haha! 'Yawn'. I'll assume you're the Head of News at Reporting Scotland with that kind of contempt for someone's view on a programme! Be a bit more constructive. Tw*t
You assume wrong but it amuses me that you call me a 'name' but cannot quite bring yourself to typing it in full. You are worse than a child having a tantrum. Please do grow up and grasp the language by using more interesting words.
Jugalug - funniest post in a long time, well done.
Have to say BBC Scotland's response to the long list of problems with Reporting Scotland is as constructive as the programme itself.
Reporting Scotland concentrates on ticking every geographical box, whether there's a story in that area or not. Whereas Scotland Today can put the twee stuff only of interest to people in a micro-region ... in its micro-region reports, letting them get on with the important stuff for the rest of the bulletin. And STV always goes that one step further in its reporting as well. There's no competition.
If STV is like a rag on the box, then Reporting Scotland is like The Herald - no exclusives and filled with PA wire copy and reports on Scottish Ballet.
Very amusing Love the fact some people get so worked up about posts on this forum! Time to take a breath... forget about the virtual world and step outside for some fresh air.
I do find it sad that BBC Scotland is in such a sorry state. If I was in charge I would be deeply, deeply embarrassed. Put it this way - if someone asked the Head of News 'what makes Reporting Scotland so good?' could he/she seriously respond with any sort of credible answer? The presenters are all either of average or poor standard. The reporters are all either of average or poor standard (some with their strange accents and odd looks are frankly just weird) technical standards are terrible (and if you ask the great people at Pacific Quay why they respond with 'well we're still getting used to our new technology - technology which has been in use at all ITV stations (included STV) for some time now)
So to summarise my rant...Reporting Scotland is terrible. It needs...
*Far higher technical standards - the same level as network
*A major review of its news agenda and sourcing of stories
*A review of regional staffing so that we have proper stories from across the country rather than token stories
*Far higher presentation standards - people need to look good, sound good, have authority, be able to edit together a report and have on air confidence. If they can do this at STV they can sure do it at BBC Scotland!
The end.
Are you serious Sally Magnusson is excellent as is Jackie Bird .It's all about diffrent styles and a diffrent type of audience .
I am not sure why Stephen Jardine insists on digging at RPS on air i find that unacceptable and unprofessional .
STV Scotland Today is fantastic i prefer it to RPS . RPS is quite twee however i would not say the Presenters and Reporters are poor quite the opposite actually.Their news agenda and stories on RPS are quite poor but it's because it is the national news programme in Scotland and has to cover some stories that are quite boring and of no interest to viewers in the central belt and vice versa for viewers in the north.
Scotland Today is NOT the national news programme leading with the Donald Trump story last night which is about Aberdeenshire has NOTHING to do with the central belt that does annoy me about Scotland Today .
Here in Border TV land Lookaround is just so bad . STV News is far better than Borders.
Well said - we have differing views but you are a first class forum member as you conduct yourself professionally.
Although I don't like Scotland Today - Stephen is a very pleasant chap. I sat at a table next to him in a restaurant in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh about six years ago. We had a conversation and he was very charming and interesting to speak with.
You assume wrong but it amuses me that you call me a 'name' but cannot quite bring yourself to typing it in full. You are worse than a child having a tantrum. Please do grow up and grasp the language by using more interesting words.
The profanity filter on the board would have stopped the use of the word in full. This way he can still convey the word he wishes to use, rather than a string of * characters which could mean one of many four letter words.
haha! 'Yawn'. I'll assume you're the Head of News at Reporting Scotland with that kind of contempt for someone's view on a programme! Be a bit more constructive. Tw*t
This thread has gone a bit off topic.........It was started to say how FANTASTIC it was to see the Grampian name used again!!
When you have a conversation with somebody, do you suddenly say, 'hang on - we were talking about petrol prices a minute ago, we've gone off topic'? That topic has been exhausted, so following the natural flow of the thread, people are now talking about something different.
Love the fact some people get so worked up about posts on this forum! Time to take a breath... forget about the virtual world and step outside for some fresh air.
Sally Magnusson is excellent as is Jackie Bird .It's all about diffrent styles and a diffrent type of audience .