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The Blue Room at The Consumer Electronics Show

2013-01-22T10:54:27Z

Hi, my name is Richard and I'm a technologist working in the 91�� .

It's my job to highlight immediate consumer technology trends and game changing media consumption devices and to bring them to the attention of our editorial, technical and management teams.

In the Blue Room we often find the strongest way to convey the importance and impact of new electronic equipment and content services is to put them in the hands of our colleagues and allow them to discover the potential for themselves.

Ultra High Definition TV screens at The International Consumer Electronics Show 2013

The Blue Room is our den of devices where colleagues can touch, test and trial new consumer cameras, emerging displays, fresh forms of digital content and connected experiences across mobile, tablet, PC and televisions.

One of the biggest events in the technology calendar is the . It features 20,000 product launches, more than 150,000 attendees and over 3,250 exhibitors.

With the exception of Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft nearly every technology company from start-up to the multi-billion dollar global brand have a presence in Las Vegas in January.

My fellow Blue Roomer, Lindsey Suter and I were there too.

]]> Attending the show served three core knowledge gaining purposes for the Blue Room. It allows us to select interesting and exciting products to showcase, make contact with developers and engineers who make them and to pick-up on overarching themes and trends that show provides.

, bizarre ,' ' and made headlines.

We'd like share some of our findings about the next generation of televisions and the potential for new content with you so we've produced our (Link to PDF).

If you have any comments or would like to suggest any exciting consumer technology products that you think the 91�� should be across please use the comments section below or tweet us .

Richard Robbins is a senior technologist at the 91��.

What's on 91�� Red Button 19-25 January

2013-01-19T06:00:00Z

We're busy on the Red Button this week preparing to host a maelstrom of great music for your viewing pleasure. It's an eclectic offering - from stadium rockers Bon Jovi to Asian Network collaboration with the 91�� Philharmonic to the very best of Northern Ireland's music scene. Add to this insider exclusives from eccentric new comedy Blandings and firm favourite Miranda and we hope you'll agree it's a great week to stay on red!

Here's a look at what's in store - and if you want to stay updated throughout the week, why not or visit .

Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi play live for 91�� Radio 2

Bon Jovi fans listen up - we've got a real treat in store this week as we bring you the band in concert from the intimate 91�� Radio Theatre. Watch on your Red Button as they play some of their stadium-filling hits as well as an early taster of their new material.

]]> Thu 24 Jan, 8pm-9.30pm
Fri 25 Jan, 9am-10am
Fri 25 Jan, 7pm-6am

Sons and Daughters Concert

Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody will perform at the Sons and Daughters concert

Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle, Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody and The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon perform in the opening concert for the Derry-Londonderry City of Culture 2013. Press your red button for the concert featuring 'sons and daughters' from stage and screen reflecting on the city's cultural achievements through music, word and song.

Sun 20 Jan, 7.55pm-11pm

Blandings

The characters from Blandings - take a tour inside the castle

Want to take a closer look at the castle and characters in 91�� One's new Sunday-night comedy? Join us as Beach gives a guided tour of Blandings Castle and its ancestral history - watch out for encounters with some of the present residents including the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prize sow.

Sun 20 Jan, 6.55pm-7.55pm
Sun 20 Jan, 11pm-12am
Mon 21 Jan, 11.30pm-12.30am

Miranda

Get closer to Miranda with this sneak peek into Monday's episode plus it's your chance to hear the cast share some exclusive backstage gossip.

Mon 21 Jan, 8.25pm-9pm

Queens of Melody

The 91�� Philharmonic and Asian Network collaborate for the first time to celebrate the life and songs of iconic Pakistani singer Noor Jehan and other legendary divas. Join us as international artists like Shazia Manzoor and Quratulain Balouch perform alongside the orchestra, conducted by David Heath.

Mon 21 Jan, 6am-10am; 12pm-8.25pm; 9pm-11.30pm
Tue 22 Jan, 12.30am-7am; 9am-10am; 12pm-6am
Wed 23 Jan, 6am-7am; 9am-10am; 12pm-9.55pm
Thu 24 Jan, 4am-7am; 9am-10am; 9.30pm-6am
Fri 25 Jan, 6am-7am

In It To Win It Play-Along Quiz

Dale Winton's In It To Win It, the game show where people use their general knowledge to win a big-money jackpot, is back. Think you can do better than the studio contestants? Every Saturday press the Red Button during the show to pit your wits against our studio contestants.

Only available on Sky/Freeview:

Sat 19 Jan, 8pm-8.50pm

91�� Sport

Catch up on all the latest Sport here on the Red Button.

Highlights this week include:

Live: World Indoor Bowls Championships

Skiing: Men's Slalom from Wengen, Switzerland

Ski Sunday Extra

For the latest information refer to the .

**Note all Red Button times are subject to change at short notice

Have your say on 91�� Online and 91�� Red Button

A final reminder about your chance to tell us your views on 91�� Online and Red Button services before the review finishes on 23 January.

The 91�� Trust carries out an in-depth review of each of the 91��'s services at least once every five years. This time the Trust is looking at 91�� Online and 91�� Red Button Services.

The Trust wants your views and suggestions on these services and how they can be improved. There is also space in the consultation to raise any other points not covered by our questions. The consultation closes this Wednesday.

To find out more about the consultation and how to take part, visit the 91�� Trust site:

If you would like a paper version sent to you, email onlineandredbutton@bbc.co.uk or call 0800 0680 116.

To request the questions in audio or braille please call 0800 0680 116 or textphone 0800 0153 350.

Large print is also available to download via the 91�� Trust site:

CBeebies Red Button

CBeebies Red Button welcomes younger viewers and grown-ups with a sense of adventure to the big, bright and fun world of CBeebies interactive!

Your children's favourite characters are at the heart of the interactive TV experience. Satellite and digital terrestrial viewers will have slightly different offerings from one another. This has enabled the Red Button team to offer the best games tailored to each system.

CBeebies Red Button is available on the CBeebies channel.

Visit the to find out more.

Available on Freeview and Sky only

External Supply Review

2013-01-18T12:30:20Z

I'm Richard Smith and I look after feedback and public accountability for 91�� Online (including managing the small team who produce this blog and plan and deliver our .)

Part of my role involves working with 91�� commissioners and external suppliers to facilitate the working relationship between 91�� Online and the UK's digital industry, whether these are big players or start-ups.

91�� Online is subject to a quota which ensures that we spend at least 25% of our eligible budget with external suppliers, with the aim of creating the highest quality service and the best possible value for money.

In 2011 the asked us to report back with answers to six key questions relating to what our quota aims to achieve and how we work with the digital industry.

]]> Today we're publishing . These findings and our recommendations are based on research carried out on our behalf by independent analysts , and today we are also publishing their (with some redactions where required for commercial confidentiality).

I'm pleased to say that the Trust have accepted our findings and recommendations. As a result we will be retaining the existing supply arrangements for at least two more years.

They've also asked to us to look at ways we can make further improvements in how we commission and work with external suppliers and to regularly review and report performance against our stated objectives.

Later this year we'll be publishing our 2012/13 Out-turn report for 91�� Online which will have further details about how we have fulfilled the quota this year. (Out-turn reports for previous years are available on our )

If you are a digital business who work with 91�� Online and have any questions about the reports I'm happy to try and answer any queries - so please do leave a comment.

Richard Smith is head of public accountability, 91�� Online and Red Button.

US Elections: Mobile design on 91�� News

2013-01-18T10:10:46Z

Recently I had the pleasure of working on on the , a subject I'm especially passionate about as an American living in London.

My team produces a huge range of infographics that accompany our daily online news stories and we also do the for larger stories such as this.

Four years ago I followed the elections closely on the 91�� and getting the chance to design for them this time around has been incredible.

US Elections on mobile

A lot of people worked very hard on this project but the team's greatest achievement (though there are many I'm proud of) has to be our mobile design success.

The design brief for the 'news story that brings the web to its knees'

The design challenge was to create an engaging and informative experience for the US Election results that would work across all mobile, tablet and desktop platforms and be consistent with TV.

The main focus of this was showing national and state-by-state presidential and congressional votes in an easy to understand yet visually exciting way.

US Elections has been described as "the news story that brings the web to its knees". It's a big worldwide story that only happens once every four years which means technology has moved on sufficiently enough that the last version can't just be dusted off and reused.

For this election there was no question that we had to create a great experience on our mobile site.

From the beginning of the creative process mobile was on the agenda and by presenting mobile designs at every team catch up we were able to make sure it never became an afterthought.

]]> Designing mobile first is hugely beneficial, not just because it means there will be a mobile solution but also because it means the content has to have a clear hierarchy and progressively enhance.

Designing responsive mobile results pages

This approach not only fits into the development (as the screen enlarges more content is added thus the smallest devices get the lightest pages) but it also fits into people's mental models.

People expect a streamlined view on the mobile which is often relying on a data connection, with a more in-depth solution on their desktops which have greater screen real estate and usually a better connection.

The page that required the most design effort was the results page. There was a long list of requirements from detailed state results to congressional overviews.

I started by creating a post-it note board of everything the page must, should and could do and then began wireframing the modules.

Helene wireframes the results page

We initially experimented with versions of the results page that didn't have a map but we found it was a reference people were so accustomed to that we couldn't drop it.

The map is tricky because the size of a state often is not representative of how many votes it has. Montana is massive yet only has three votes so a map can be dominated by a party colour when actually the opponent won.

I decided to introduce a bar to the top of the page to give a more accurate snapshot of the election score.

As we moved forward we realized we wanted US Elections to have a singular home.

Previously the index, results and live updates page have all been separate pages. By tabbing all the content under the 'scoreboard' banner we were able to ensure users wouldn't miss all that was on offer, or they could choose to quickly check the latest tally if they just wanted an overview.

This score snapshot above in-depth tabs was especially effective on mobile.

State icons

I also wanted to give the site a bit of character so along with designer Nina Monet we gave each and every state an icon. These were things that the state was famous for and although only a small detail on the page it was fun to read people's about them. [N.B links to external site with strong language]

Taking the designs worldwide

As this story is of interest worldwide we worked closely with World Service. Designers Nour Saab and Charlotte Thornton adapted our designs for over 20 languages.

face difficult challenges. For example words in Russian are often much longer and don't fit the spacing allocated for the English words and Arabic reads right to left so the whole page has to be flipped.

Charlotte spent many days sitting with the developer - the ideal way to work I believe - making sure the design and development were aligned.

The results page in Arabic

Final thoughts

The benefit of this project was that regardless of the user's device or language there was a consistent US Elections home with a 'scoreboard' overview above the tabbed index, results and live page.

Although not fully responsive it's close. The mobile site has a clear relationship with the desktop. We had 16 million unique visitors to the site of which 30% were on mobile proving our mobile first approach was worthwhile.

This project had the support of the Visual Journalism team and I'd like to send a big thank you to everyone who helped make it a reality. It would be great to hear what you thought of the site.

is the editorial designer for UX&D.

Knowledge & Learning's Connected Studio brief

2013-01-17T10:20:14Z

Hi I'm , executive product manager for Knowledge & Learning at the 91��.

(K&L) is a new product in the 91�� Online portfolio.

When complete, it will exist as a standalone property while also connecting related content across the other nine 91�� products. It will pull together over 100 existing 91�� websites from to to to and bring them into a single, consistent user experience.

The vision is to channel inspiration from across the 91�� and the world around us to spark our audience's natural curiosity and establish a positive relationship with learning.

Learning journeys based on the Thames Barrier

The new product is making a promise that is firmly rooted in the 91��'s mission to Inform, Educate and Entertain. To meet this promise requires moving from the current portfolio of individual web sites to a single product with a central production system and innovative new content formats.

The content currently produced by the editorial team in K&L ranges from formal learning formats (revision guides for students, guides for adult learners, and 91�� programme clips to be used by teachers in classrooms) to topical features around arts, food, science, history and health.

We are now in the process of redefining the way that our audiences consume that educational and factual content. We believe that technology combined with storytelling broadens horizons for our audience. We hope the new product will satisfy our audience's appetite for topical content in an experience that is optimised for learning.

Below are some of the challenges that the team faces in building its longer-term vision, and some scenarios and themes that those attending our could help us explore.

]]> If you've got an idea you'd like to pitch at the Creative Studio for K&L taking place on the 21st of February, apply .

Key opportunities: audience and product

The Knowledge & Learning audience is large, diverse and ever-changing. We cater for school-aged children revising for their exams, empty nesters seeking more information about the birds in their hedgerows and almost everyone in between.

But one constant is that our audiences are all in some way open to learning. Finding ever more inventive ways to pique our audience's natural curiosity is the K&L product's principal challenge.

At this stage in development we're searching for innovative content formats, tools and user experiences. The challenges we have set out here provide a chance to contribute to fundamental elements of the future K&L product.

1. A K&L interactive video player

We have content around a large range of topics, places, people, events and fields of study. We now have the technology (as seen in the Olympics) to combine video and data to deliver statistical overlays, chapterised content and social elements to the video experience.

How should we design a player for people to consume our video content in the way that best sparks their curiosity and allows them to follow where it leads them?

We need to cater for a range of needs, from searching for a specific answer to allowing people to follow interesting links and relationships between topics.

How could this player offer a unique learning experience that is as immersive as it is useful? This is different to a second-screen experience - what we want to explore are ways to deliver a more immersive first-screen experience.

Content based on topical news stories

2. Doing, not just viewing

People learn better by doing and we would like the K&L product to include an opportunity for playful "practice" - activities designed to reinforce learning without feeling onerous.

How do we bring a level of interaction to our audiences that would mean their experience is more enjoyable, their learning is better absorbed and their curiosity is better sparked in order to continue learning more?

An interactive guide format with modular and 'stackable' content forms the building blocks of the new K&L Product. Each piece we create will be a single unit, the smallest unit of knowledge appropriate for a single step in a learning journey. Each unit will be consumed or completed in three to four minutes, is viewable on any device and is heavily wrapped in metadata so that it can easily be connected to any other unit of knowledge content.

We don't have the time or resource to 'reinvent the wheel' for each guide so it's important these interactive elements are designed to scale across the broad range of K&L topics and audiences. How can we create reusable patterns of interactivity to reduce the time it takes us to create activities?

3. Connecting the TV experience with K&L

A large proportion of our audience watch or listen to factual content without benefiting from the wealth of related content online. We know our audience are open to learning but don't want to be distracted from the content they are already enjoying.

How might people signal to us that they are interested in learning more during a broadcast of TV or radio content? How do we help them follow their curiosity without interrupting the original content?

4. Connecting the real world with Knowledge & Learning

More and more, people expect to see what they do in the real world reflected in their online world and vice versa.

How can our audiences easily track digitally what they do in the real world (e.g. trips to a museum, real world activities, baking a cake, helping friends revise, etc), and then use that information to enrich their learning experience? What will they see when they go to 91�� spaces online which represent the real world? And, how might these digital spaces change the way they experience real world events?

I will be at the Knowledge & Learning Connected Studio with the K&L team. We are very excited to see what ideas come from the community of designers, technologists and storytellers and look forward to seeing some of you in February.

Andy Pipes is executive product manager for 91�� Knowledge & Learning.

N.B. The images used in this post are early concept designs only and not finished products.

What's on 91�� Red Button 12 - 19 January

2013-01-12T06:00:00Z

Here's a breakdown of what we've got on the Red Button this week. To stay updated on everything Red Button or visit .

Winterwatch

Mountain Hare camouflaged against the winter snow

The webcams return, live from Aigas in the Scottish Highlands where the team hope to be following the beavers and pine martens again, as well as some new species.

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Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Mon 14 Jan, 11pm-10am, Tues 15 Jan
Tues 15 Jan, 11pm-10am, Wed 16 Jan
Wed 16 Jan, 11pm-10am, Thu 17 Jan

Antiques Roadshow Play-Along Game

Fiona Bruce at Cawdor Castle

Fiona Bruce and the team head to the north of Scotland for a busy day in the grounds of Cawdor Castle near Inverness. Objects under scrutiny include original artwork given in payment for hairdresser's bills, the best bargain-buy dolls ever seen on the show, and an early 18th-Century travelling chest that may once have been owned by Queen Anne.

You can now also play along on a mobile or tablet. and read the and don't forget to tweet your scores to .

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sun 13 Jan, 7:55pm-9pm

EastEnders - Dorothy Branning: The Next Chapter

What's up with Dot?

Why has Dot Branning stayed away from Walford for so long? Why won't she come home? We're about to find out when leaves the East End on a mission to seek out her .

This epiosde is also to watch anytime for seven days.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sun 13 Jan, 12:45pm-4:45pm

Casualty - The Crash

Matt Bardock as Jeff Collier

A repeat of the mini-episode for fans to enjoy as one of Holby's most hard-bitten characters gets a rude awakening. thinks he's seen everything the job can throw at him and there's nothing left to shock him. But nothing can prepare him for what he sees when he arrives at the scene of a school coach crash...

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 12 Jan, 9:35pm-1:15am

In It To Win It Play-Along Quiz

Dale Winton returns with another series of , the game show where people compete on general knowledge for a big money jackpot. Think you can do better? Every Saturday press the Red Button during the show to pit your wits against our studio contestants. Come the final round will you still be In It To Win It?

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sat 12 Jan, 8pm-8:50pm
Sat 19 Jan, 8pm-8:50pm

91�� Sport

Catch up on all the latest Sport here on the Red Button.

Highlights include:

Live Darts: BDO World Championships
Live Masters Snooker (and highlights)
Ski Sunday and Ski Sunday Extra

For the latest information refer to the .

**Note all Red Button times are subject to change at short notice

Have your say on 91�� Online and 91�� Red Button

To find out more about the consultation and how to take part, visit the 91�� Trust site:

If you would like a paper version sent to you, email onlineandredbutton@bbc.co.uk or call 0800 0680 116.

To request the questions in audio or braille please call 0800 0680 116 or textphone 0800 0153 350.

Large print is also available to download via the 91�� Trust site:

CBeebies Red Button

CBeebies Red Button welcomes younger viewers and grown-ups with a sense of adventure to the big, bright and fun world of CBeebies interactive!

CBeebies Red Button is available on the CBeebies channel, and via page 5900 on other channels.

Visit the to find out more.

Available on Freeview and Sky only

News Connected Studio

2013-01-08T14:15:34Z

Hi I am the head of product for and lead the product strategy and development of website, mobile, tablet and IPTV products for News.

The change of year is a good time to look back and also forward. In the 91�� News Online product team in recent weeks we have been reflecting on a year in which we delivered a number of innovative product features to the audience while also planning an exciting event to kick off 2013: our first Connected Studio for News which begins on January 21.

Pages from 91�� News Online

With the delivery of our brand new , our coverage of events such as the and the , 2012 was a huge success in News for what we call our 'Four Screen strategy'.

In the UK alone we saw a 28% increase in weekly unique browsers to our websites and applications, the number of tablets accessing our product more than trebled following a massive increase during Christmas week and there has been a 50% increase via smartphones.

Considering that one-third of our users are now not using a desktop PC it is essential that we continue to deliver great experiences across all devices from phones to connected TVs - not only in 2013 but beyond.

This is where comes in.

]]> One thing that is clear to us from talking to the audience and seeing the trends in how people consume news is that in an age of an endless flow of information with access to the news from all the different devices we carry around with us, people increasingly want to more easily find news that is more relevant to them.

It's not that people don't want to see the big major stories that affect us all and the 91�� is committed to ensuring it uses its skills to ensure the world is well informed about the things that really matter to the broadest audience.

However, people are increasingly interested in lots of different topics which affect their own personal daily lives and we think we can do a better job in the future allowing you to follow stories that interest you across multiple devices.

So this is the focus of our Connected Studio initiative - discovering ways to consume and distribute news that is more relevant to people. That might be news about where you live or where you work or what happens on the commute between the two places. Or it might be news about the industry you work in, or something that directly affects friends and family. Or just news about your hobbies and what interests you.

We have a great opportunity to build on the systems and products in 2012 and use to describe our content and make it easier to find.

Our journalists are starting to tag stories accurately for the location, people, companies and organisations that they are about and then by linking this data together we will be able to make it possible for you to find and follow the news that affects you.

Where our current only offer a limited view of the world in those areas, in future we will be able to surface stories about companies who employ lots of people in an area.

Or when an MP has said something in the House of Commons which features on we will be able to show it immediately to people in the area that he or she represents and also to all the people interested in that subject.

We also want to work with the wider media industry to link to other people's content more effectively in the same way.

The Connected Studio is an opportunity for people from outside the 91�� to meet up with experts from our teams, to play with our data and develop product ideas and prototypes which we will show to real audiences during the day.

We are hoping to hear from many people across the media and digital industry who would like to get involved and help us with this exciting challenge.

I look forward to seeing many interesting people gathering to help us on January 21 in the heart of the 91��'s new journalism headquarters at in London. A creative brief for the studio has been and you can .

is head of product for 91�� News Online.

The 91�� Sport iPhone app

2013-01-07T07:10:20Z

I'm , executive product manager for 's mobile services - including the new 91�� Sport app which was launched today.

The version of the app is now available from in the UK and the version will follow within the next few weeks.

The main features of the 91�� Sport app are explained by the head of Sport Interactive over on the .

The new 91�� Sport app

To support the amazing summer of sport in 2012 we focused on delivering a great mobile experience for big events including creating the which almost two million people in the UK downloaded.

Like the Olympics app, the Sport app is a . It contains the same web-based content as the mobile sport website and adds extra features and functionality using native app technology.

The Sport app allows you to create quick links to your favourite sports using the standard native pattern for adding, removing and re-ordering. We deliberately set out to use patterns that users recognise from others apps and we'll continue to do this in the other native features we'll add to the app over the next year or so.

]]> The Android version still needs some more development work and testing to ensure it works on the wide range of Android devices available and will be live in the next few weeks.

You may notice that some of the links in the app such as the football team pages, stats for other sports and other sport indexes open the old 91�� Sport mobile site. The next phase of the app project will update these pages and add this content fully to the app and add football teams to the quick link options.

These updates will be released in the next couple of months. The tutorial screen shown when the app is first downloaded helps explain its key features. This tutorial is always available for reference in the app's Other menu. When updates to the app containing new features are available we'll update the tutorial so that it's clear what is new.

In order to see this content you need to have both enabled and installed. Visit for full instructions

Watch the 91�� Sport app tutorial

We learned a huge amount from developing, designing and testing the Olympic app and that has helped us hugely while developing the Sport app.

For example we know some Android users were disappointed that the Olympics app wasn't available on larger Android phones and smaller tablets. One of the benefits of building the app around a was that it was much easier to build an app that scales to serve larger devices.

As a result the sport app will be available for Android devices with a screen width of seven inches or smaller. We'll also roll it out to the family too once we've thoroughly tested the app on these devices.

We'll also be adding video to both the iPhone and Android versions of the app in the coming months. The 91��'s solution for delivering video to Android devices was recently outlined in a by my colleagues Chris Yanda.

We are developing the app for Apple and Android devices which currently account for . We haven't ruled out developing the app for other platforms but building apps is expensive and as a publicly-funded organisation we have to prioritise the areas where we can reach the most users at the lowest costs.

Users with tablets and other mobile devices will be able to access both the mobile and desktop versions of the 91�� Sport website and we will continue to use feedback and usage data to help us prioritise future features and versions.

Over the coming weeks there will be further posts on this blog by key people in the technical and design teams about how they built the app for iPhone and Android devices. Until then we hope you enjoy using this first release of the Sport app and we're keen to hear what other features you'd find useful in future updates.

The 91�� Sport app is available for iPhones and devices on iOS 5.0 in the UK.

Search for '91�� Sport' in the .

Lucie Mclean is the executive product manager for 91�� Sport, Future Media.

What's on 91�� Red Button 5th - 12th January

2013-01-05T06:00:00Z

It's a new year and we've got lots of great red button content to keep you entertained throughout 2013.

For drama fans we have EastEnders and Casualty specials coming up this week plus a visit to the C91�� drama Dumping Ground where you can take part in a quiz and watch some extras too.

There's a showcase of the musical talent predicted to make waves in 2013 and the return of the ever popular Antiques Roadshow play along quiz where you guess the value of antique items - can you beat the team of experts?

Add to that a bit of Miranda and a lot of sport and you'll agree that we've got a great start to the new year on red button.

Here's a look at what's in store - and if you want to stay updated on Red Button, be sure to or visit www.bbc.co.uk/redbutton

EastEnders - Dorothy Branning: The Next Chapter

What's up with Dot?

Why has Dot Branning stayed away from Walford for so long? Why won't she come home? We're about to find out when leaves the East End on a mission to seek out her .

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Fri 11th January, 8:25pm-9:10pm
Fri 11th January, 9:45pm-11:30pm
Sun 13th January, 12:45pm-4:45pm

]]> Sound of 2013

Who's tipped for the top in 2013

Discover which bands and musicians who have been tipped as by tuning into the 91�� Red Button. will reveal the top five acts and the longer top list of 15, all nominated by music critics, editors, broadcasters and bloggers. Huw is also joined by Radio 1's , , and 1Xtra's to tell us why we should love these new artists. Find out more now at www.bbc.co.uk/soundof2013

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 5th January, 6:00am-11:00am, 7:00pm-8:25pm, 9:00pm-10:00pm
Sun 6th January, 4:00am-7:00am, 5:00pm-5:30pm, 6:30pm-7:55pm and 9:05pm until
Mon 7th January, 7:00am, 7:00pm-8:25pm, 9:00pm until
Tue 8th January, 7:00am, 7:30pm until
Wed 9th January, 7:00am, 7:30pm until
Thu 10th January, 7:00am, 7:00pm until
Fri 11th January, 7:00am, 7:00pm-8:25pm, 11:30pm-4:00am

Miranda

L-R Sally Phillips, Tom Ellis, Miranda Hart, Sarah Hadland and Patricia Hodge

Take a glimpse into the world of and get a sneak peak of tonight's episode plus a chance for you to hear the cast share secrets and tell tales of what really happens on the set.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Mon 7th January, 8:25pm-9:00pm

Casualty - Gone in Sixty Seconds

Matt Bardock as Jeff Collier

There's a brand new mini-episode for Casualty fans to enjoy as one of Holby's most hard-bitten characters gets a rude awakening.

thinks he's seen everything the job can throw at him and there's nothing left to shock him. But nothing can prepare him for what he sees when he arrives at the scene of a school coach crash...

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 5th January, 22:00pm-04:00am
Sat 12th January, 22:00pm-04:00am

Antiques Roadshow Play-Along Game

Fiona Bruce and the team travel to the newly restored Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, once one of the grandest houses in the country. Experts uncover treasures amongst the family heirlooms, including a sixteenth century print that could be worth tens of thousands of pounds, evidence of one of the earliest Beatles concerts arranged by a school boy, plus there's a big surprise for one of the team as he is shown a rare piece of furniture made by an important artist.

You can now also play along on a mobile or tablet, and read the and don't forget to tweet your scores to #antiquesroadshow.

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sun 6th January, 7:55pm-9:05pm

The Dumping Ground Quiz

If you have been enjoying C91��'s drama then you are going to love The Dumping Ground Quiz hosted by Tyler and Carmen. There are 11 questions about previous Tracy Beaker series to test your knowledge. You simply answer by pressing the coloured buttons on your remote control. So press red and get involved!

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sat 5th January, 11:00am-2:30pm
Sun 6th January, 7:00am-5:00pm
Mon 7th January, 7:00am-7:00pm
Tue 8th January, 7:00am-7:30pm

The Dumping Ground Extra

If you want more fun, The Dumping Ground Extra is jam packed with a whole host of exclusive goodies from C91��'s brand new drama. Press Red on the C91�� Channel and see what happened when Dodge went behind the scenes on the show, join Iain and Dodge for some silly sketches, there's exclusive character profiles and check out a sneak peek from the next dramatic episode in the series. As always you can also read Chris and Dodge's blog, check out the answers to some of your questions, read your horoscopes and see if the jokes that made Chris and Dodge LOL will have the same effect on you. Go on, press red... You know you want to!

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Wed 9th January, 7:00am-7:30pm
Thu 10th January, 7:00am-7:00pm
Fri 11th January, 7:00am-11:00am, 1:00pm-7:00pm

Imagine

Alan Yentob meets China's Lang Lang

Following on there's another chance to see the pianist in concert from the Latitude Festival in Southwold, Carnegie Hall in New York and the Royal Albert Hall in London. Previously shown as part of

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:
Fri 11th January, 9:10pm-9:45pm

In It To Win It Play-Along Quiz

Dale Winton returns with another series of In It To Win It, the game show where people compete on general knowledge for a big money jackpot.

Think you can do better? Every Saturday press the Red Button during the show to pit your wits against our studio contestants. Come the final round will you still be In It To Win It?

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sat 5th January, 8:00pm-8:50pm
Sat 12th January, 8:00pm-8:50pm

91�� Sport

Catch up on all the latest Sport here on the Red Button.

Highlights of the festive fortnight include:

Follow the live athletics from the Great Edinburgh Cross Country

Final Score keeps you up to date on all the latest goals from across the country

Live darts from the BDO World Championships

For the latest information refer to the .

**Note all Red Button times are subject to change at short notice

Have your say on 91�� Online and 91�� Red Button

To find out more about the consultation and how to take part, visit the 91�� Trust site:

If you would like a paper version sent to you, email onlineandredbutton@bbc.co.uk or call 0800 0680 116.

To request the questions in audio or braille please call 0800 0680 116 or textphone 0800 0153 350.

Large print is also available to download via the 91�� Trust site:

CBeebies Red Button

CBeebies Red Button welcomes younger viewers and grown-ups with a sense of adventure to the big, bright and fun world of CBeebies interactive!

CBeebies Red Button is available on the CBeebies channel, and via page 5900 on other channels.

Visit the to find out more.

Available on Freeview and Sky only

If you'd like to stay up-to-date with more news from the Red Button .

New Antiques Roadshow play-along app

2013-01-03T09:45:09Z

I'm Tom Williams, development editor for Red Button and dual screen in 91�� Vision.

Today we launched the play along app for mobiles and tablets. It's a first for the 91�� and builds on the hugely successful we launched last October.

Play along with Antiques Roadshow from your mobile

Here's how it works: launch the app while you're watching Antiques Roadshow, press 'Play along with the programme' and choose a value for each of the objects featured.

]]> A clock tells you how long you have before the expert gives their valuation. The app keeps a running total of the objects you value correctly and gives you a ranking at the end of the programme: novice, enthusiast, connoisseur or expert.

You need to get over 75% correct to get to expert level and believe me that's quite a challenge. At the end of the quiz we'll link you to more information on the top finds of the episode you've just watched and from the series so far.

Why Antiques Roadshow?

As development editor my priority was to create a companion experience that would genuinely enhance a programme for a mainstream audience.

We piloted a number of titles but Antiques Roadshow stood out. As soon as we tested the first prototype of the app with audiences we saw what a buzz it created in the living room.

The interface is simple enough not to distract from the programme and the interaction builds on existing behaviour - who doesn't shout out what they think an item's worth?

Antiques Roadshow is a key title for 91�� One regularly pulling in over six million viewers on a Sunday night.

It's now in its 35th year and Simon Shaw, the series editor, and his team are constantly seeking out new ways to keep the programme fresh while maintaining the core values that audiences love.

The new app does exactly that.

Play along with Antiques Roadshow

The app is one of 91�� Vision's portfolio of companion experiences - a strategy driven by Victoria Jaye and outlined in last year and part of the 91��'s plans announced by Daniel Danker to offer in a connected world.

Viewers love playing along

The mobile and tablet app builds on the existing Red Button offer providing a much improved interface and the ability for multiple players to play along in the same room.

So far, over have pressed red to play along and the response on Twitter has been incredibly positive. You can read some of our favourite tweets about the red button service on (N.B: includes strong language).

Simple magic

At the heart of the app is a great bit of technology that's totally invisible to our audiences - audio watermarking.

We've embedded inaudible signals in the soundtrack of the programme that are picked up by the microphone of a phone or tablet.

These are used to identify the episode, line up the correct questions and then display them at exactly the right point in the programme.

In short it provides a way of joining up your TV and mobile/tablet without having to do anything complicated. In fact it makes the whole experience feel a bit like magic.

It has the added bonus of synchronising the app with the programme however you choose to watch it, whether on 91�� One, a recording of the programme or on .

There's more information on audio watermarking and one of our early pilots in the .

Collaboration

The app was built and designed in Salford by the . It's editorially driven by the television production team in Bristol, enhanced by onward journeys into the history behind the programme's top finds from with invaluable contributions from , here in London.

It's been an amazing feat of collaboration across multiple teams considering that four-way video conferences were often the only way of linking the teams together.

An alternative career beckons?

Give it a go and let us know what you think

The Antiques Roadshow website has details on how to download the app and information on when the programmes go out on 91�� One.

If you can't wait until Sunday, you can play along now with the programme in iPlayer. Give it a go and see how you do. Are you novice, enthusiast, connoisseur or expert? We'll be keeping an eye out for the hashtag #AntiquesRoadshow if you want to let us know.

By the way, the image above shows my score last time I had a go so beat that if you can.

The app works on Android mobile devices up to 7" running firmware 2.2 & above and iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches running iOS 5.1 and above.

is development editor, Red Button and IPTV.

Christmas 2012 on 91�� iPlayer

2013-01-02T13:33:10Z

I'm head of here at the 91��.

Christmas is always a highlight of the TV calendar. If you're anything like my family, after a long Christmas dinner and a busy day unwrapping presents we gather around the telly watching the celebs on or the drama from Albert Square.

Happy 5th Birthday 91�� iPlayer

Christmas Day is also a particularly special day for my team as it's 91�� iPlayer's birthday. Five years ago we unwrapped iPlayer on the PC. Fast forward five years and it's , and now on over 650 devices and platforms ranging from TV platforms and games consoles, to mobiles and tablets. In October for the first time.

91�� iPlayer - total requests for streams and downloads, TV and Radio programmes (millions)

91�� iPlayer at Christmas

Christmas is a popular time of year for iPlayer. And with so many new gadgets given as gifts this year many of you downloaded the iPlayer app to watch and catch-up on the programmes you've missed.

]]> On Christmas Day itself most viewing is via broadcast TV with families flocking around the best screen in the house. It's the days afterwards, especially Boxing Day and New Year's Day, when requests on iPlayer really start to peak - when many of you are catching up on those essential Christmas programmes.

During the festive season last year Monday 2 January was the best day 91�� iPlayer ever had with 5.4 million TV programmes requested. This year Tuesday 1 January (New Year's Day) was the most popular for TV viewing with 6.7 million request for TV programmes.

Online requests for streams and downloads (27 Dec - 1 Jan)

Christmas 2012 on 91�� iPlayer

This year we saw 77 million requests for TV and Radio programmes throughout the festive period (22 Dec - 1 Jan, excluding Virgin Cable data which is not yet available).

Throughout this period:
• The most popular day in terms of TV programme requests was New Year's Day.
• was the most popular programme, followed by and . Other top performing programmes were , and (see table below for the top 20).

Top 20 programmes (requests rounded to nearest 1000)

91�� iPlayer - whenever and wherever you want it

As I've talked about before one of our in 2012 was to take it beyond the PC and onto a host of different devices from mobile smartphones and tablets to smart TVs and games consoles. We want to make it as easy as possible to watch and catch up on your favourite programmes.

It appears the UK was particularly generous with gifts this Christmas! We've witnessed a significant spike in users installing iPlayer on new tablets and smartphones with devices such as the Nexus 7, iPad and Kindle Fire HD proving popular.

Throughout the festive period we saw more and more viewers accessing programmes on mobiles, tablets and internet-connected TVs.

Please note: all the following data is for TV only, for a fair comparison across devices, some of which are not primarily used for radio listening.

On mobiles and tablets:
• Requests increased on Christmas Day +40% on tablets and +66% on mobiles compared with Christmas Eve. Mobile and tablet viewing requests grew even further on Boxing Day and saw another catch-up viewing peak on New Year's Day.
• During the whole festive period the iPlayer app was downloaded nearly one million times - with almost 300,000 downloads on Christmas Day alone.
• By the end of 2012 the iPlayer app had been downloaded nearly 13 million times.

Popular programmes on mobiles and tablets:
• While Doctor Who was in the top three most popular programmes for all types of device, the Christmas Day EastEnders was number one on mobiles and tablets across the festive period.
• Some comedy programmes such as Outnumbered also ranked more highly on mobiles and tablets.

But people still want to watch TV on a TV and with increasing numbers of TVs being connected to the internet iPlayer requests were also strong on these devices throughout this period.

On internet connected TVs (such as smart TVs, games consoles and TV platforms):
• These devices followed the overall pattern of viewing on PCs, since they saw stiff competition from live TV screens - dipping on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and picking up for catch-up viewing from 27 onwards. Requests from PCs saw their largest peak on New Year's Day.
• Most popular programmes were in line with the overall trend - Doctor Who, Miranda and EastEnders - with family films and comedy also very popular.

Daily online requests by device type for TV programmes (millions)

Happy New Year from 91�� iPlayer

I hope you've had a great Christmas and are looking forward to the year ahead.
We've got lots of exciting plans to make iPlayer even better and look forward to sharing them with you in the months to come.

As always, it's great to hear your feedback, so please leave a comment below. Have a great 2013.

Dave Price is the head of 91�� iPlayer, Programmes and On Demand, 91�� Future Media.

2012 on the Internet blog

2012-12-22T16:00:00Z

Hi I joined the Internet blog as the content producer in November.

There is a distinct feel of Christmas in the air in our office today and as this will be the last blog post of the year I thought it would be a good place to do a quick 2012 round up, Clive James style (without the jokes).

So here is a look at some of our most popular posts as well as some of the topics that have got our audience talking. It would be impossible to cover everything and sorry to any loyal and enthusiastic blogger who hasn't got a mention here.

First off, no one could avoid the this year (believe me I tried), including the blog. We had a great series of posts on the 91��'s role in the coverage of what was hailed by many as the first 'truly digital Olympics'.

24 streams of Olympics

by attracted an audience of 27, 480 users to date. For me one of the key insights gleaned from this post is the incredible speed with which users are able to adapt to new technology and tools to get the maximum personal enjoyment out of the content that appeals to them:

Audiences quickly grew accustomed to being able to switch between up to 24 streams. In between the peaks of Team GB medal moments, our data clearly shows people moving across streams to check out a whole host of different events. For example, around 6pm on Saturday 4th, audiences finished watching GB Gold in Women's Team Pursuit Cycling on stream 7 to take a look at the end of Brazil v Honduras in the football on stream 6, before switching back to stream 7 as the cycling action kicked off again.

]]> The post also offered some valuable insights into the way that 91�� audiences consume content on different devices.

The post was shared over 1000 times (which we think is a record number of shares for the blog) Nick Haley explains:

Shaping, structuring and arranging Olympic content for many different contexts and devices was a big challenge but hopefully the end result is an overall experience that feels joined up and cohesive, and most importantly something that you enjoy using. I also hope I've been able to shed some light on the design process involved in the first truly digital Olympics.

Some of our most popular posts of the year were related to .

iPlayer app on your mobile

by continues to generate traffic a year after going live on 12 December 2011 and has now been viewed nearly 100,000 times.

In the first three months this post received 123 comments. The long tail traffic for this post as well as the level of debate generated on this as well as our other posts dealing with indicate that this is a hot topic for the readers of the blog. The frustration of some is clear:

Icono wrote: While your goal of having one universal app which also runs on old 2.x versions is commendable, it seems to be doing little more than diminishing the experience for more modern devices (which probably have the highest consumption rate of the app) since the Adobe Air framework imposes its own limitations.

Kevin Chadwick wrote : Flash was the obvious choice for cross platform at the time of iplayers design, but the landscape even within adobe has changed with linux and android flash updates now set to a 5 years maximum. It would be good if the 91�� moved all their services onto HTML 5 video and dumped flash.

For the latest on the 91��'s approach to this read and his as well as ' .

Elsewhere on iPlayer there was the launch of the (hugely popular) function as blogged about by Henry Webster as well as the new on PC and mobile which was introduced by The team chimed in with a on how they developed the product.

Blogs about products and updates also attracted a lot of attention. by Cait O'Riordan was commented on 164 times, showing the huge level of anticipation around this relaunch.

Rhythm of sport on the 91�� Sport site

A follow up , creative director of Future Media User Experience and Design which went into the redesign in much greater detail was commented on 244 times, further emphasising the high expectations 91�� users have for this product.

It also gave a chance for dedicated users to take part in a dialogue with the people directly involved in building these products:

bezbarber wrote: in terms of user experience did you look at how easy it was to read the horribly cramped headlines? Please make the middle column wider so they are readable.

Scott Byrne-Fraser replied: @bezbarber: The usability of the homepage and sports indexes was tested. The feedback in the earlier rounds indicated that the pages were too long, so the amount of content on the pages was reduced and simplified to help people find the content they were looking for.

The blog featured an on-going series of posts about from a range of contributors. These gave a really good overview of the different ideas and innovations rumbling away under the surface of the 91��.

Personally I find it fascinating hearing about the new ideas coming out of these workshops and events. I look forward to reading more about what they get up to in 2013 when we hopefully start to see some of these pilots launched as new functions and products across the 91��.

Major changes were made to this year which were introduced by in his :

Red Button might have started simplistically as a way for the 91�� to provide audiences with instant, highly relevant information right on the TV [ ...] But while some might have expected Red Button to slowly be replaced with the web across an assortment of devices, no one would deny that the simplicity and ease of Red Button is as important today as when it was first introduced. So rather than anticipate a transition away from Red Button, at the 91�� we're bringing the very best of Red Button together with the very best of 91�� Online, to reinvent the experience on any screen.

about how and why this is being done:

On 15th October the video component of 91�� Red Button on Sky, FreeSat and Virgin Media will be reduced from five to one stream, bringing it in line with our Freeview offer. We are doing this because these services rely entirely on linear broadcast technologies, which are not cost-effective for an interactive service like the red button.

While towards the end of the year the was welcomed by some, but not so much by others:

ChrisCornwall wrote: Good move, but also concerned at the target launching. I would expect the Corporation to have a broad range of release platforms at the start, even if this means delaying launches to accommodate this.

Expect more posts in the new year about the release on other platforms.

This was the year when 91�� Online went responsive with sites relaunched throughout the year. Designer Ste Everington blogged about responsive design for the :

To achieve a truly consistent experience across all devices we opted for responsive web design - a single code base with an optimised layout for the device or screen size you're viewing it on. While the idea of fluid websites is nothing new, the way in which we design them is rapidly evolving. In our research phase we quickly noticed that the majority of good examples are mainly blogs and news websites.

Interaction and layout changes for browser orientation for channel homepages

updated us on the :

Pages are assembled on our platform using PHP. The PHP or page assembly layer obtains all the data it needs for the final page by calling several RESTful services (for stats, stories, live event updates) before serving the final, complete page to the audience. Since we assemble a single page for each request it also means that we become extremely cacheable and can benefit from efficient serving of pages using Varnish and Content Delivery Networks in order to reduce the load on our own servers.

While Dan Forys blogged about the new which will work across all 91�� sites.

And finally, we may live in a high tech world of fast-pace technological change and adaption, but some things will never alter: we are all still obsessed with the weather.

New 10 day forecast on 91�� Weather

Some of the most popular blogs for 2012 were about the changes made to the 91�� Weather pages. , head of product for 91�� Weather in 91�� Future Media blogged three times for us this year reflecting a number of changes to the service from an , an extended and a more to the service.

Let's hope it will predict a good festive season and we can all get home ok!

That's it from the blog. Comments will be closed for the festive period, reopening again in January 2013.

Have a great holiday and a very merry new year - see you all in 2013!

is the content producer on the 91�� Internet blog.

What's on 91�� Red Button 22 December-5 January

2012-12-22T06:00:00Z

It's the last Red Button blog of the year - but with Christmas and New Year nearly upon us it's also one of the biggest.

We've a bumper line-up to keep you entertained over the next fortnight including a glittering array of sporting highlights from the past year, Karen Hardy's expert analysis of the Strictly Come Dancing final and special mini-episodes of Doctor Who and EastEnders. There's also Christmas fun for kids from C91��, highlights from Radio 1's spectacular Hackney Weekend and the triumphant return of the Antiques Roadshow play-along quiz - not to mention a preview of next year's big shows on 91�� One.

Here's a look at what's in store - and if you want to stay updated on Red Button throughout the festive season, be sure to or visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/redbutton.

]]> Sports Review 2012

Look back at a stunning year of sporting action on the 91��

It's been an incredible year of sporting action and over the holiday period you can relive some of the most memorable moments on the 91�� Red Button.

We've picked out an array of events to watch again in full including the Wimbledon men's singles final, the Brazilian Grand Prix and Wales's clash with England in the Six Nations. There's also another chance to see highlights from this summer's Olympics featuring gold medal-winning performances by stars including , , , , , and .

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview - visit to find out what's on when.

Strictly Come Dancing - The Final

Who will get their hands on the famous glitterball?

This year's thrilling series reaches its two-part conclusion tonight with four celebrities still in the running for TV's glitziest title. , , and have wowed judges and viewers throughout the competition - but which of them will be able to perform when it really counts?

Join Karen Hardy on Red Button during the final for expert analysis of each couple's crucial routines. She's also joined by a familiar face from Strictly's past - former England cricketer Mark Ramprakash, .

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 22 Dec, 6.30pm-7.55pm, 8.50pm-10.05pm

EastEnders - All I Want for Christmas

Can Fatboy give Poppy the Christmas she deserves?

EastEnders fans can get an extra helping of fun from Walford on Thursday 27 December as we join young lovers and for a special festive episode.

Fatboy is thrilled when Poppy returns for Christmas but not all goes to plan. Unless he mans up the big lad may lose the best Christmas gift he's ever had...

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Thu 27 Dec, 8.55pm-12.30am

Doctor Who

returns to 91�� One on Christmas Day - and Red Button viewers can get ready for this year's festive adventure by watching a mini-episode.

Madame Vastra, accompanied by her loyal companions Jenny and Strax, is called upon to investigate a Victorian murder mystery. But where is the Doctor?

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 22 Dec, 6pm-6.30pm, 7.55pm-8.50pm, 10.05pm-1.25am
Mon 24 Dec, 7pm-6am Tue 25 Dec, 3pm-5.15pm

CBeebies Christmas Karaoke

If you love Christmas and you like singing then press red for the CBeebies Christmas Karaoke. You can sing along to songs from a whole host of CBeebies Christmas specials including , and . Why not get your family and friends to join in too and follow the words as they appear on your screen?

Go on, press red... You know you want to!

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 22 Dec, 6am-2.30pm
Sun 23 Dec, 6am-1pm
Mon 24 Dec, 6am-7pm
Tue 25 Dec, 6am-3pm
Wed 26 Dec, 6am-2.30pm
Thu 27 Dec, 6am-7pm
Fri 28 Dec, 6am-12pm, 2pm-4pm
Sat 29 Dec, 6am-2.30pm
Sun 30 Dec, 12pm-4pm
Mon 31 Dec, 6am-2pm

Hackney Highlights

Radio 1 helped kick off the build-up to the Olympics in June by hosting headlined by two of the biggest stars in pop - Jay-Z and Rihanna. Catch highlights from the festival that took east London by storm this fortnight on the Red Button.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Fri 28 Dec, 4pm-8.30pm
Sat 29 Dec, 12am-6am, 7pm-8.15pm, 9.10pm-1.15pm
Sun 30 Dec, 9pm-6am
Mon 31 Dec, 9pm-6am
Tue 1 Jan, 6am-12pm, 9.40pm-6am
Wed 2 Jan, 6am-11am, 10pm-6am
Thu 3 Jan, 6am-11am

Antiques Roadshow Play-Along Game

Are you one of the who've played along with our game? If so you'll know how much fun it is to join Fiona and the team to guess the value of the items featured in the programme. If you haven't played yet, then don't miss your chance this Sunday and find out if you're a novice, enthusiast, connoisseur or expert - and don't forget to tweet your scores to #antiquesroadshow.

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sun 30 Dec, 7.55pm-9pm

Sound of 2013

Discover which bands and musicians who have been tipped as from 7.15am on Friday 4 January by tuning into the 91�� Red Button. will reveal the top five acts and the longer top list of 15, all nominated by music critics, editors, broadcasters and bloggers. Huw is also joined by Radio 1's , , and 1Xtra's to tell us why we should love these new artists. Find out more now at www.bbc.co.uk/soundof2013.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Fri 4 Jan, 7am-7pm, 9pm-6am
Sat 5 Jan, 6am-11am, 7pm-8.25pm, 9.15pm-10pm Sun 6 Jan, 4am-6am

Love 2013

2012 was a big year for 91�� One with shows including , , , and capturing the imaginations of audiences across the nation and a fortnight of dedicated Olympic coverage bringing viewers closer to the Games than ever before.

It leaves us with a lot to live up to in 2013 so we've put together a showcase of new series and returning favourites to whet your appetite for the coming year. Check out what 91�� One's got in store over the next 12 months with our special preview package on the Red Button this January.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Tue 1 Jan, 8pm-9.40pm
Wed 2 Jan, 11am-7.30pm
Thu 3 Jan, 5pm-6am
Fri 4 Jan, 6am-7pm

Casualty - The Crash

There's a brand new mini-episode for Casualty fans to enjoy on Saturday 5 January as one of Holby's most hard-bitten characters gets a rude awakening.

thinks he's seen everything the job can throw at him and there's nothing left to shock him. But nothing can prepare him for what he sees when he arrives at the scene of a school coach crash...

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sat 5 Jan, 10pm-4am

The Dumping Ground Quiz

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sat 5 Jan, 11am-2.30pm

In It To Win It Play-Along Quiz

Dale Winton returns with another series of In It To Win It, the game show where people compete on general knowledge for a big money jackpot.

Think you can do better? Every Saturday press the Red Button during the show to pit your wits against our studio contestants. Come the final round will you still be In It To Win It?

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sat 5 Jan, 8.25pm-9.15pm

Secret Fortune Play-Along Quiz

The National Lottery: Secret Fortune is an ultra-tense quiz show with lots of twists, hosted by Nick Knowles.

Studio contestants compete to win their , anything from £100 to £100,000. Press the Red Button during the show to play along at home with the contestants.

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sat 29 Dec, 8.15pm-9.10pm

91�� Sport

Catch up on all the latest Sport here on the Red Button.

Highlights of the festive fortnight include:

Live NFL on Sunday 23 December, as the Atlanta Falcons take on the Detroit Lions

Final Score keeps you up to date on all the latest goals from across the country including the Boxing Day and New Year's Day fixtures

Memorable sporting moments from throughout the year - visit for more information

For the latest information refer to the .

**Note all Red Button times are subject to change at short notice

Have your say on 91�� Online and 91�� Red Button

To find out more about the consultation and how to take part, visit the 91�� Trust site:

If you would like a paper version sent to you, email onlineandredbutton@bbc.co.uk or call 0800 0680 116.

To request the questions in audio or braille please call 0800 0680 116 or textphone 0800 0153 350.

Large print is also available to download via the 91�� Trust site:

CBeebies Red Button

CBeebies Red Button welcomes younger viewers and grown-ups with a sense of adventure to the big, bright and fun world of CBeebies interactive!

CBeebies Red Button is available on the CBeebies channel, and via page 5900 on other channels.

Visit the to find out more.

Available on Freeview and Sky only

If you'd like to stay up-to-date with more news from the Red Button .

91�� Learning Indie Commissioning Event

2012-12-20T12:30:00Z

Hi, I'm executive editor for the 91��'s . Alongside , head of product for Knowledge & Learning, I'm privileged to be responsible for the 91��'s digital output around the factual and educational genres.

In November held its annual Indie Commissioning meeting at in Salford. This event gives 91�� Learning a chance to share our plans for the coming year with partners and indies.

We also presented an update on the 91��'s new Knowledge & Learning online product, discussing both the progress we're making and the strategy behind the product.

]]> , controller of 91�� Learning, spoke about the 91��'s overarching : to "inspire a life full of learning for all our audiences".

Saul laid out 91�� Learning's three main areas of focus:

We commission TV programmes (and occasional radio programmes).
We commission and produce face-to-face events.
We commission and produce online content for lifelong learners and students aged five to 19 and their teachers.

Saul described 91�� Learning's job as influencing and collaborating with other parts of the 91��, with partners and with indies to get this "life full of learning" to happen right across the 91��'s output, not just within the Learning department itself.

In that sense the department's mission is to act as a kind of 'glue'.

In keeping with this strategic approach, Saul, Ian and I want the Knowledge & Learning online product to play a 'glue' role too, helping bind the different parts of 91�� Online together for audiences.

I'd like to thank all the independent companies who gave their time to join us and share their questions and experiences. I met a lot of folks I didn't know before and from my point of view the event was a big success.

You can from the 91�� Learning Indie Commissioning session at the website.

The range of commissioning briefs that were mentioned on the day can be found now (or in a couple of cases will be posted very soon) on our page about .

Chris Sizemore is executive editor for the 91��'s Knowledge & Learning product.

User Experience and Design Connected Studio

2012-12-20T09:30:08Z

Hi I'm Yasser and until recently I was the head of for TV & iPlayer, Radio & Music. Back in October I took part as a judge for the 91�� User Experience and Design .

91�� People presented by Faith Mowbray at the 91�� Connected Studio

The brief for the event was focused around . We want to create experiences and connections across the 91�� portfolio so that whichever of the ten 91�� products you are using it's possible to move between them seamlessly through features and interactions.

It's a brief that conveys the role of User Experience and Design at the 91��. The team work right across the 91�� portfolio ensuring that whatever product we are working in we are reflecting the (GEL) which informs the way our products look and behave.

]]> But GEL is something that is continually evolving and it's important for us to look to the future. Multi-platform, personal, participatory and live experiences are all things that are influencing the future outlook of our products and the challenge is how we integrate all these things into one coherent experience across the 91�� that we call One Service.

The UX&D Connected Studio highlighted how complex meeting this challenge is but it also brought some fresh perspective on how we might begin introducing some great new features that could make a really distinctive digital 91�� service.

Six teams were shortlisted for the build studio on October 30 and 31. The outcome of those two days varied between the teams but the most successful projects did three things really well:

1. They had insight that illustrated that their idea was meeting a real audience need.
2. A clear articulation of why the project would help to achieve the One Service ambition.
3. A demo or prototype to bring the idea to life.

At the end of the second day all six teams presented 12 minute pitches with a Q&A afterwards from the judges. Here is an overview of each of the ideas.

383 Project showing a demo of their project 91�� Highlights

created a prototype called 91�� Highlights. It's a feature that enables the audience to create and share their own personal highlights. Using as an example they illustrated how their feature could work in the context of the current 91�� video player that exists across bbc.co.uk.

When the team pitched the project they did some research using Twitter and found that lot's of people refer to particular moments within programmes, sharing timecodes or references. This sparked their motivation behind the project and it was great to see how they pursued and developed their idea from the pitch to a working demo.

The pitch was a good example of how the team took on board the brief and thought about how their concept addresses the 91��'s four screen strategy.

In contrast the project Crowd Surf evolved quite a bit from the original idea that was pitched during the Creative Studio. The core idea of reflecting moments of popularity across content remained. However, the method of navigation and discovery moved away from the idea of zooming in and out of popular content and seeing the number of people watching/listening.

Instead the team chose to develop a multi direction nav that delivered onward journey's deemed most popular by other users.

91�� and demo Crowdsurf

The most radical idea during the connected studio was Face Value by and . The team developed facial recognition software that could respond to audience reaction. So it could tell you whether or not the person sat in front of their laptop with a webcam switched on was happy or sad watching something on 91�� iPlayer for example.

For me the idea was reminiscent of the project by back in 2010 but that relied on people taking photos of themselves and sending them to the station.

This idea sounds fairly novel but it's an interesting concept to consider when many devices that people buy now have built in cameras. It's a method of input that is rarely considered when designing experiences for content, but as the recent version of (that uses for gestural navigation) illustrates maybe that could change in the future.

Soda and Mixed Reality Lab showing a demo of their face recognition software

The agency teamed up with 91�� to explore an idea called the Live Companion. It's an app that enriches a live event by collating relevant information from around the 91�� and enables the audience to add their voice creating a mix of social and 91�� content. The team put together a simple prototype using and to present the idea.

Sarah Plant from TorchBox has written a good of her experience of the Connected Studio which is worth a read.

Torchbox presenting their mobile app prototype Live Companion

I've always been interested in how you can use time as a method of navigation through content so it was great to see one team try and tackle this concept.

and the 91�� teamed up for the project Time Machine - an interactive timeline of 91�� content that lets you explore the threads of a story. The used as their starting point. So, if I'm reading a story about the for example, Time Machine would enable me to go back in time and explore all the events leading up to the most recent event.

91�� People is a really compelling concept that explores the idea of using 91�� talent, historical figures, contributors or subjects as a way to navigate content across products.

was their example of choice and although the team didn't have a working demo to show they were able to tell a good story with some nice illustrations of user journeys that conveyed how their idea would meet the audience need they had identified during the creative studio.

It was a tough couple of days for the teams but as a judge I found it really inspiring. It was interesting for me to see the range of approaches that the teams took to convey their ideas and also the fidelity of their visualisations and prototypes.

We Are Mudlark presenting their Time Machine concept

Hopefully the UX&D Connected Studio provided the teams taking part with an insight into the 91��, not only its complexities but also the opportunities that exist to create new kinds of experiences.

It was good to have people from my team at the 91�� working together with external companies as it gave them an insight into how other teams work and think. This kind of collaboration is important to encourage innovation.

Although we only selected a couple of projects for the pilot stage each project that was presented during the build studio offered lots of food for thought in terms of how we might approach creating a One Service 91��.

was formally head of User Experience and Design for TV & iPlayer, Radio & Music. He has now left the 91��.

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