Radical redesign of BBC news and other sites planned for March, according to sources

The BBC is planning a radical relaunch of its website to include more social media.

BBC sources have told MediaGuardian that the new-look site will launch by March.

As soon as this weekend the BBC could add social media applications to its Strictly Come Dancing online coverage.

Anthony Rose, the BBC's controller of Vision and Online, declined to reveal specific details last night at the launch of this year's MediaGuardian Innovation Awards.

But he did say that social media will play a big part in the relaunch of the BBC's family of websites. He explained that the BBC is not only working on a new homepage and the underlying hosting platform, but his team is currently researching "what the next generation in social media will be".

He confirmed that the BBC is planning several innovations to the site: "Among them for example, is the plan to enable users to comment on particular moments while watching and see what other users said about the same moment or simply rate moments with 'Boo