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Graeme Brown B'ham Post 10 Feb 11
The BBC has revealed plans to cut 20 per cent of staff at the Mailbox working on prime-time shows such as Gardeners World, Coast and Hairy Bikers.
Twenty-six of the 121 employees in its factual programming department in Birmingham are to go across roles including producers, assistant producers and researchers…
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Jon Griffin B'ham Mail 9 Feb 11
The BBC has refused to release a report into claims of bullying at Midlands Today following a Freedom of Information request – despite an outcry from journalists.
Laura Ellis, Business Manager for the BBC English Regions, has rejected a request from the Birmingham Mail for a copy of the findings into the report compiled by Staffordshire-based Developing People Ltd…
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Jon Griffin B'ham Mail 5 Nov 10
BBC Midlands Today presenters Suzanne Virdee and Nick Owen deserted the studios to join a Bonfire Night strike at the Mailbox, in Birmingham.
And one of Nick’s ties was also a casualty of the protest, with the broadcaster persuaded to donate the item to a Guy Fawkes-style dummy assembled to mark the BBC journalists’ November 5 and 6 picket line protest…
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Jon Griffin B'ham Post 1 Oct 10
Staff at BBC Midlands Today have passed a vote of no confidence in management amid claims of widespread bullying and intimidation at the Birmingham television operation.
A crisis meeting attended by officials from the National Union of Journalists led to no confidence votes against acting editor Mark Hayman and Head of Regional Programmes Cath Hearne…
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Harvy' Notebook 27 Jul 10
Goodbye BBC Asian Network… the battle has been lost and sadly, the station will be tuning out by the end of 2011. It looks like a lot more people couldn’t bare the thought of BBC 6 Music closing.
It will definitely leave a big gap in the British Asian and non-Asian community. It gave a voice to what may have been a voiceless community at times and gave a sense of belonging…
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The Stirrer 5 Jul 10
The BBC Trust – chaired by former Birmingham Council chief executive Sir Michael Lyons – has backed Director General Mark Thomspon’s plan to close the national Asian Network radio station based at the Corporation’s Mailbox studios.
The news will come as another blow to the city’s beleagured media industry, still reeling from last week’s announcement that Smooth Radio is relocating to Manchester – although it’s hardly a surprise, given that the threat to the Asian Network has aroused relatively little public outcry compared to 6Music which has been reprieved…
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Christina Savvas B'ham Post 10 Jun 10
Shamed former BBC TV presenter Ashley Blake has been released from prison less than nine months into a two-year sentence for attacking a teenager with a wooden pole.
Blake was freed from Stafford Prison this week where he was serving a sentence for wounding and attempting to pervert the course of justice…
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BBC News 18 May 10
The BBC has apologised after a radio presenter said the Queen had died. Danny Kelly who works for BBC WM in the West Midlands, played the national anthem as he made the joke during his Birmingham-based afternoon show…
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Advertiser 1 May 10
Sixth form pupils eager to forge a career in the media met BBC broadcaster Jeremy Vine last Monday (April 19) to get tips on making it in the media. The pupils from the Pool Hayes and Sneyd 6th Form Partnership met the presenter at Wolverhampton Community Radio, where he was broadcasting his Radio 2 show.
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B'ham Post 19 Apr 10
Black Country television presenter Adrian Chiles is quitting BBC1′s The One Show for a new four-year deal with ITV, it was announced today.The presenter – who was said to be unhappy at Chris Evans being drafted in to host the Friday night edition of his early evening show – will front GMTV and present ITV football coverage, also bringing to an end his association with Sunday night’s Match Of The Day 2.
And he blasted the decision to tinker with The One Show today: “I would have been happy to stay at the BBC doing the same shows on the same terms, especially The One Show, of which I am so proud, having worked on it since the first pilots four years ago.