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In My Opinion: John Collins: A good week for talkSPORT
January 27, 2011
WHAT a good week it has been for the radio station, talkSPORT. Its rise hasn’t…
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In My Opinion: John Collins: All change among Scotland’s radio stationsJanuary 6, 2011
THERE is an oft-repeated maxim in radio circles that listeners don’t like change. So the...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: An Old Hack raises a Ne’erday glass to the ‘old days’December 31, 2010
SADLY, no reporter on any newspaper in Scotland will be reaching into his desk drawer...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: We’re all galley slaves nowDecember 22, 2010
THERE is an insightful interview, if ever there was one, that every journalist should read...
In My Opinion: John Collins: Radio’s starring role through the Winter weatherDecember 7, 2010
THE seven days – and counting – during which Scotland has been gripped by Winter...
In My Opinion: Vicki Nash: Ofcom and the Scottish Digital NetworkDecember 3, 2010
Attended by over 200 people, a debate in Glasgow, on November 16, about the Scottish...
In My Opinion: Dave Smith: Programme-making and the Scottish Digital NetworkNovember 26, 2010
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Universities need print heavyweights to balance perception of bias towards broadcasting and digitalNovember 24, 2010
THE news that Blair Jenkins, chair of the Scottish Broadcasting Commission and a former head...
In My Opinion: Dave Rushton: Local TV and the Scottish Digital NetworkNovember 22, 2010
In My Opinion: Jim Raeburn: Newspapers and the Scottish Digital NetworkNovember 19, 2010
In My Opinion: Derek Tucker: The internet, media graduates and being ‘Jurassic’November 17, 2010
On the eve of his retirement, after 18 years as editor of The Press and...
In My Opinion: Amy Hawes: Funding my short filmNovember 14, 2010
I AM 23 years old and have neither a film school background nor a professional...
In My Opinion: David Hutchison: Cause for concern raised by hasty agreement between the BBC and the GovernmentNovember 12, 2010
IN 1986, the Peacock Report on the future financing of the BBC was published. It...
In My Opinion: Richard Goslan: There’s been a burst of news TV channels in India, so why not Scotland?November 9, 2010
IT is always invigorating to visit India, to try and absorb as much of the...
In My Opinion: John Collins: The case for adverts on the World ServiceNovember 4, 2010
WHEN I am away on holiday, I do the odd thing that so many Scots...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Is too much sport killing our newspapers?October 29, 2010
FAR too much space in our newspapers is allocated to sport – and to football...
In My Opinion: John Collins: On the verge of a radio renaissance?September 29, 2010
IN the radio industry, we have one professional body – the Radio Academy. The Scottish...
In My Opinion: Bill Heaney: Isn’t it time the ‘alcohol question’ was shown the ‘red card’?September 24, 2010
NOW that the minimum price per unit proposal for alcohol has been kicked into touch,...
In My Opinion: David Thomson: Scottish computer games industry in transition, not crisisSeptember 21, 2010
AS you may have read, the Scottish Affairs Committee visited Scotland last week to investigate...
In My Opinion: Robin MacPherson: Reflections on the Edinburgh TV FestivalSeptember 10, 2010
ANOTHER MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival is over. The Armani suits, killer heels and expense...
