Emmy wrote:Of course he is. He must be a ruddy great bloke to have taken the time to answer my questions in such detail. Thank you very much for doing that Aled. I haven't heard today's show yet, so I don't know if you mentioned it on air, but you must all have been pleased to get a good review (for once!). Many congratulations, it's well deserved.
Aled wrote:I don't know whether the Guardian DID let us know in advance - they may have, but if they did it would have been with Tamsin - our head of press. They posted the breakfast review idea on their blog on the Monday and listed who would be reviewed and on which day so it was out there on public display.
There is no right or wrong answer to the question as to whether Chris should have been told.
Knowing obviously changed the show - and that was inevitable because the show is transparent like that and Chris wears his heart on his sleave. But as Producer, and Chris' support, I'd feel uncomfortable going into a show where Chris was being judged so publicly, knowing this was happening and not tell him. If Chris had done something however minor that he probably wouldn't have wanted to do had he known it would be discussed and recorded publicly and analyzed under a microscope and he found out that the one person he could trust knew about it - I think that would have been an erosion of that trust and not something I would want.
Also, with it being public people could have quite easily tweeted / text Chris during the show and that would have been more unsettling to have learnt during rather than before and raised questions of why his support at Radio 1 didn't know about it.
richbrown wrote:Aled, do you see Radio 1 moving away from text messages as the primary way to contact the shows in the near/distant future, for say tweets or some online integration? Twitter has been getting a bigger part of the Chris Moyles Show, for better or worst so was wondering if you see a point coming where it overtakes SMS? Or do you think it'll be a long time before a transition like that is made? Are they even considered alternatives or two very different ways of communicating?
Aled wrote:
I must admit though, the idea of spending 10 - 12p to communicate with us is already feeling like old technology so I can't imagine people holding onto SMS for long if there's better ways of doing it.
(but I do love a bit of Twitter)
Aled wrote:jamiec21 wrote:I still thing visualisation on the breakfast show is an incredibly hard thing to get decent viewing figures for, simply because a peak time when these events are happening, the majority of the audience are commuting to work, getting ready or even asleep. This is made tougher with live streaming through mobiles or TV - it's all the harder to get people tuning in.
I completely agree - which is why every now and then when I walk past influential member of our interactive team I say 'how long before we can stream to phones?' and they 'it's on it's way'.
Fingers crossed it's before the end of this year. That's when the numbers get proper silly and it becomes truly interactive.
neilt0 wrote:
Click, look, be happy.
Nicola_Red wrote:I dunno, first people asking Aled to read their private messages, now birthday requests! We're not at a pantomime y'know
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