http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/ Spike articles en-gb info@allmediascotland.com info@flamegreen.com 30 http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4245/03072009/Herlihy_Appointed_Entertainment_and_Events_Head_at_BBC_Scotland A TV producer, whose credits include Strictly Come Dancing, The Weakest Link, Star Spell and The F Word, has been appointed BBC Scotland’s new head of entertainment and events. Eileen Herlihy, currently an executive producer with IWC, will be responsible for all in-house network... Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:49:02 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4244/03072009/Mann_Joins_MMM One of Scotland’s best-known PR consultants has been appointed a director at a media consultancy founded by a former Sunday Mail political editor and a former Scotland correspondent for BBC network news. Charlie Mann becomes McGarvie Morrison Media’s first PR director and... Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:48:12 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4243/03072009/July_Headline_Competition_Even_More Entries for the July Headline of the Month competition are beginning to flood in. On Wednesday, there was ‘For Whom the Decibels Toll’, in the Scottish Daily Express, and yesterday it was ‘Pawn Yerselves!’, in the South Glasgow  News. Yesterday,... Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:47:12 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4242/03072009/Invite_Issued_for_Fife_FM_Licence Applications are being sought to operate the FM radio licence in Fife, which is currently held by Kingdom FM. Says broadcasting regulators, Ofcom, the current licence expires in October next year and up for grabs covers from then until December 31 2015. The deadline for applications is... Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:45:52 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4241/03072009/Multiply_Behind_Murray_Promotion An Edinburgh marketing communications agency is behind a promotional campaign and competition that will soon see someone win a day in the company of Scottish tennis star, Andy Murray. Today sees Murray play in the Wimbledon semi-finals and among his sponsors is bottled water company, Highland... Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:44:58 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4240/02072009/New_Delivery_Service_to_Provide_Safe_Passage_to_the_Media_for_Video_Reports Journalists looking to compile video or audio reports of a story are soon going to be able to guarantee delivery of their material into the heart of some of the country’s biggest media outlets.   It follows the ‘soft launching’ this week of Tradeclips,... Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:43:20 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4239/02072009/Journalists_Charity_to_Benefit_from_Motor_Racing_Night In the same relay style of the world-famous Le Mans 24-hour motor race, journalists are being invited to take part in a go-karting competition - all for charity. The Glasgow and west of Scotland branch of the Journalists’ Charity is staging The Press Grand Prix, involving teams of... Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:38:09 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4238/02072009/Headline_of_the_Month_Another_July_Contender A group of school pupils in East Renfrewshire have recently retained a chess title, earning themselves a rave review in their local, free newspaper, the South Glasgow News. And courtesy of the paper’s editor, Rob Reid, the article was headlined, ‘Pawn Yerselves!’,... Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:35:52 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4237/02072009/More_Twittering Everyone is doing it, not least Scottish journalists..... As articles these last couple of days on allmediascotland.com underline, there’s a definite penchant among Scots hacks for Twittering. Former GMTV chief correspondent, Alan Fisher (pictured), will be Tweeting from the... Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:33:53 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4236/02072009/TV_Taster_Aimed_at_Young_People A ‘taster’ training course on what it’s like to work in television is being offered to young people. Says Glasgow Caledonian University, their Teen TV course might be of interest to journalists whose offspring are thinking of also working in the media. The... Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:31:17 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4235/02072009/In_Praise_of_Scotland_on_Sunday That allmediascotland is read far and wide is illustrated by a glowing tribute to Scotland on Sunday newspaper, sent in by a pensioner living in Yorkshire. Writes Terry Duncan: “Congratulations must go to the Scotland on Sunday for obviously doing a quick change in the content of its... Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:29:52 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4234/01072009/Scotland_Pilot_News_Proposal_out_to_Consultation Prospective operators of a commercial TV news pilot for Scotland may be a hybrid of various news providers - including newspapers and websites, as well as TV - according to a consultation document issued by the UK government. It follows details issued yesterday by the Department for Culture,... Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:54:23 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4233/01072009/Hacks_Denied_Work_Time_Access_to_Facebook And there was us thinking most journalists working at The Scotsman newspaper - and sister titles, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News - were constantly tracking allmediascotland.com on their internet (they might well be, when a new look is soon launched). But it has been revealed -... Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:54:09 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4232/01072009/All_a_Twitter It was Spike Jnr ‘minding the shop’ yesterday and his tale about Twittering has, by all accounts, had Scotland’s media all a chatter, including about all those tweets that were conspicuous by their absence. For instance, there are the two former hacks who... Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:25:10 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4231/01072009/Headline_of_the_Month_One_June_the_Other_July 5pm is a Glasgow-based online, restaurant reservation service offering great-value evening meal deals, plus of course, providing the 1000-plus restaurateurs already signed up, UK-wide, the opportunity to fill seats that would otherwise be empty. And on its blog, earlier this month, it reported... Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:14:18 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4230/01072009/Digger_Job_Vacancy The Glasgow investigations publication, The Digger, is seeking a news reporter. Here. * Send your Scottish media news and gossip, in the strictest confidence, to  info@allmediascotland.com Or phone us on 07710 721 478. Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:07:24 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4229/30062009/Johnston_Gets_Debt_Breathing_Space The owner of The Scotsman Publications has been given a two-month extension as it bids to confront its current levels of debt. Edinburgh-based Johnston Press is understood to be addressing loans of £448 million, held by a consortium of financial institutions. With certain covenants... Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:58:17 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4227/29062009/Twit_and_Wisdom How many twits are in the Scottish media? Oops, we mean tweeters. And many outlets are still eschewing the opportunity to promote their work – and their brand – on the microblogging site, despite its increasingly large and influential audience. We, at allmediascotland (here)... Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:01:34 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4226/29062009/Festival_Bill_into_Top_Gear The full line-up for the Edinburgh Television Festival has been announced, with comedian, Frank Skinner, and TV's Top Gear presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, among the well-known figures headed for the city’s Conference Centre – and assorted George Street hostelries - on the... Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:00:50 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4225/29062009/June_Headline_of_the_Month_One_Day_Left There is only one day left for entries to this month's edition of a newly-launched competition to recognise the best headlines in the Scottish media. Headline of the Month, launched this month, is a throwback to a similar competition that used to run in the trade mag, Press... Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:37:55 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4224/28062009/Edinburgh_Juries_are_Moon-struck The Edinburgh International Film Festival came to an end yesterday by crowning the winners in the twelve competition categories for both feature and short films.   The awards were presented by EIFF artistic director, Hannah McGill, deputy artistic... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:01:20 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4223/28062009/Talkback_Thames_Under_Fire_from_MSPs An independent TV production company has come in for criticism..... for hiring English presenters after receiving funding from the Scottish Government. Yesterday's Scottish Sunday Express reported the winning of a BBC1 network commission by the new,... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:46:01 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4222/28062009/Jackos_Late-night_Edit_Jolt The death of the ‘King of Pop’, Michael Jackson, has become the biggest celebrity story in years, with the full weight of the print and broadcast machine devoted over the past few days to chronicling the singer’s life and death. However, the late-night (British... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:34:30 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4221/26062009/Former_Spin_Doc_to_Speak_at_Capital_Conference Former Downing Street spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, is to speak at a conference on the need for increased communications and PR during a recession. Taking place in September in Edinburgh, the event will also feature Milorad Adjer, the managing director of survey and research organisation,... Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:35:36 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4217/26062009/Local_Programming_a_Hit_Says_STV A strategy by STV of opting out of the ITV network at peak viewing times to broadcast locally-made programmes is, says the company, “delivering further savings whilst at the same time boosting our Scottish audience”. The claim is being made today STV in a trading statement,... Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:03:04 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4216/26062009/Cricket_Focus_Part_of_Features_Push_by_Former_Scotsman_Snapper A former chief photographer at The Scotsman is offering a cricket photography service as he launches himself as a news and features freelancer. Donald MacLeod was at The Scotsman for 29 years before recently taking a redundancy package as part of a cost-cutting exercise by the paper. Declaring... Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:49:52 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4215/26062009/Drinks_Your_Thoughts The Compass (Leith), the Tun, The World’s End, the Jolly Judge and the Jinglin’ Geordie have all been put forward as possible venues for - in the words of one correspondent yesterday - a “pseudo press club” for Edinburgh. It follows a suggestion... Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:47:40 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4214/26062009/Meadows_Rebuts_Rip-off_Claim Film critics were on the receiving end of some heavy criticism by one of the UK’s leading film directors yesterday, who took the opportunity of a Q&A session at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to rebut an accusation that he had copied an idea from a TV series for a... Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:46:31 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4213/25062009/BBC_Scotland_Commissions_STV_for_First_Time_to_Make_Antiques_Series Twenty, half hour programmes have been commissioned from STV, from across the road from its headquarters, by BBC Scotland. The programmes, for daytime transmission on BBC Two, will be made by STV’s production arm, STV Productions. It comes hard on the heels of an outline agreement... Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:21:44 BST http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4212/25062009/Drinks_Meals_Your_Views_Sought It was a speech by Andrew Gilligan, at least three years ago, that marked the end of the McMedia dining club - run by allmediascotland and comprising media folk taking over a restaurant for an evening and enjoying the company of a guest speaker (others included Matthew Parris, Iain Macwhirter,... Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:20:35 BST