 UK time, Saturday, 7 April 2012

What's On Red Button banner

6 Music's 10th birthday - a Look Back

6MusicBirthday

De La Soul

Some of the best live music from 6 Music's recent 10th birthday celebrations at Maida Vale and Southbank will be on the Red Button this week.

Featured artists included Paul Weller, De La Soul, PiL, Graham Coxon, SBTRKT, Spiritualized, Orbital and many more!

Read the rest of this entry

Blue Room: The Easter Bunny goes Digital

Post categories:

Lindsey Suter Lindsey Suter | 12:40 UK time, Thursday, 5 April 2012

View of mobile devices on a desk in the Blue Room, with a corner of a living room and a car dashboard in the background.

A digital easter egg on a tablet in the 主播大秀 Blue Room. Photo taken with the Blue Room's OWLE camera attachment and an iPhone.

Happy Easter from the 主播大秀 Blue Room

My job is demonstrating amazing technology to other staff at the 主播大秀 Blue Room - and the Blue Room has been redesigned, just in time for Easter

The 主播大秀 Blue Room is the 主播大秀's technology showcase, designed to raise awareness amongst 主播大秀 staff on how the world of consumer technology is changing the broadcasting industry. The new room - as you can see in the photos - is closer to places you consume 主播大秀 content, whether that's a living room or the front seat of a car.

Read the rest of this entry

Delivering the digital Olympics: 24 live streams via the red button

Post categories: ,听,听

Phil Fearnley Phil Fearnley | 10:11 UK time, Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Black and white photo of office with cabinets of 1950s electronics

Vision switching centre in Broadcasting House, during the 1952 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Phil Fearnley hopes that the Olympics will do for digital and connected TV what the coronation did for analogue TV.

In August last year, Roger Mosey, the 主播大秀鈥檚 Director for 2012, and I set out our editorial and digital ambitions for the 主播大秀鈥檚 coverage of the Games at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival. We have come a long way since then, and over the past year, my team has been bringing those digital ambitions to life.

One of the key elements of that strategy is to bring our audiences over 2,500 hours of live sport online via 24 High Definition streams - every sport, from every venue on every day 鈥 across four screens: PC, mobile, tablet and connected TV.

Today, we have announced plans which allow cable and satellite providers to deliver the same 24 streams that will be available on the 主播大秀 Sport website, via the 主播大秀 Red Button service and corresponding EPG channels. Roger Mosey has blogged about this, and I wanted to outline how this will work technically in a little more detail.

Read the rest of this entry

More from this blog...

主播大秀 iD

主播大秀 navigation

主播大秀 漏 2014 The 主播大秀 is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more.

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.