IN addition to devoting 200 hours of network TV, BBC Sport’s coverage of the upcoming Sochi Winter Olympic Games will include over 650 hours of live action via six HD streams.
Scots presenter, Hazel Irvine, will be joined by Clare Balding and Jonathan Edwards, leading the coverage, which is outlined here in a BBC media pack.
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IF you run a radio station and your station’s website includes blogs from your DJs, you might want to read why you could be wasting your time; in this seven-point warning posted by a US-based ‘media strategist’, Mark Ramsey.
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THE portrayal of crime in film and on TV? Stephen McGinty considers, in The Scotsman, with particular reference to objections to new movie, The Wolf of Wall Street.
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MORE series of an US TV drama filmed in Scotland are reportedly being planned. Writes Brian Ferguson, in The Scotsman, Outlander “has been dubbed Scotland’s answer to ‘Game of Thrones'”. Last year, Doune Castle, in Perthshire, was closed for a month, to allow filming.
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THE publisher of the golf magazine, bunkered, is seeking a writer to work on a portfolio of golf websites – as advertised here on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
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A DOCUMENTARY series and several public debates around the country are among the referendum-related programmes to be shown by BBC Scotland during the early part of this year, as unveiled here.
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IN the wake of a jail sentence being handed down to a man for having made online threats to a Glasgow-based journalist (as noted in Friday’s Noon Briefing), there appears to have been further abuse – reports Press Gazette.
The six-month sentence followed sectarian comments about Angela Haggerty, who had edited a book about the financial collapse of Rangers FC the year before last.
The coverage of the sentence being imposed – on Thursday – included the front pages of The Herald and the Daily Record.
Haggerty is the subject of a full-page interview, by Helen McArdle, in yesterday’s Sunday Herald.
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OUCH. The Herald’s Brian Beacom writes of a nasty fall from his bike, thanks to icy weather. Among his injuries: a dislocated collar bone.
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THE Channel 4 documentary series, Benefits Street (episode one of which was aired last Monday), is described by a Scots MP as a “misrepresentation” of how the benefits system works. An interview given by Dame Anne Begg, to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, is widely reported, including here in The Herald and here in the Mirror. Listen to her, here (around the 54-minute mark).
The series didn’t go down well, either, with Scotland on Sunday columnist, Claire Black, who described it as a ‘ratings-chaser’.
And the inimitable Iain Macwhirter, in his Sunday Herald column, likened it to “the Ken Loach drama, Cathy Come Home, in reverse”.
He wrote: “That programme reflected public concern about homelessness in the 1960s when the welfare state was still seen as a great social achievement.”
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THE Scots PR agency, The BIG Partnership, has reportedly “harvested more than £500,000 of contracts after securing a host of new clients including Royal Botanic Gardens Kew”, says The Herald today, in its City Briefing column.
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USERS of social media forums such as Twitter and Facebook are to be targeted by a new nationwide campaign which aims to tackle cyber crime – reports The Herald.
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