BEGINS an announcement from STV: “STV Edinburgh launched [on Monday night] with a reach of approximately 166,000 viewers in Edinburgh and the east.
“The new channel began broadcasting at 1900 with brand new magazine show, The Fountainbridge Show, and the opening night audience peaked during the show with around 48,000 viewers.
“In addition, the new channel was streamed live 2,000 times on the STV Player with hundreds of catch-up views so far.”
Read more, here.
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MEDIA professionals and members of the public are being invited to a debate in Glasgow tomorrow evening – in the aftermath of last week’s attack by gunmen in Paris at the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
Being run by the NUJ Scotland and the about-to-launch website, CommonSpace, the debate will – say the organisers – “examine the challenges facing the media, free speech in the industry and explore editorial ethics within the context of a free press”.
Being chaired by NUJ Scotland organiser, Paul Holleran, panellists will include Alison Balharry, formerly of BBC World Service and Al Jazeera, and Angela Haggerty, editor of CommonSpace.
The event is free to attend, just turn up, at Oran Mor, Glasgow; 7pm start.
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BEGAN Brian Ferguson, yesterday in The Scotsman: “Experts have delivered a damning verdict on Scotland’s film and TV industry to a parliamentary probe into its troubled state.
“A Holyrood inquiry has been told how film-makers, companies, writers and producers are all struggling to make a living and get work made due to a lack of finance, industry support, facilities and backing from broadcasters.”
Read more, here.
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A COMMUNICATIONS and media officer is being sought by the Scottish Association for Marine Science, as advertised here on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board.
Check out twitter.com/allmediajobs and do feel free to mention allmediascotland when replying to any job vacancies you see on the site.
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BEGINS Louise Sayers, on the BBC website (here): “The only paper to publically back independence saw a dramatic surge in circulation in the run up to the referendum.
“Sunday Herald sales stood at a weekly average of 31,795 in December 2014, up 31 per cent over the course of the year.
“Sister paper, The Herald, also saw a boost in sales during the referendum period.
“But managing editor of Herald & Times Group, Tom Thomson, said circulation for the titles had since ‘eroded’.”
Read more, here, from the website of Glasgow Caledonian University, where Thomson was speaking.
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BEGINS a story on the website (here) of the internet TV channel, Art in Scotland TV: “We’re celebrating 15 years of our arts-news archive with a series of compilation programmes. Arts-news began in 2000 as a way of providing short art and literature related news items for the local TV channels Edinburgh Television and Channel Six Dundee. Several of these short clips were combined into programmes.
“Our arts-news channels Summerhall TV, Art in Scotland TV and Writer Stories TV deliver short clips on contemporary art, literature and performances. Our sites are built upon an archive of almost 2000 film and TV clips that stretch back to the 1970s.”
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THE annual general meeting – held on Monday evening – of the Edinburgh & District branch of the National Union of Journalists returned the same office-bearers as last year:
Chair – Liam Rodger, vice-chair – Hilary Horrocks, secretary – Pat Herd, treasurer – Brian Horne, equality officer – Mark Auld, and welfare officer – Hilary Horrocks.
Meanwhile, the Edinburgh Freelance branch of the NUJ hosts its AGM this coming Monday (not two days ago, as an earlier version of Your Noon Briefing indicated – apologies).
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BEGINS the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “A community radio station in Scotland has surrendered its licence to [broadcasting regulators] Ofcom before it has even launched.
“Sound of Mull Radio was granted a five-year licence in 2012 and promised a launch in 2014, but instead has decided not to launch at all.”
Read more, here.
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