BREAKING BBC plans for the coronavirus:
- New show "Health Check Live" with advice for how to stay healthy at home if you are in isolation.
- 5 Live doing as many phone-ins with experts as possible.
- Virtual church services launching on BBC One on Sunday mornings...
- New show "Health Check Live" with advice for how to stay healthy at home if you are in isolation.
- 5 Live doing as many phone-ins with experts as possible.
- Virtual church services launching on BBC One on Sunday mornings...
- The One Show content will be skewed towards health and well-being, healthy eating and fitness tips.
- Virtual church services on BBC Local Radio across England.
- BBC Food website to offer what can be made with essentials, including low income families / older people.
- Virtual church services on BBC Local Radio across England.
- BBC Food website to offer what can be made with essentials, including low income families / older people.
If schools close.... BBC also announcing a daily educational show for key stages and year groups on iPlayer, expanding BBC Bitesize, educational podcasts etc and BBC Four doing shows on A Level and GCSE curriculum. 
- BBC also announcing MANY shows returns to BBC iPlayer: Spooks, The Missing, Waking the Dead and more.
- Radio 4 is digging into their archive of drama.
- BBC Sounds expanding classic spirt, comedy and drama and allowing audiences to search through their archive.
- Radio 4 is digging into their archive of drama.
- BBC Sounds expanding classic spirt, comedy and drama and allowing audiences to search through their archive.
- "We will aim to create live fund-raising events, to raise money for coronavirus good causes.:
- BBC proposing "Culture in Quarantine" - keeping arts alive in homes, working with Arts Culture England and more including access to musicians, plays, comedy and more from home.
- BBC proposing "Culture in Quarantine" - keeping arts alive in homes, working with Arts Culture England and more including access to musicians, plays, comedy and more from home.
- "Under the umbrella ‘Make a Difference’, every local radio station will join up with local volunteer groups to help co-ordinate support for the elderly, house-bound or at risk, making sure people know what help is available in their area."
Tony Hall: “We also will do everything from using our airwaves for exercise classes for older people, religious services, recipes and advice on food for older people and low income families, and should schools close, education programming for different age groups."
BBC announces its mission:
"Our core role is to bring trusted news and information to audiences in the UK and around the world in a fast-moving situation, and counter confusion and misinformation."
"Our core role is to bring trusted news and information to audiences in the UK and around the world in a fast-moving situation, and counter confusion and misinformation."
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- New iPlayer service for Children.
- Newsround 'throughout the day' on CBBC.
- "We will work with partners to get older-age-group exercise routines, and other fitness programming, into people's homes on TV or radio."
- Newsround 'throughout the day' on CBBC.
- "We will work with partners to get older-age-group exercise routines, and other fitness programming, into people's homes on TV or radio."
To clarify, the plans for a weekly church service on BBC One is an *aim* at this point, subject to "broadcast capacity."
I think we can safely say, this is the biggest overhaul / change of services the BBC has implemented in years.
I think we can safely say, this is the biggest overhaul / change of services the BBC has implemented in years.
Director General Tony Hall: "It will take time to emerge from the challenges we all face, but the BBC will be there for the public all the way through this.”
In one morning: all soaps filming suspended / Glasto cancelled / BBC shows overhauled / Core BBC News service starts.
In one morning: all soaps filming suspended / Glasto cancelled / BBC shows overhauled / Core BBC News service starts.
Only thing I missed: BBC says that it is looking into how it support other religions in its programming for those who cannot attend services. For example, leading into Ramadan.
Wittertainment on @bbc5live is continuing: they are focusing on films you can watch at home, from Netflix to iPlayer. Inspired idea.
I have received messages from local community radio stations / commercial stations asking if they can help in regards to the BBC's "Make A Difference" initiative. I hope that they share resources with partners.
ARTS: BBC says that it is rolling out an "essential arts and culture service" across Radio 3, 4, BBC Two, BBC Four, BBC Sounds / iPlayer.
It will include guides through closed exhibitions, new performances and plays and 'quarantine diaries from great visionaries.' Plus archives.
It will include guides through closed exhibitions, new performances and plays and 'quarantine diaries from great visionaries.' Plus archives.
They say that they envisage a 'virtual festival of the arts.'
BBC: "It has been proved time and again how beneficial arts and culture is to mental health and so we are keen to continue to help people at home develop their own creative practice."
BBC: "It has been proved time and again how beneficial arts and culture is to mental health and so we are keen to continue to help people at home develop their own creative practice."
The BBC podcast covering the outbreak, presented by Adam Fleming, will be called “The Coronavirus Newscast”
LATEST: new interview with Tony Hall, DG of BBC, teased:
"We are worried about how long we can keep all of our services going, but what the team have done is to come with some ideas, which I think that plays to what the BBC is there to do."
"We are worried about how long we can keep all of our services going, but what the team have done is to come with some ideas, which I think that plays to what the BBC is there to do."
Tony Hall asked that, one point you could tune into a radio / TV station and it is blank: "I really, really hope not. I don't think that is going to happen."
"You may have restricted access to radio and television than the the cornucopia you have at the moment. That's possible."
"You may have restricted access to radio and television than the the cornucopia you have at the moment. That's possible."
He says that services may be merged because people may become ill, or because they have to look after others, or they may not be able to turn up to work.
The interview with Tony Hall is up here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…
REQUEST: I have received so many emails from organisations, museums, teachers etc, asking if they can help or provide resources with the BBC's programming plans, particularly "Culture in Quarantine."
Can someone at the BBC message let me know who to forward these messages to?
Can someone at the BBC message let me know who to forward these messages to?
