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News
Express & Star 28 Feb 11
Pubs across the Black Country are challenging Sky TV’s grip on football by showing live Premier League matches beamed from abroad – and even advertising the screenings on hoardings.
The screenings breach UK copyright laws as they are not via authorised Premier League broadcasters BSkyB or ESPN but Portsmouth landlady Karen Murphy is challenging a conviction for screening Premier League games via a foreign broadcaster…
Comment
Nick Booth BBC News 23 Feb 11
Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, clearly seems to understand how hyperlocal bloggers can help hold power to account. He is telling local authorities to let them into meetings and allow them to film (or record?) those meetings.
Today’s news release says:
“Councils should open up their public meetings to local news ‘bloggers’ and routinely allow online filming of public discussions as part of increasing their transparency, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said today.
“To ensure all parts of the modern-day media are able to scrutinise Local Government, Mr Pickles believes councils should also open up public meetings to the ‘citizen journalist’ as well as the mainstream media, especially as important budget decisions are being made…
Business
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…
Business
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…
Feature
Carole Cadwalladr The Observer 30 Jan 11
I've always wanted a happy home. I've created that
Abandoned as a toddler, Goldie couldn’t have had a worse start in life. But today the Walsall born street-art pioneer, drum ‘n’ bass supremo, and TV star is an infectiously happy man. In a candid interview he talks about learning to love his mother, inspiring the next generation and why he’d rather dine with Kim Jong-il than Simon Cowell.
Has Goldie ever had an unexpressed thought? I’m not entirely sure. He’s just such a talker. He can talk and talk and talk, and two weeks after interviewing him, he rings me up when I’m in the supermarket, and for reasons that escape me, I agree to accompany him to a darkened basement off Oxford Street where, for the best part of 90 minutes, I feel like I’m about to die. Bikram, the extreme version of yoga, performed in a room heated to more than 100F, is Goldie’s latest enthusiasm, and although I do at one point wonder whether I’m having a cardiac episode, I come to understand why he does it: afterwards he’s strangely quiet and calm, like he’s been stunned by a tranquilliser dart. (I’m catatonic, but that’s another story)…
News
Nick McCarthy B'ham Mail 26 Jan 11
TV Licensing have revealed its 2010 figures, and that 23,100 people were caught watching TV illegally across the West Midlands.
Mark Whitehouse, TV Licensing spokesperson for the West Midlands, said: “We take TV Licence evasion very seriously, and any householder or business caught watching TV without a licence can face a prosecution and a fine of up to £1,000″…
News
B'ham Mail 12 Dec 10
Treyc Cohen, the former Walsall student from Tamworth, polled more votes than her X Factor sing-off rival Katie Waissel on the week she was booted out of the hit ITV show, voting figures released on Sunday night have revealed.
Cohen, a University of Wolverhampton student at Walsall campus who was handed a wildcard entry into the live shows by judge Cheryl Cole, left in week five after going head-to-head with Waissel, who had struggled to win over the audience in previous weeks…
Comment
Lee Jordan 5 Dec 10
Walsall residents rejoice in an early Christmas present.
We have Freeview HD! Coverage is not yet official as it’s being beamed into Birmingham only, recpetion is very hit and miss, but line up with Lichfield rather than Sutton and you could get 1080i pictures.
A year on from blogging of Freeview HD coming to the West Midlands ahead of Digital Switchover (DSO) scheduled for September 2011, Walsall has patchy but watchable free to air HD channels! I’m a huge fan of the BBC and would rather not pay on top of my TV licence for Sky.
My PVR was due for an upgrade, so I got the amazing Humax Fox DVR-T2, capable of much more than just Free HDTV!
When we say Free HD, free has a cost. The investment though will easily be made back in just over half a year, considering how much a Sky+HD subscription would set you back, plus you’re paying that ontop of the license fee. You’ll need new equipment…
Feature
Kathryn Knight Mail 5 Dec 10
In Korea, she’s a superstar. In China, she’s about to sing to 400 million. Oh, and George Clooney’s proposed to her. So why hasn’t Britain recognised ten-year-old Connie Talbot’s true talent?
Most parents will be wearily familiar with the frantic juggling required to maintain the schedule of the average modern miss.
Between their ten-year-old daughter’s netball practice and drama club and choir commitments, not to mention her schooling, Sharon and Gavin Talbot are forever shuttling back and forth from their home in trying to keep up…
News
Advertiser 2 Dec 10
A talented Walsall schoolgirl has landed her second major television after being cast for the new series of hit show Shameless.
Tegan Sheldon, aged eight, took to the small screen in August 2009 after being given a part in the BBC primetime show, Doctors. Now Tegan, who attends New Invention Junior School, will appear in the popular Channel 4 programme, due to air in February next year…