BEGINS The Independent: “Viewers can buy permanent downloads of Sherlock, as well as rarities from the BBC archive, after the Corporation issued a challenge to iTunes by opening its first digital BBC Store.
“From 5 November, audiences can buy-to-keep downloads of their favourite current BBC programmes, as well as material unseen since broadcast, including rare Dennis Potter plays, from the Corporation’s vast archive of 4m shows.”
Read more, here.
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AN agriculture editor is being sought by The Courier newspaper – as advertised here, in the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
Says publisher, DC Thomson: “After more than ten years on the frontline, our agriculture editor, and current UK Regional Farming Journalist of the Year, Ewan Pate, has decided to retire.”
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SAYS STV, in an announcement issued this morning: “STV has commissioned two new, 30-minute documentaries as part of This is Scotland, a documentary and new talent initiative run by the Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) in association with Creative Scotland.
“The commissions follow on from last year’s inaugural This is Scotland series which saw two new documentaries screened in February this year.”
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THE membership has been announced of the advisory committee for next year’s Edinburgh TV Festival.
The committee chair is the BBC’s head of current affairs, Fiona Campbell.
Next year’s festival is scheduled for August 24-26.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the highly-respected media commentator, Raymond Snoddy: “We will have to wait with bated breath to see whether October was an anomaly for newspaper circulations – or the first sign of something more important.
“The Holy Grail for national newspapers is to find the bottom of the circulation sales decline – after all these years. And once found, even if they can only manage to bump along that bottom, what a wonderful thing that would be.
“For T.S. Eliot, October was the cruellest month. Not for national newspapers it wasn’t.”
Read more, here, on the website, Mediatel.
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