BBC Berkshire's online coverage

[BBC Radio Berkshire]

Hi all,

My name's Ollie - I'll be looking after online coverage of the Royals on http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire this season.

We've got plenty of ideas for the season ahead but I'd love to hear any suggestions for ways we could improve or new features you'd like to see.

We already offer:
- Read or listen again to post-match interviews
- Match reports from BBC Sport
- Photo galleries of special events (eg being crowned champions)
- All the latest Reading news from ourselves and BBC Sport
- Reading FC Fantasy Football competition (score prediction)

What we CAN'T do is offer live online commentary. We don't own the rights to broadcast this over the internet - it's the same for every local BBC radio station, not just us.

Let me know what else you think we could do, what we're already doing well and need to keep doing, and what we can do better. Either pop a reply in this thread or you can email me direct.

Many thanks!

Ollie Williams oliver.williams@bbc.co.uk

(And yes, I've nicked Joel's log-in...)

[bobby1413]

Hi all,

My name's Ollie - I'll be looking after online coverage of the Royals on http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire this season.

We've got plenty of ideas for the season ahead but I'd love to hear any suggestions for ways we could improve or new features you'd like to see.

We already offer:
- Read or listen again to post-match interviews
- Match reports from BBC Sport
- Photo galleries of special events (eg being crowned champions)
- All the latest Reading news from ourselves and BBC Sport
- Reading FC Fantasy Football competition (score prediction)

What we CAN'T do is offer live online commentary. We don't own the rights to broadcast this over the internet - it's the same for every local BBC radio station, not just us.

Let me know what else you think we could do, what we're already doing well and need to keep doing, and what we can do better. Either pop a reply in this thread or you can email me direct.

Many thanks!

Ollie Williams oliver.williams@bbc.co.uk

(And yes, I've nicked Joel's log-in...)

Maybe:

- do a little highlight on a particular match from the past. Say users could post their most memorable match and why, when it was, etc... You could then publish one of their stories per week.

- I'd love to see some more focus on the fans. Match reports could include fans comments on the game, their outlook on it, what needs to change, etc...

- Also maybe focus on one particular fan too, with a little profile of them. name, location, years suppoorting club, first game, favourite game, most memorable occassion, favourite player of all time.

Most of what I've suggested would bring more a more interactive-feel to the site. I think that's the difference, rather than just info, give fans the chance to be heard. That is what BBC Berkshire is already the best at!

[fozzy]

Hi all,

We've got plenty of ideas for the season ahead but I'd love to hear any suggestions for ways we could improve or new features you'd like to see.

We already offer:
- Match reports from BBC Sport
- Photo galleries of special events (eg being crowned champions)

I for one will be REALLY impressed if you can offer THAT this season!

[Royal With Cheese]

Would it be possible to offer us podcasts of the commentary of the match say a day afterwards?

[Royal Rother]

A review of the week on Hobnob.

[zac naloen]

Would it be possible to offer us podcasts of the commentary of the match say a day afterwards?

I concur on this one, i cannot always listen to the match on match day. And highlights usually just don't cut it. A full podcast of the match the following day would be awesome. Or even the entire afternoon coverage including pre and post match.

[Scrappy]

Or even just a Royals Podcast which can be played on any MP3 player with interviews, commentaries, gossip, punditry. Something to download on a Thursday evening and listen to on the bus to work on Friday morning.

[Stranded]

Would there be much take up of a podcast of commentary? Can't see many people wanting to listen to radio commentary of a game they already know the result of and would have probably seen highlights of on Match of the Day/Sky.

Anyway, how about a "Day in the Life" series following different people at the club - from JM down to the ticket office?

[bakerlou]

Hi all,

My name's Ollie - I'll be looking after online coverage of the Royals on http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire this season.

We've got plenty of ideas for the season ahead but I'd love to hear any suggestions for ways we could improve or new features you'd like to see.

We already offer:
- Read or listen again to post-match interviews
- Match reports from BBC Sport
- Photo galleries of special events (eg being crowned champions)
- All the latest Reading news from ourselves and BBC Sport
- Reading FC Fantasy Football competition (score prediction)

What we CAN'T do is offer live online commentary. We don't own the rights to broadcast this over the internet - it's the same for every local BBC radio station, not just us.

Let me know what else you think we could do, what we're already doing well and need to keep doing, and what we can do better. Either pop a reply in this thread or you can email me direct.

Many thanks!

Ollie Williams oliver.williams@bbc.co.uk

(And yes, I've nicked Joel's log-in...)

Quiz Competitions - the master brain competition was good on a Friday evening, it'd be good to see that continue and complemented by an online thing of some sort.

[TFF]

Anyway, how about a "Day in the Life" series following different people at the club - from JM down to the ticket office?

Beat me to it. Would be interesting to feature folks 'behind the scenes'.

[WestCoast Life]

Or even just a Royals Podcast which can be played on any MP3 player with interviews, commentaries, gossip, punditry. Something to download on a Thursday evening and listen to on the bus to work on Friday morning.

Yeah - the Royals Footy Phone-In and Greame Murty's spot on Monday morning's Andrew Peach show as 2 separate Podcasts would be really good as I often miss both due to work. RealAudio is no good as that needs to be streamed with a PC.

[Royalshow]

Or even just a Royals Podcast which can be played on any MP3 player with interviews, commentaries, gossip, punditry. Something to download on a Thursday evening and listen to on the bus to work on Friday morning.

Yeah - the Royals Footy Phone-In and Greame Murty's spot on Monday morning's Andrew Peach show as 2 separate Podcasts would be really good as I often miss both due to work. RealAudio is no good as that needs to be streamed with a PC.

Agreed that would be very useful as often miss these shows

[Skin]

Whats the score with DAB radio. Broadcasts live commentary on there but do you need to live within the normal broadcast region to pick it up, or can someone in Wales for example pick it up on their DAB?

[Big Ern]

(And yes, I've nicked Joel's log-in...)

Why should we trust you? You've already admitted you are a thief

[Slinky]

Hi all,

My name's Ollie - I'll be looking after online coverage of the Royals on http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire this season.

We've got plenty of ideas for the season ahead but I'd love to hear any suggestions for ways we could improve or new features you'd like to see.

We already offer:
- Read or listen again to post-match interviews
- Match reports from BBC Sport
- Photo galleries of special events (eg being crowned champions)
- All the latest Reading news from ourselves and BBC Sport
- Reading FC Fantasy Football competition (score prediction)

What we CAN'T do is offer live online commentary. We don't own the rights to broadcast this over the internet - it's the same for every local BBC radio station, not just us.

Let me know what else you think we could do, what we're already doing well and need to keep doing, and what we can do better. Either pop a reply in this thread or you can email me direct.

Many thanks!

Ollie Williams oliver.williams@bbc.co.uk

(And yes, I've nicked Joel's log-in...)

If you can't offer online commentary - what's the chances of you guys offering live text commentary, with views and witty comments along the lines of the main BBC site with regard to major cricket / football matches??

[Slinky]

Would it be possible to offer us podcasts of the commentary of the match say a day afterwards?

i like this idea but wouldn't want the whole match on a podcast just the highlights, as i don't have a spare 90mins to listen to the match again especially if we play 2 or 3 games in a week!

[Dirk Gently]

Won't the BBC 5-Live site do live text commentary anyway - I thought they did to all Premier league matches?

[Stranded]

Won't the BBC 5-Live site do live text commentary anyway - I thought they did to all Premier league matches?

BBC has live text commentary on all games - certainly Prem/Championsip at least. It's not particularly amusing in the same way as the cricket commentary but is there.

[playoffs or layoffs]

Whats the score with DAB radio. Broadcasts live commentary on there but do you need to live within the normal broadcast region to pick it up, or can someone in Wales for example pick it up on their DAB?

For local radio, it is only broadcast from a local DAB compatible transmitter, so you cannot pick up BBCRB from outside the area.

What I don't know is what the coverage area is compared to FM, it may be better, it may be worse.

HTH

[Forbury Lion]

Surely by the time it's been typed out and submitted it isn't live anymore?

Perhaps direct links to the 5-Live text commentary (mentioned previously) for Reading games.

A Mad Stad webcam would be good.