Five Live Partnership
The next big thing.
Over the next couple of months backstage and Five Live are teaming up to try and produce some amazing ideas and prototypes. The idea is to place old media and new media right next to one another, compress, mix, add a spoonful of sugar and see what happens.
Five Live produces some amazing content, content that lends itself perfectly to being mixed and mashed with a whole hosts of feeds we already provide, and several which we'll be announcing for the first time with this project.
We're also going to pull together feeds from other providers (such as The Office of National Statistics) as well as some interesting feeds based around speech recognition and pattern recognition.
Brett Spencer is Five Live's Interactive Editor, these are his thoughts;
Five Live is already the home of live news and sport. Five Live is THE place for the listener to interact, respond and rant about news, current affairs and issues important to them. But we still have lots to do. Five Live has expanded across the multi-platform environment this year but we want to do a lot more.
With your help we would like to find a new way to see what our listeners are thinking, what they are reacting to and how feel about news. What else could they be seeing online while they listen live to the Radio station? How could our radio station join up more effectively with other parts of the web? How can we enable the listener to interact more effectively with us and in turn more effectively with each other via Five Live.
We are encouraging people to "Be The Editor" on a Friday morning when they get to pick the subjects on air. But how do we gear our content to what they are talking about with their friends and down the pub on a daily or even hourly basis?
Five Live makes extensive use of texts on air, but now so does everybody else. How can we take that to the next stage? With your help we would like to find a way to move our listeners and our on air content even closer to our six million listeners. The potential is huge. Working with you and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Backstage we would like to unlock it via an ongoing dialogue around the possibilities available to us.
At the end of the partnership backstage will fund the development of the best prototype / idea and Five Live will then commission the prototype to a live bbc.co.uk server.
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