FASCINATING read on the website of the media and marketing magazine, The Drum: about the apps that allow fans to live stream the events they are at and what sports bodies – not least the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, at Wimbledon – are doing about it.
Read more, here.
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REPORTS the website, Daily Business: “The tiny Inner Hebridean island of Easdale has suddenly found itself at the centre of international attention for its part in a forthcoming video by one of the hottest bands of the moment.
“Florence and the Machine chose the island as the location for shooting the video for their new single, Queen of Peace [which was released yesterday]. It is taken from their chart-topping album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.”
Read more, here.
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TWO content production assistants are being sought by Edinburgh-based Dabster Productions – as advertised, here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
Please do mention the site when responding to job vacancies you see featured on it.
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STORY from last week, from The Guardian: “The BBC is planning to triple the number of radio hours open to competition from indie companies as part of ‘compete or compare’ plans.
“The proposals, negotiated with the Radio Independents Group, would see 27,000 hours of programming opened up to competition within the next six years, with the rest benchmarked against private sector performance.”
Read more, here.
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A HANDUL of Scots community radio stations have been named among several dozen, UK-wide, to have breached requirements expected of the sector – by broadcasting regulators Ofcom.
Read the full Ofcom adjudications, here.
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A VIDEO streaming firm is increasing its Scottish workforce after moving to Fife, says The Herald.
Video-over-internet specialists, Exterity, is reported to have announced plans to double its 54-strong Scottish workforce in the next five years, as it moved to bigger headquarters in Dalgety Bay.
Read more, here.
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A SCOTS photographer has been named a winner of a competition celebrating the environment..
Esme Allen’s pictures of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq have won her a Forestry Commission England exhibition.
Some of Esme’s winning work is featured on page eight of today’s The Scotsman.
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