A PROGRAMME made for Channel 4 by a Glasgow-based independent TV production company was namechecked two days ago in Westminster, at Prime Minister’s Questions.
The programme – made by Firecrest Films for the channel’s investigative journalism strand, Dispatches – sought to scrutinise recent employment figures, such as how many people are working on zero hours contracts.
The namecheck came in a question to the PM, from Mary Glindon MP, Labour, North Tyneside.
The programme is available on Channel 4’s catch-up service, here.
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BEGINS the website of Newsworks, which describes itself as “the marketing body for national newspapers in all their forms”: “UK newsbrands drove 445.4 million social media interactions* between January and December 2014, according to Newsworks analysis of Newswhip data. This included 224.2 million Facebook ‘likes’ for articles, 87 million Facebook comments, 86 million Facebook shares, 44.1 million Twitter shares, 2.7 million article URLs posted on LinkedIn and 1.4 million pins on Pinterest.
“Facebook is the most important social medium for sharing stories for all UK newsbrands – the total amount of Facebook interactions has increased by 19 per cent during the year 2014. Two of the top three English-language news publishers on Facebook last year were UK titles – The Guardian and the Daily Mail.”
Read more, here.
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BEGINS the website, media.info: “Community radio stations across the UK are set to benefit from a package of changes that will help them thrive and continue to provide a valued radio service to their local communities, in an announcement made today.”
Read more, here.
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AND again, from the website, media.info: “Thirteen of the 20 most popular programmes consumed on the BBC iPlayer’s radio service in 2014 were cricket commentaries on Test Match Special, it’s been published today.
“The most popular programme of the year was day one of the England vs Indiamatch on 7th August, attracting 312,500 total requests. By contrast, the most popular programme on the TV iPlayer, Sherlock, attracted 4.1 million requests.
“Manchester United vs Manchester City on 25th March was the second most popular programme, with 295,300 listen requests.
“Sport achieved 19 out of the top 20 programmes, including golf and boxing.”
Read more, here.
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THE Herald’s Susan Egelstaff – in her regular, Friday column slot for the paper’s sports supplement – praises an advert encouraging girls and women to try sport.
She writes: “To reap the benefits of sports and physical activity, you need not necessarily be any good at it.”
Read more, here. And here’s the ad, from Sport England…
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BEGINS the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “A review and public consultation has been launched by the BBC Trust looking at the way that BBC programmes and content are supplied to the BBC by either independent production companies or BBC in-house production.”
Read more, here.
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