[CMA TV] BBC Local pilot ties up with Press Association

[Michelle McGuire]

BBC Local pilot ties up with Press Association
Geoff White
25 January 2006 09:00

The BBC's Local TV pilot in the West Midlands has been given the  
backing of the Press Association (PA), which is making video footage  
available for the scheme.

The agreement means PA's Birmingham bureau will supply footage on  
news, sport and entertainment to the BBC, which will use it for the  
10-minute "ultra-local" packages being broadcast on satellite and  
broadband for the trial.

The PA bureau in Birmingham is increasing its number of journalists  
to seven and will train all reporters on how to shoot and do rough  
edits of video news.

PA has also decided to roll out this multiskilling approach to all  
its bureaux in the UK.

The BBC Local TV pilot is due to run until August in the Black  
Country, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire,  
Stoke and Staffordshire and Shropshire.

If successful the BBC hopes to create 60 similar services around the  
country, subject to approval by the governors.

Source: broadcastnow.co.uk


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