THE Scotsman today carries an obituary of David Reid, who, besides being a church minister, had spells as a religious broadcaster on BBC Radio Scotland and an adviser on religious affairs at STV.
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BEGINS a media release posted on allmediascotland, from Mike Ritchie Media: “Celtic Music Radio 95FM, the charitable community radio station based in Glasgow, has broken its audience record for this year’s Celtic Connections [music festival].
“More than 115,976 people tuned in either on 95FM across Glasgow or via its website as the station broadcast live for the tenth year running at Connections, which ended [on Sunday].”
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A STAKEHOLDER and communications officer is being sought by Smart Energy GB, to be based in Edinburgh – as advertised here on the allmediascotland.com media jobs board and repeated on twitter.com/allmediajobs.
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BEGINS the website, journalism.co.uk: “Smartphones are everywhere in the English-speaking world, and around the globe they number one for every four people.
“News organisations are increasingly seeing most of their web traffic coming from mobile devices – and most of that is driven by social media – so is it still worth making an app if the audience don’t use it?”
The debate is a podcast.
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BEGINS the website, a516digital.com: “RNIB’s [Glasgow-based] Insight Radio station has announced that it will cease transmission on Sky channel 0188 on Monday 9th February 2015.
“On air and on social media platforms, it is encouraging listeners to make the switch to Freeview channel 730, where the station has had a presence since 1st April 2014.”
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