Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2012
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120 new members of the 2012 BBC Academy Production Talent Pool
Members of the Production Talent Pool for 2012 at a networking event in the BBC Media Village. Editor's Note - Simon Smith is the Manager of Creativity and Special Projects in the BBC Academy. In this post, he writes about the new intake of young creative talent who have won places in the ...
Bruce Forsyth participates in the Olympic Torch Relay at BBC White City
Strictly Come Dancing presenter Sir Bruce Forsyth carried the Olympic Torch through the BBC White City Media Village today receiving the torch from international banker Antoine de Navacelle (great nephew of Pierre de Coubertin who organised the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896) on the site...
Different ways to listen and watch the BBC's Olympics 2012 coverage
Wimbledon may be over, but the time for strawberries and cream in the BBC Distribution office is short. I wrote in May about how we were working on delivering to you the BBC's greatest year of broadcasting and I wanted to let you know how our final preparations are going. I think there are a ...
Recording your favourite television programmes during the Olympics
A collection of TV remote controls, photographed by Flickr user Odonata98 and used here under the terms of Creative Commons. With less than one week to go before the Opening Ceremony I wanted to take a few minutes to make sure you understood the details about recording your favourite shows ...
More on the BBC and service companies
Following recent press speculation, Chief Financial Officer Zarin Patel clarified the BBCs position in relation to the use of Personal Service Companies and tax affairs in general in an all staff email sent on July 23rd. Dear all, I wanted to take the opportunity to correct misleading repor...
The Olympic Games, broadcast innovation and Super Hi-Vision
The television control room at BBC Broadcasting Centre, Wembley for the1948 Olympic Games, held in London where pictures from the Empire Pool and Empire Stadium were switched before being transmitted to Alexandra Palace. 'May the weather be fine, the events well contested, and may records b...
Olympic rights, sport and the BBC
It's a big day for BBC Sport. The fact that we've won exclusive broadcast and digital rights to the next four Olympic Games - two winter and two summer games - means not just that Olympic action will be on the BBC into the 2020s, but that we have secured one of the last pieces in a portfolio of ...
Bigger and better partnerships
Andrew Tomlinson, Executive Producer, Media Literacy, BBC Learning, blogs about The Give an Hour campaign. If, like we're told, delegation is an art, then BBC Learning deserves the Turner Prize. Over the last three months we've persuaded hundreds of thousands of people to give an hour of thei...
Two stories about BBC Radio 1 - Chris Moyles and Nick Grimshaw
Today there are two stories about BBC Radio 1. Chris Moyles announcing that his record breaking show is coming to an end. And Nick Grimshaw is the new presenter of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. I've known Chris since he walked into Radio 1 in 1997. I was his producer on the Early Breakfast Show...
The BBC and service companies
You may have seen reports recently about how the BBC pays some presenters and other specialist staff, suggesting that there is something underhand about our procedures. Nothing could be further from the truth and I want to explain clearly and simply why this is the case. At the BBC, there are ...