The New MoS

I've had a lot of emails, Facebook messages, Tweets and the like asking about the 'new' MoS and what changes we're making to the show. So I thought i'd make my first blog here on Ministry Confessions about some of the decisions we've made 'backstage' on the show.

As we mentioned a few weeks ago on the show we decided to all get our heads together and have a creative meeting about the future of the show. As individuals we all felt there were things that needed to change to make Ministry Of Slam everything it could be and we all needed a podium to make these points known. From the beginning of 2010 and the addition of Martin, Simon and Lawrence to the team, we decided to make the show very 'no holds barred' with no topic off limits and the perfect antidote to WWE's sterile family-friendly product. Being a big Howard Stern fan myself I had many ideas of things we could incorporate into the show to make it as edgy as it could be. To an extent it worked, and we had a lot of fun with it. We made the move over to No Rules Radio who would prove to be the perfect partner for us and the new format. However during the course of time we felt that we were focusing too much on trying to be 'extreme' and not spending enough time focusing on what the show should have been all about in the first place: wrestling.

During the creative meeting we came up with several ideas, not all of which i'll reveal here, but all of them would make MoS the show it needed to be. The main crux of opinion coming from everyone in the meeting was how we needed to make the show more fan-friendly. Lawrence (i'll give him the credit he deserves!) came up with the idea of making use of our voicemail facility and allowing listeners to call in at any point during the week and to have thier thoughts played out on the show. We're using Facebook, Twitter, and this blog for starters to expand our social network and really want you guys to be a much bigger part of the show.

Also we felt it was time to say goodbye to No Rules Radio. We have a few partnerships and associations we're working on as we move forward and the format of No Rules Radio is a little extreme to pitch to some of these new partners. Don't get me wrong. No Rules Radio is a great, great station and i'll certainly continue to listen to it moving forward, but as we're moving into more of a sports-radio style show we just didn't fit anymore. Many thanks to Allan Lake and the whole team over at NRR. They were nothing short of professional, supportive and super-helpful to us during our run there.

There's more. Some things you might have already learned by the time you read this, some things you might not even realise are happening but just whirr away behind the scenes. The main point is - Ministry Of Slam is YOUR show, and we want it to grow to be a hub for all UK fans to discuss and debate pro-wrestling.

We hope you enjoy it.