Report
11/10/2017
The closing date for entries is Friday 20th October 2017.
RTS Scotland launched the Student Television Awards for their twenty-third year in early October. Lecturers and their students from across Scotland were invited to learn more about these prestigious awards and how to enter, as well as to listen to speakers from the industry share their...
In Brief
27/09/2017
At the late-September session, acquisitions, commissioning, marketing, media law and scheduling – rather than running and researching or presenting and producing – were the subjects for discussion.
Jay Davidson described her route into commissioning as “convoluted”. The BBC Two and BBC Four assistant commissioner moved from record labels to Radio...
In Depth
18/08/2017
You can’t just get up one morning and decide to be an explorer.
Well, you can, but you’re not going to get on television with that attitude. You’ve got to jump through lots of hoops to get there and it’s not just a case of how many countries you’ve been to. You don’t have to join the Army to get into TV, but I think it’s good to have some level of...
In Brief
29/06/2017
The unification will aim to create a stronger partnership between the two skills and talent development organisations.
Richard Johnston, CEO of Endemol Shine UK and Creative Skillset’s Chair, commented, “Our TV and related sectors are thriving and in order to maintain our world leading position, generating huge value for the wider economy, a...
Report
20/06/2017
“YouTube is an amazing platform – you can build an audience and you know that they’re there to see you,” said football freestyler Daniel Cutting. “I don’t think my audience – kids between 8 and 13 or 14 – watch TV.”
He has more than 250,000 YouTube subscribers and more than half a million Instagram followers watching his football tricks. “On TV...