The new Radio 3 site launched yesterday and it represents the culmination of about 6 months work, which has been some of the more exciting and challenging I've had the opportunity to take part in.
The main benefits from the work are that Radio 3 now has a single persistent page for every episode of every programme they broadcast, these are uniquely identified and grouped by programme. The schedules are also persistent, which allow you to check what it was that you heard earlier in the week. The schedules are linked to the programme episode pages, so that the permenant broadcast history of the channel is being created on the site.
Now that every programme is represented at a basic level, including programmes like the Early Music Show, which have never had a web presence, the Radio 3 team can easily embellish the web presence for any programme. It is also better structured and more easily searchable. Further thoughts on the new site from Tom Coates.
Working on this project with Radio and Music has been great fun, made more so by having great collegues to work with, Tom, Margaret, Zillah, Tim, Rija, Mike, MattB, Ian, Manjit, Paul, PaulF, DanH and the Radio 3 team, plus Tony and Jason in NM&T. Working with Tom and Mags in particular has been one of the most enjoyable times in my working life -- thanks each and everyone of you.
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Looks fantastic! Hard work paid off. Thanks for pointing me to the plasticbag analysis as well - full explanation more interesting than I'd like to admit in public...
Looks great! Well done.... you see you never know who will turn up on your site!
Talk soon.