07·07·09 Week 27 explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel THE BBC NEWSPAPER THE GLOVE, THE POSTERS AND ALL THAT TAT. MAKING A BUCK OUT OF JACKO a Page 15 photograph : micheal donne Music in the key of love NEW YORK may ◆have fallen at Claire Martin’s feet after her recent concerts, but it was the jazz singer and Radio 3 presenter who dropped to her knee to propose to BBC Sussex, Surrey and Solent’s Phil Jackson Page 5 Salford leads Radio worried Taking the flak to ‘jobs agency’ about deadline and the mickey THE NEXT GROUP of people whose THE GOVERNMENT wants to switch TIRA SHUBART’S colleagues might ◆jobs are going to Salford have voted ◆off analogue radio in 2015. That’s set ◆have been shocked when she 40 percent in favour and 60 percent off a storm of debate even though the revealed she was writing a comedy based against the move. An internal ‘recruitment BBC has been a champion for DAB. Six on the exploits of foreign correspondents. agency’ will try to match skills with years may be a long time in broadcast On the contrary, they were almost vacancies in north and south. Page 3 technology but is it long enough? Page 10 queuing up to give her the gossip Page 7 > NEED TO KNOW 2 WEEK AT WORK 8-9 OPINION 10 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 GREEN ROOM 16 < 216 News aa 00·00·08 07·07·09 NEED TO KNOW THE WEEK’S esseNTIALS NEWS BITES a THE BBC has been given a platinum ranking in the Business It’s a big pot but not that big in the Community’s corporate responsibility index: a step up Room 2316, White City from its gold ranking last year. The u AnotHer week, anotHer storY about the index is the UK’s leading voluntary 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS ‘bloated’ BBC. This time the focus is on the pen- corporate responsibility benchmark. sions accrued by some top execs. The Sunday 020 8008 4228 Times reignited the issue with a front page report PUblication OF The Terrorist claiming that deputy director general Mark Byford Hunters, co-written by former BBC Editor is in line for a pension of ‘at least £229,500 a year’ home affairs correspondent Margaret Andrew Harvey 02-84222 and that his total pot is valued ‘at almost £8m’. The Gilmore and Andy Hayman, ex-head Deputy editors BBC has strongly disputed the interpretation; it of UK counter-terrorism, has been Sally Hillier 02-26877 says the figures used are ‘a distortion of the facts’ blocked following an injunction Cathy Loughran 02-27360 and ‘wildly exaggerated’. from the attorney general. The book Features editor As the 2008 annual report and accounts reveal, gives an account of the terrorist Clare Bolt 02-27445 Byford’s pension is actually worth £193,000 a threat to the UK in the past five Reporters year, and has a total value of £2.76m – not to be years. Reasons for the injunction Carla Parks 02-27630 sniffed at but far short of £8m. cannot be given for legal reasons. Laura Scarrott 02-84224 The reason that Byford and creative direc- Peggy Walker 01-43940 tor Alan Yentob, who is also singled out by the THE Trotter family, stars of Only Production editor Sunday Times, can look forward to prosperous Fools And Horses, will return in a Claire Barrett 02-27368 retirements is that both have worked for the BBC new 90-minute comedy-drama Art editor for many years – more than 40 in Yentob’s case – to be shown next year. Written Ken Sinyard 02-84229 and their final salaries, on which their pensions by John Sullivan and produced Ariel online are calculated, will be exceptionally high. jointly by his company Shazam Andy Walker (editor) 02-84227 There is no ‘special’ pensions fund for execs: Productions and BBC comedy, the Alex Goodey 02-27410 the same formula is used to calculate all pen- special will look back at life with Business co-ordinator sions in the BBC’s final salary scheme, which the Trotters during the 1960s. Silvana Romana 02-84228 is widely recognised as one of the best in the UK. the agenda of the Radio Festival, because the Ariel mail organisers didn’t want any negative pre-pub- Robin Hood will not be [email protected] u Visitors to THE BBC website now have no licity, so his appearance came as a surprise. He recommissioned. It averaged Ariel online expore.gateway.bbc.uk/ariel choice whether they view the international or had been let out of nick for the day to talk about between four and five million UK versions. Previously, all users had the option his experiences at Electric Radio Brixton, which viewers during its third and final Guest contributors this week of viewing either version by clicking a button at won Sony gold for listener participation. series but attracted around 1.7m the top of the homepage. Now everyone in the Sentenced to four years for drug related viewers for the last episode. JAMES CRIDLAND gets the technical UK gets the UK site, and everyone else, the inter- offences, Tis explained how thrilled he had lowdown at the Radio Festival Page 6 national site – there is no option to switch. been, on being transferred to Brixton prison THE BBC received more than 700 rowan bridGE of Radio 5 Live finds So why the change? The main reason is from Pentonville, to find that it had its own radio complaints over its coverage of it’s all tat as the ‘entrepreneurs’ advertising: the website carries ads internation- station, and provided training in radio. ‘This im- Michael Jackson’s death, with come out in force in LA after the king ally but not in the UK. This necessitated four ver- proved my vocabulary and my communication many viewers saying that the story of pop’s untimely death Page 15 sions of the site – international and UK, with and skills and my confidence increased,’ he said. did not warrant the prominence without ads (a user in the US, for example, would All very commendable. So where did prison or the scale of coverage. see the ads whether they were looking at the radio start? Well, not in this country but at the BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 international or UK version). state penitentiary, Huntsville, Texas way back DAVid THOMpson’S production Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 There were also issues relating to some video in 1938. It wasn’t until 1994 that it caught on in company Origin Pictures, together BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 content being available only in the UK. Website Britain – at Feltham young offender institution. with BBC Films, has secured the film Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS editor Steve Herrmann says that these many The Prison Radio Association was created in rights to William Boyd’s new novel permutations ‘were impractical as well as 2006 and Electric Radio Brixton, a mix of music Ordinary Thunderstorms prior to its Advertise in Ariel expensive’, and were holding back development. and chat, broadcast within the walls of HMP publication in September. Thompson Ten Alps Publishing 020 7878 2314 Now new technology is being used to determine Brixton, in 2007. is a former head of BBC Films. www.bbcarielads.com a user’s location, selecting the appropriate site In a lively Radio Festival session, Paul automatically. Herrmann stresses that the same McDowell, governor of Brixton, explained that World SerVice is now offering Printing content is still available on both sites. prison radio was a useful educational and reha- audiences in Moldova a Romanian Garnett Dickinson Group bilitation tool. He admitted, though, that there language news and current Rotherham 01709 768000 u IT’S not EVerY daY that a prison inmate is lined were some inmates who would never be allowed affairs programme, which airs up to speak at a media conference, but that’s what on air. ‘The one thing I’m not going to do is put weekly. This is an addition to the Subscribe to Ariel happened in Nottingham last week. Ian Huntley on radio,’ he said. English, Russian and Ukrainian Six months: £26, £36, £40 In fact, Tis (surname not revealed) wasn’t on Will digital switchover happen? P10 language output provided by Twelve months: £50, £60, £68 World Service to Moldova. (prices for UK, Europe, rest of world respectively) Horrible Histories on CBBC Cheques to: Garnett Dickinson Print, ARIEL ONLINE EDITOR’S UPDATE has been recommissioned for a Brookfields Way, Manvers, second series of 13 programmes. Wath Upon Dearne, Rotherham S63 5DL Based on the books by Terry Tel 01709 768199 Oh, I say – what a great service at Wimbledon Deary, the first series was one of the most requested children’s INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY And so, For THE First tiME in Years, those The Royle Family, has decided to give up acting at the programmes on iPlayer in May. Telephone 0800 0688 159 hazy (sometimes), lazy (I should coco), crazy age of 89, following a stroke in January. Ceefax Page 159 www.bbc.co.uk/159 (probably) days of summer are back and with them We also covered the worldwide journeyings of Radio 2 will host Thank You for Ariel is produced by Internal some big stories for Ariel online. the BBC News Box, a branded container which has the Music… A Celebration of the Communications for people at the BBC In that vein, we’ve been reporting on the tremen- been sailing the seven seas highlighting the grow- Music of Abba in Hyde Park on dous popularity of the BBC’s coverage of the Wim- ing importance and complexity of globalisation September 13.