[CMA TV] FW: BBC Scotland to have more localised TV newsgathering

[Michelle McGuire]

Forwarded From: "Ian Fergusson" <ian.fergusson at bbc.co.uk>

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BBC Scotland news to go really local as country is split into six

FERGUS SHEPPARD
MEDIA CORRESPONDENT
BBC Scotland will launch the first of a mini-regional tier of news  
services in early 2007, it was revealed last night.
The detail emerged in a separate report on BBC Scotland by the  
Broadcasting Council for Scotland (BCS).
The BBC plans to divide Scotland into six regions covered by a  
network of 36 video journalists. Their job will be to provide local  
television reports available over broadband and digital TV in  
addition to the 30-minute Reporting Scotland programme.

Regional text news services will begin in 2006 and the first of the  
mini-region TV services will launch in 2007.
The regions covered will be the North-east, Highlands and Islands,  
Tayside and Central, Glasgow and the West, Edinburgh and the East,  
and Southern Scotland.

The BCS report praised Reporting Scotland for a third year of  
audience growth and singled out programme successes such as Totally  
Dance School, Gutted, River City, T in the Park and Offside.

There were only passing references to The Gathering Place, the  
controversial history of the Scottish Parliament made by IWC Media,  
the independent film maker part-owned by the BBC presenter Kirsty  
Wark, pictured below. The report said the programme had offered  
viewers "the unique perspective of architect Enric Miralles".

The report said Radio Scotland continued to broadcast a "rich range"  
of programmes. However, it said the BBC continued to suffer from low  
approval ratings in Scotland and that it had to do more to make  
politics engaging to a mainstream audience.


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Michelle McGuire
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Community Media Association
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