by Celeste Carrigan Today marks the official Red Nose Day. The BBC tonight sees a jam packed TV show of comic shenanigans. Many have already started their fundraising from shaving heads to fun runs. Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles held the longest radio marathon yesterday for 51.5-hours. The show has already got the money rolling [...]
By Steven Robson Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel topped the time sheets of first practice in Abu Dhabi earlier today. The German driver, who is currently third in the overall championship dominated most of the session, which comes exactly one day before the qualifying run that will determine where the drivers will start the final Grand [...]
The 19th annual VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer) Conference in association with Edinburgh Napier and Stirling University takes place today at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh. Speakers include John Walter Jones, chairman of S4C and Donald Campbell from MG Alba. The VLV Scottish Conference will compare and contrast the state of broadcasting [...]
By Rebeca Calvo-Gaspar. BBC employees are staging a 48 hour strike, which began at midnight last night, in protest of changes in their pension policy. Flagship programmes such as Reporting Scotland will not go on air today. The Office of Programmes and Services Enquiries at BBC Scotland in Glasgow says: “Most news programmes will be [...]
BBC journalists are to stage two 48-hour strikes in the coming weeks as the long running row over pensions rages on. The National Union of Journalists said its members will walk out on November 5 and 6 and again on November 15 and 16, with further strike dates to be announced in the coming days, [...]
By Christopher Hall Dundee are in it, Liverpool just might be going into it and a number of other football clubs are cautiously striving to avoid it. But just what are the key factors of the phenomenon which is flaunted cautiously in board rooms of football clubs around the United Kingdom? Administration. The key points [...]
Scotland is gearing up for what promises to be another record breaking Children in Need fundraising day on the 20th of November. After getting past the £2 million mark for the first time last year, efforts are being increased across the country to try to raise the money-making bar even higher. The BBC’s charity is [...]
By Suhayl Afzal and Myles Edwards Proposed changes to the list of free-to-air sporting events have triggered widespread criticism. Sporting associations, journalists and the public have reacted angrily to the recommendations put to the department of culture, media and sport by an independent panel.
BY KYLE MCCAIG Celtic football club and “a very small minority or its supporters” were at the centre of a remembrance day row after the weekends match against Falkirk was overshadowed by protests. In a weekend of little if any opposition to the remembrance day tributes paid at football grounds across the country, a minutes [...]
By Caroline Fraser Edinburgh Lectures and The Open University are holding a lecture about the making of BBC programme, A History of Scotland, a two-part series which began its second installment on Sunday, November 8 on BBC 1. The programme is presented by Scottish archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster Neil Oliver, famous for hosting hit [...]
By Ryan Culling The BBC has launched a new website which provides on demand coverage of the UK’s national political institutions and the European Parliament. Democracy Live, at bbc.co.uk/democracylive, aims to provide the public with unparalleled access to democratic institutions across Britain. The website boasts technology which allows the user to search for the political [...]
By Caroline Fraser The BBC are ready to broadcast many television and radio shows in order to make 2009 a particularly poignant year in the season of Rememberance. With the news that over 100 British soldiers have lost their lives fighting over the last 12 month alone, the BBC’s programme schedule will pay particular attention [...]
Anti-fascism campaigners demonstrated at BBC Scotland’s headquarters in Glasgow on Thursday, in protest at British National Party leader Nick Griffin appearing on ‘Question Time’.
By Lauren Redpath and Fiona Gardner The BBC were today criticised for focusing too much on the BNP leader’s appearance on Question Time last night and neglecting other important issues. The Taxpayers Alliance have condemned the BBC for giving too much coverage to Nick Griffin and have said that not enough attention was paid to [...]
21 October 2009 Amy Sutherland A programme broadcast on Cbeebies, the BBC‘s children’s channel, has come under scrutiny for changing the end of the famous nursery rhyme to something more positive. The show ‘Something Special‘ replaced “And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again” with “And all the king’s [...]
By Jessica Rodgers The family of a BBC producer shot dead in Somalia have today questioned the BBC’s lack of planning in sending her to the war-torn country without vital information that could have prevented her death. Kate Peyton, 39, from Beyton, Suffolk was shot in the back outside the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu in [...]
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