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- Beeb's taxi bill up pounds 2m
- THE BBC bill for taking guests to programmes rose by pounds 2mlast year, it has been revealed. It spent pounds 5.3mon driving contributors and guests in the last financial year, up from pounds 3.3m the previous year. In total, the taxi bill for the BBC rose to pounds...
- Research articles 2008-07-15
- There is life in the rainy regions
- Byline: Barry Gibson IT is in little, unguarded phrases that we reveal ourselves. This thought came to me on Monday evening as I listened to Radio 4 while making a curry. Just before 6pm, weather forecaster Louise Lear told listeners what to expect for the day ahead....
- Research articles 2008-07-02
- Beeb's burial apolog
- THE BBC has said sorry to viewers who complained about scenes in EastEnders in which a character was buried alive. But it defended broadcasting the episodes before the watershed. The controversial scenes saw scorned wife Tanya Jo Joyner enact her revenge on errant husband Max Jake Wood for...
- Research articles 2008-03-26
- TV rivals get half BBC fee
- THE BBC may soon have to share the licence fee with its TV rivals. A chunk of the annual pounds 3.2billion from our pounds 135.50 TV licences could go to commercial channels' public service offerings like regional news, documentaries and children's shows. Former Broadcasting...
- Research articles 2008-03-16
- HOME FRONT PRESS: COMMUNITY PRESS: COMMUNITY THE ONLINE
- HEARING the relaxed response of BBC Scotland chieftain Mark Coyle to last week's launch of 12 "ultralocal" news websites in Glasgow would have been enough cause many in the Scottish news fraternity to choke on their lattes. The Beeb's editor of continuous news was giving his thoughts on...
- Research articles 2008-03-09
- BEEB'S SUCH A TURN-OFF.. JUST KICK IT INTO TOUCH
- JUST how long, and at what cost, will it take for football to realise that screening live matches on the BBC is bad for its health? If the authorities needed further convincing, it was delivered last Saturday when 6,491 spectators turned up for the Kilmarnock v Celtic...
- Research articles 2008-02-10
- THE GAELIC JOB TELEVISION: NEW CHANNEL TELEVISION: NEW CHANNEL A
- ALAN Esslemont has a big job to do. If the future of Scotland's Gaelic digital television station is to be assured, its head of content must make your ordinary Scot tune in to the new station on a regular basis. And if that wasn't hard enough, he has only 15...
- Research articles 2008-02-03
- Beeb's new phone line rules
- The BBC has introduced strict new rules governing the use of premium rate phone lines. The move comes as it prepares to resume viewer competitions. From this week calls to BBC programmes using premium call lines will be capped at 15p. Exceptions will be granted to programmes...
- Research articles 2007-12-31
- Alan Taylor's Diary
- UNLIKE my dear friend Jack "The Hat" McLean, I have a morbid lack of interest in cemeteries, which give me the heebie-jeebies. In contrast, The Hat is attracted to them as he is to howffs. His current favourite is Glasgow's Southern Necropolis, where lie Thomas Lipton, the grocer; ...
- Research articles 2007-10-21
- Ofcom delay is latest blow to launch of Gaelic channel TELEVISION:
- BEHIND the distinguished words and the cheer at the grand opening of BBC Scotland's new Glasgow headquarters at Pacific Quay last week, controller Ken MacQuarrie could have a crisis on his hands. The Beeb's man in Scotland hardly had a good run-in to the opening, thanks to the...
- Research articles 2007-09-23
- BEEB'S BOOBS
- RED-FACED BBC bosses apologised last night after a blunder on its Saturday morning football show mixed up two top Scots SPL teams. Viewers of Football Focus watched in disbelief as the show's Scottish highlights saw last week's Aberdeen v Hearts clash muddled. The commentary had...
- Research articles 2007-08-19
- Beeb is cueless
- THE BBC, who insist that neither sexism or ageism was behind the sacking of news reader Moira Stuart, say that despite a national outcry Moira will not be re-instated. The reason, says director general Mark Thompson, is that the BBC no longer intends to use nonjournalistic presenters. ...
- Research articles 2007-04-29
- Tell the Beeb: U.S. Magazine Ads Are in Free Fall
- Tell the Beeb: U.S. Magazine Ads Are in Free FallEither the BBC has endless funds or...they know something we don't. Wish it was the latter!BBC's decisionDespite my tone in this post, I do respect BBC enough to trust their market research that Americans are ready for a smart competitor to...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Beeb is messing up the game
- It's typical of NUFC to make the closing date for Cup ticket applications the same day that the BBC tell us when it kicks off. Some may not be able to make an early or late start but do they care? Of course not. The Beeb is getting worse than...
- Research articles 2005-03-18
- Football: Lennie hits out at Beeb
- THE poor old Beeb has come in for another hammering - from Cardiff City manager Lennie Lawrence. It might not have quite the impact of Lord Hutton, but Lawrence was far from happy with BBC Wales after they held the semi-final draw for their flagship domestic competition,...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Ian Hyland's TV Week: BBC.. no sport and zero personalities
- BARELY 10 minutes into Sports Personality Of The Year (BBC1 Sunday) the close-ups of Jonny Wilkinson were already hovering dangerously near double figures. But then, as Linford Christie arrived on stage, Jonny did something even more well-timed than that last gasp drop-goal. He yawned....
- Research articles 2003-12-21
- Blair, Top Aides Await Grilling in Ira... Arms Probe.
- By Tom Hundley, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 25--LONDON--For British Prime Minister Tony Blair, this is the week the political bill for the war in Ira... comes due. It could cost him his defense secretary, Geoff Hoon. It almost ...
- Research articles 2003-08-25
- Football: BATTLE OF THE BOX: But Trev's not clever
- TREVOR Brooking's short spell as West Ham boss clearly hasn't changed his penchant for sitting on the fence. BBC kicked off their marathon, 330 minutes of coverage with an interview looking at Brooking the manager. The inference was that he had been transformed into...
- Research articles 2003-05-18
- BEEB COMEDY HUNT BEGINS
- BBC Northern Ireland is on the hunt for new talent to raise a few laughs in the television schedule. The Beeb is looking for nine people to lead the way in developing new comedy in Belfast, Cardiff and Glasgow. Mike Edgar, BBC Northern Ireland's...
- Research articles 2001-06-10
- Beeb's bosses defy crackdown on taxis by Dyke
- BBC bosses are defying orders to stop running up colossal taxi fares. In a clear breach of Director-General Greg Dyke's new cost- cutting rules, cabs are still being ordered and left waiting. On Wednesday night a fleet of 10 cars was on standby at...
- Research articles 2000-07-16
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