BEGINS the website, pressat.co.uk: “Scottish-based internet radio station, Scotland69am, has been voted one of the best in the world by the listeners to StreamFinder.com and V-tuner.com – two of the leading internet radio directories.
“Chris Carter – head of administration at StreamFinder advised the station of its success in an email [yesterday]: ‘The listeners at StreamFinder.com nominated station 1 Alba Scotland 69am to be a Featured Station on our internet radio directory. Only ten stations are nominated every month! StreamFinder.com is an internet radio station directory that lists more than 13,000 radio stations from around the world – your station is one of the best.'”
Read more, here.
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WHAT should be done with the radio licence servicing the west of Scotland that was recently vacated by XFM Scotland?
There is a vigorous debate taking place on the website, media.info, not least because of an announcement last week that broadcasting regulators, Ofcom, are to advertise the licence’s availability (as noted, here, on allmediascotland).
Read the comments, here.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Herald & Times senior features writer, Vicky Allan… She has been named Journalist of the Year at the inaugural Icon Awards, celebrating Scotland’s LGBTI community.
And also among the winners at the glamorous awards ceremony – in Glasgow and which included a guest appearance by recent Eurovision Song Contest winner, Conchita Wurst – was Edinburgh-based independent TV production company, Peachtree Films, which took the Media Portrayal award, for Transsexual Stories, broadcast on the BBC.
Read more, here.
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THE national agency for sport in Scotland – sportscotland – is seeking a communications manager (media).
The vacancy is being advertised, here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
Please do mention the site when replying to job adverts you see on it.
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THE Herald newspaper’s weekly SME Focus this week looks at app developer, Andrew Duncan, and his Glasgow-based company, SwarmOnline Ltd.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the BBC website: “The BBC has failed in its intention to reflect change in the way the United Kingdom is governed, according to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
“RSE said it should be a priority to broadcast news which integrates Scottish, UK and international news.
“Its report was drawn up by a committee headed by the former controller of BBC Scotland, John McCormick.”
Read more, here.
The story is picked up elsewhere, including page three of today’s Scotsman.
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THE year-on-year average circulations in Scotland of both The Times and The Financial Times newspapers have increased, according to official figures.
Says newspapers auditing body, ABC, the average circulation in Scotland of The Times during last month was 19,744 – up 0.04 per cent on the average of 19,736 during September last year.
Meanwhile, the corresponding figure for the FT was a three per cent increase, from an average 2,425 during September last year to 2,499 12 months on.
In the most recent, previous set of national newspaper ABC figures – issued a month ago (as noted here) – it was also both The Times and the FT that had enjoyed year-on-year sales increases – while all other national newspapers in Scotland had seen their year-on-year figures fall.
Then, it was a 0.3 per cent increase for The Times to an average 20,489 two months ago and a 5.8 per cent increase for the FT to 2,447 (again, two months ago).
For The Times, those August figures, like these ones for September, represented a rising trend over several months.
Read more, here.
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