Podcasting the BBC 2
Last month I asked why the BBC aren’t podcasting more Northern Ireland news and current affairs. Last Friday saw the second NI News Briefing podcast. Which is a good start.
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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review » -
“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review »
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Speaking of podcasts, what happened to Slugger Radio which I can vaguely remember. Used to get the podcasts off itunes.
Good for a laugh considering the deafening screeching sound and on the itunes podcasts everyone involved clearly didnt know the tape was still rolling.
Never mind podcasting what really pi**es me off is that as a Virgin cable user here in London I can get BBC 1 NI, great for the news but little else I am afraid. So far so good can I get BBC2 NI can I heck and where does BBC NI in its infinate wisdom put all the Gaelic football etc you got it BBC2 NI IDIOTS !”!
I know this is completely unrelated and I apologise, but what exactly does this article say about the knowledge of the author???
http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2007/05/29/platform-piece-on-victims-issues-by-derek-hussey/
This guy used to represent that area and he doesn’t even know how many years ago the Omagh bomb took place.
You can’t even pass it off as a typo – its a simple issue of facts.
To “overhere”… The majority of BBC NI programming is on BBC ONE NI which makes your statement that it’s “great for the news but little else I’m afraid” incorrect.
The problem you’re having is that Virgin Media only supplies BBC ONE NI, and not BBC TWO NI. This is not the fault of the BBC so why you’re accusing them of being “idiots” is rather beyond me.
Marksi
Keep your hair on. Do you happen to work for the BBC please read the relevant section taken from my original post
“where does BBC NI in its infinate wisdom put all the Gaelic football etc you got it BBC2 NI IDIOTS”
What I am complaining about is BBC NI in its infinate wisdom showing a sport a large section of the population follow being relegated to BBC2 NI
Does this answer your “beyound me” situation ?
Interested, the date on the piece is wrong, that piece was published in the week of the 8th anniversary
I’ve re-read your original post, overhere.
It is written as though you’re complaining that you personally can’t see GAA coverage.
Recently the Ulster final was shown on BBC ONE NI.
Do you complain when RTÉ “relegates” it’s GAA coverage on RTÉ TWO rather than ONE?
Apart from Virgin Media customers in England, Scotland and Wales, both channels are available to all viewers. Your description of it as “relegated” sounds more like a political point than a broadcasting one.