[MC]

Does using this link still class as a hit for Listen Again?

The point of the Extra is to get more hits and beat The Archers.

I think so. I always use those links - I find it a lot easier to listen to the show in Real Player.

Btw, to whoever asked about the figures...

Top 30 On-Demand Programmes On BBC Radio (Number Of Monthly Listens):

1. The Archers (Radio 4) 354,401
2. Chris Moyles (Radio 1) 347,796
3. Essential Mix (Radio 1) 188,573
4. The Essential Selection (Radio 1) 174,925
5. Dance Anthems (Radio 1) 146,216
6. The Official Chart Show (Radio 1) 122,596
7. Just A Minute (Radio 4) 117,209
8. The News Quiz (Radio 4) 114,894
9. Zane Lowe (Radio 1) 109,968
10. Jonathan Ross (Radio 2) 94,996
11. The M1X Show (1Xtra) 90,350
12. Blue Room (Radio 1) 87,172
13. Jo Whiley (Radio 1) 87,170
14. Judge Jules (Radio 1) 83,755
15. Terry Wogan (Radio 2) 76,873
16. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (BBC 7) 74,236
17. Gilles Peterson (Radio 1) 73,525
18. The Goon Show (BBC 7) 72,035
19. The Radio 1 Rap Show (Radio 1) 64,264
20. Steve Wright In The Afternoon (Radio 2) 62,306
21. Dead Ringers (BBC 7) 59,538
22. Sounds Of The 60s (Radio 2) 56,547
23. Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off (Radio 4) 55,476
24. Annie Mac (Radio 1) 52,796
25. Robbo Ranx Dancehall Splurt (1Xtra) 45,607
26. That Mitchell And Webb Sound (Radio 4) 45,159
27. Mark Radcliffe (Radio 2) 44,566
28. Annie Nightingale (Radio 1) 43,618
29. Scott Mills (Radio 1) 43,536
30. Lamacq Live (Radio 1) 42,079

stick that up your arse Wogan.

On a side note (see no. 25) what the hell is a "dancehall splurt"? sounds wrong.

[Andy Bkr]

robbo ranx?????? i bet he does

[Uglybob]

no sara cox in the top 30 then

i listen to it cos i hate the music and the 5 min and 15 minute things dont help much. i find it easier skipping the songs on realplayer. id say youd get more listeners on listen again if you just played the exclusives, parodies and the talking. it would be shorter. the thing is the archers is only 15 minutes long. what you could do instead is a 15 minute digest of show to rival it.

[Ste]

Only problem is the editing would take ages.

[gregs]

Only problem is the editing would take ages.

if they were really clever, they could set it up to only rot when the mic's are live... certainly possible

[Sidders]

stick that up your arse Wogan.

'sonly becuase Wogan's listeners are all grannys and dunno what listen again is.

[Andy Bkr]

or even know what the t'internet is

[Sidders]

or even know what the t'internet is

Exactly.

[fish heads]

Although the t'internet joke is about as old as most grannies anyway.

[Andy Bkr]

would u expect anything better from me?

[fish heads]

I was, actually

[Quincy]

you were wrong to

[fish heads]

I've realised the error of my ways now.

[DemonHorse]

Love the fact that The Goon Show is being rebroadcast. At least I hope it's a rebroadcast of all the 1s my dad has on tape and vinyl in the house, and not a remake. Genius.

Definately another thing that should NEVER be remade. Eccles, Bluebottle, Gripipe thynn (thats prob spelt wrong, that 1) etc wouldn't work if modernised, plus Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers etc will never be bettered at this type of surreal comedy.

EDIT:

Dunno if anyone else has noticed and mentioned this before (and can't be bothered checking) but I've just noticed on BBC7, the BBC radio player has 1 min and 15 min rewind buttons. Anyone know why this is? I'm guessing it's to do with the copyrighted music and the fact that BBC7 has very little if any of it.

[Uglybob]

yep, same with 5live

[Andy Bkr]

didnt know 5live had it will have 2 listen to last weeks fighting talk

[David]

Dunno if anyone else has noticed and mentioned this before (and can't be bothered checking) but I've just noticed on BBC7, the BBC radio player has 1 min and 15 min rewind buttons. Anyone know why this is? I'm guessing it's to do with the copyrighted music and the fact that BBC7 has very little if any of it.

Yep, one of the deals with the music companies is that we are not allowed to rewind the music so we cant easily re-record it (however we could just start it again). Because there is no full music tracks played on 5 Live on BBC 7 then they can put rewind buttons in. You will also find for a lot of 5 Live stuff there is a link in the Radio Player to open it up in a stand alone real one window.

[Uglybob]

didnt know 5live had it will have 2 listen to last weeks fighting talk

nah its crap

1. no steve bunce
2. that woman is on it and she wins so that = rubbish

[Aled]

Only problem is the editing would take ages.

if they were really clever, they could set it up to only rot when the mic's are live... certainly possible

That was actually discussed. We do record mic only as well as full rots. But it was dismissed. Radio 1 is a music station.

[Aled]

no sara cox in the top 30 then

i listen to it cos i hate the music and the 5 min and 15 minute things dont help much. i find it easier skipping the songs on realplayer. id say youd get more listeners on listen again if you just played the exclusives, parodies and the talking. it would be shorter. the thing is the archers is only 15 minutes long. what you could do instead is a 15 minute digest of show to rival it.

Listen Again is a BBC devised thing to give people the opportunity of hearing shows again if they missed it live. It's not really about ratings - that's us making it a ratings thing. If we started editing our Listen Again then you're getting away of it's reason for being which is to replay the show as it went out. Same as the 15 minute digest. That wouldn't count because it wasn't what was broadcast live.

[gregs]

Only problem is the editing would take ages.

if they were really clever, they could set it up to only rot when the mic's are live... certainly possible

That was actually discussed. We do record mic only as well as full rots. But it was dismissed. Radio 1 is a music station.

totally agree with aled there.. granted moyles is funny and that is why we all listen to the show, but with british music so good at the moment it would be wrong to edit it out of listen again.. some people may listen again for the music

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

is it just on my computer that it goes really loud when it first starts?

[Uglybob]

it went really loud when the extra bit music came on

[iSeb]

I've noticed this...

With moyles's show, its quiter on Listen again than Jo Whiley, becuase somtimes I will listen to jo's show stright after moyles's.. you can really hear a difference...

I wounder why...

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

the whole extra bit varies loads in sound for me.

might be my ears.