BEGINS the website, radiotoday.co.uk (here): “Premier Christian Radio is heading to Scotland to broadcast its breakfast show from Edinburgh and Glasgow during the referendum on Scottish independence.
“The station will broadcast its ‘Inspirational Breakfast’ show, hosted by John Pantry, on both mornings – the first from Edinburgh on referendum day and, the next day, from Glasgow. ‘The News Hour’ will also be presented live from Glasgow.”
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SCOTSMAN football writer, Alan Pattullo, has a book out later this week, about the former Dundee United, Rangers, Everton and Scotland footballer, Duncan Ferguson.
It’s taken a very long time to pull In Search of Duncan Ferguson together and, in the end, Pattullo was unable to pin down his subject to take part in an interview.
It means a fascinating tale penned by Pattullo’s Scotsman colleague, Aidan Smith, here in The Scotsman on Saturday.
Plus a just-as-fascinating tale about writing the book, by Pattullo, here.
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THE headline reads: ‘Future of the BBC is a hot topic for debate’. The Herald’s political editor, Magnus Gardham, writes of his chairing an indyref debate in Glasgow… as can be read, here. And the conclusion? The BBC seems to upset everyone and everyone appears to care deeply about the BBC.
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A GAELIC language short film competition – now in its seventh year – has issued a call for entries.
Check out a media announcement on behalf of FilmG, here – on allmediascotland.com.
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MEANWHILE, a deadline of the 17th of next month has been set for entries to this year’s Scottish Magazine Awards – as announced here.
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PLUS, the annual celebration of broadcasting, digital, etc media from the ‘Celtic nations and regions’ is from today accepting entries to its awards competition, which will be culminating next year in Inverness, at the Celtic Media Festival.
For more information, read here.
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BEGINS this week’s Face to Face interview in The Herald newspaper (here): “[Weather presenter and Scot] Carol Kirkwood is quite possibly the nicest person on the planet.”
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AMBUSH marketing… Law firm partner, Craig Stirling, writes about it in The Scotsman, today – here.
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A SENIOR reporter is being sought by the Cumnock Chronicle newspaper, while publishers Romanes Media Group is also seeking a senior reporter at its Dumbarton Reporter newspaper also.
For details of the vacancies, click here, on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
Keep track of media vacancies, by following twitter.com/allmediajobs.
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THE Times newspaper saw its average sales in Scotland increase, year-on-year – rising from an average 19,567 during August last year and an average 20,420 last month.
And, says the newspapers circulation body, ABC, it was not the only daily and Sunday national newspaper widely available in Scotland to experience a year-on-year increase. The Independent on Sunday also saw its average circulation rise: from 5,522 to 5,896.
Read more, here.
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THE Scotsman newspaper is today carrying an obituary of James Petrie, arguably best known as the illustrator behind the comic character in The Beano, Minnie the Minx.
Read more, here.
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