Blog posts by year and monthOctober 2010
Posts (24)
Roger Mosey blog - A Capital Idea
"This is a post with lots of initials in it. So stand by for not just IOC and LOCOG but OBS, EBU, ODA and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ - because I want to explain a bit about what we do week in and week out on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 2012 project, and how it takes many cooks to create this particular broth". Roger Mosey, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Director o...
Radio Blog - HD sound for the Electric Proms
"You may have heard that we offered an extra high quality (320kbs AAC) online audio stream for the last week of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms this year (read about the experiment on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Internet blog). The feedback we received was almost universally good. Listeners really appreciated the richer sound quality...
Electric Proms - Creating New Moments in Music
Sir Elton John photographed by Joseph Guay This year is the first year that Radio 2 took over sole responsibility for the Electric Proms but the concept remains the same and that is its dedication to creating new moments in music. Working in partnership with Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ2 we wanted to create a uniqu...
Bristol - Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Anchor Partnership One Year On
Today I'm in Bristol to mark the anniversary of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's first city partnership - which we've called the Bristol - Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Anchor partnership, paying tribute to the city's seafaring history. Our partners are Bristol City Council, the South West Regional Development Agency; South West Screen; the c...
Radio Blog - Sir Michael Lyons on new licence fee settlement
"In this week's edition of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's in-house newspaper 'Ariel', the main feature is about the heavy workload the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's chief operating officer, Caroline Thomson, now has as a result of the recent cull of executive board members. One of her three main responsibilities, it said, was preparing for ...
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Online - Adopting Product Management
Last week, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Academy launched its Product Management Development Programme to give staff an overview of the discipline and the skills it entails. At the same time, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Academy published a specially-commissioned report into the state of product management in 2010. I'm delighted that th...
Celebrating Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Partnerships in Bristol
I can't believe it's been a whole year since the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ announced its first ever city partnership, yet here we are about to celebrate the first anniversary of the Anchor Collaboration in Bristol. The partnership saw key media organisations in the city agree to work together to create a media and cre...
This Time Eighty Years Ago
As I sit here in Maida Vale's Studio 1 watching the load-in of what looks like the national supply of percussion instruments, I wonder what my predecessor might have been thinking 80 years ago today in the lead up to the very first concert by the newly-created Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. The Orchestr...
Exchanges at the Frontier - a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service series
Do you want to live forever? The work of Cynthia Kenyon, an eminent Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics is at the cutting edge in the scientific quest for the fountain of youth. In her laboratory in California she has genetically altered worms so they live twice as long as normally, as she t...
The Spending Review - a press round-up
Yesterday the Chancellor George Osborne unveiled details of the Spending Review in the House of Commons. Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Trust responded to the announcement of a new licence fee settlement in a statement that was published on the Trust website. In an interview on Radio 4's ...