SCOTLAND MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2009/10 A INTRODUCTION FROM NATIONAL DIRECTOR A DIFFICULT AND CHALLENGING YEAR HAS, HOWEVER, ALSO BEEN ONE OF TREMENDOUS ACHIEVEMENT, CHARACTERISED BY LANDMARK PROGRAMMES AND INCREASED BBC INVESTMENT IN BROADCASTING IN SCOTLAND. Audiences are at the heart of all of our broadcasting and, across 2009/2010, we looked to ensure that the many diverse needs and tastes of our viewers and listeners were met, on television, radio and online. Across the month of September the This is Scotland season on BBC Four showcased the best of our nation’s culture, arts and music before a UK audience and the second part of Scotland’s History broadcast to critical acclaim at the turn of the year, on BBC One Scotland, network and on the BBC HD channel. Our news teams continued to bring the best local, national and international journalism to radio, television and online audiences across Scotland, from local reporting on the winter weather chaos “AGAINST A DIFFICULT FINANCIAL BACKDROP, BBC to coverage of the release of the Lockerbie bomber, which brought with it a prestigious Royal NETWORK BUSINESS IN SCOTLAND HAS CONTINUED Television Society award. The BBC’s Network Supply Review saw several key programmes transfer to Scotland during the TO INCREASE, AND WE ARE NOW STARTING TO course of the year. The Review Show and The Weakest Link both began filming in our studios atP acific REALISE THE FULL POTENTIAL OF OUR DIGITAL Quay in Glasgow. They joined a slate of new productions, across genres, which have helped boost BBC network investment in Scotland to over 6% of the total BBC spend, meeting the 2012 target TELEVISION AND RADIO STUDIOS AT PACIFIC QUAY set for us in 2007 by the Director-General and the BBC Trust. AND OUR DRAMA FACILITIES AT DUMBARTON.” I’m delighted to report that our studios have never been busier – and that has been good news for our in-house teams, for independent production companies and for the creative industry sector KEN MACQUARRIE, DIRECTOR, SCOTLAND across Scotland. COVER IMAGE Radio Scotland’s Sportsound presenter Richard Gordon examines the oldest football in the world, part of a family-friendly Relic Trail of historical objects inspired by our History of the World project, and which can be seen at the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. See www.smithartgallery.demon.co.uk Ken MacQuarrie 01 INTRODUCTION FROM 18 KEY PRIORITIES FOR Director, Scotland NATIONAL DIRECTOR NEXT YEAR 02 TWO-MINUTE SUMMARY 19 CONTACTS 04 SERVICE PERFORMANCE 20 MANAGEMENT 12 LOOKING AHEAD B 1 BBC SCOTLAND’S LOCAL WEEKLY REACH IN SCOTLAND TWO-MINUTE SUMMARY TELEVISION HOURS % TELEVISION Genre BBC One Arts 6.45 Comedy 11. 59 07/08 78.1 Current Affairs 177.12 08/09 77.7 Drama 51.61 09/10 77.1 Entertainment 5.91 BBC Two Factual 40.40 Factual Entertainment 12.13 07/08 57.0 Music Performance 22.57 08/09 56.2 News and Weather 315.35 09/10 55.4 Religion/Beliefs 1.86 Sport 164.20 BBC ALBA Total 809.19 08/09 (Sept 08–March 09) 5.5% (220,000) Repeats 306.07 09/10 4.3% (180,000) 1,640,000 Total hours 1,115.26 The number of unique users who access BBC Scotland’s News Scotland website each week. WEEKLY REACH IN SCOTLAND BBC SCOtland’s radio hours % RADIO BBC Radio Scotland 8,400 BBC Radio nan Gàidheal 250,000 Repeats 1,600 07/08 68.0 The number of requests to view, via the BBC iPlayer, received both by Limmy’s Show and by Total hours 10,000 Gary Tank Commander. BBC Radio nan Gàidheal 3,255 08/09 69.0 Repeats 913 09/10 68.6 Total hours 4,168 74.6% BBC Radio Scotland The percentage of qualifying hours of originated programming on BBC ALBA supplied by BBC SCOTLAND’S NETWORK 07/08 21.4 independent production companies. TELEVISION HOURS 08/09 26.6 Total hours 422 09/10 21.2 2 BBC ALBA TELEVISION HOURS TV HIGHLIGHTS The Sony Awards – Gold and Bronze – won in 2009/10 by broadcaster Edi Stark for her work News and current Affairs 183 The This Is Scotland season on BBC Four in September 2009 for BBC Radio Scotland Other BBC funded programmes 27 celebrated Scotland’s art, culture and history. It increased the channel’s reach by 6% and contributed two of the BBC funded programmes 210 channel’s top five programmes that month. Further facts and figures for 2009/10 available at bbc.co.uk/scotland/info/ Partner (MG ALBA) funded programmes 443 Total hours 653 RADIO HIGHLIGHTS Desperate Fishwives, the Aberdeen-based comedy sketch Repeats 1868 show, found a new audience on BBC 7 and is now being Total hours 2521 filmed for a television pilot for BBC Scotland. ONLINE HIGHLIGHTS Former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen featured in BBC Scotland’s first A‘ uthors Live’ event, webcast to an estimated online audience of over 100,000 schoolchildren. Future events, in partnership with the Scottish Book Trust, will include Julia Donaldson, Jacqueline Wilson, Charlie Higson, Philip Pullman and Eoin Colfer. 2 3 SERVICE PERFORMANCE FROM AWARD-WINNING DRAMAS AND DOCUMENTARIES TO Scotland INNOVATIVE CHILDREN’S GAME SHOWS AND FRESH NEW COMEDY TALENT, BBC SCOTLAND’S CREATIVE OUTPUT ON TV, RADIO AND ONLINE EXCELLED ACROSS THE YEAR. BBC ALBA is broadcast from Scotland to the whole of the UK on satellite. TELEVISION Reporting Scotland and Newsnight Scotland were Power of Scotland. Jackie Bird travelled to The Buckfast Code investigated the links between In News, Reporting Scotland’s audience increased both in the vanguard of media coverage of Afghanistan in February, to report on the tonic wine and violent crime. for the second year in a row. More than the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Glenn Scottish medics running the main field hospital For network, the Panorama investigation 477,000 now watch each weekday at 6.30pm, Campbell won one of TV’s most prestigious at Camp Bastion. Her live reports featured on into Britain’s Homecare Scandal won a Scottish compared to an average audience of 465,000 News awards – the Royal Television Society’s Reporting Scotland and in the documentary BAFTA and prompted a parliamentary motion in 2008. Award for ‘Scoop of the Year’ – for breaking For Care and Duty. that applauded it for being “in the finest Nearly one million people tuned in on 4 January the story. Throughout the year Business Editor Douglas tradition of investigative journalism.” as blizzards and freezing conditions swept In June 2009, BBC Scotland marked a decade of Fraser provided analysis of the ongoing A strong year for factual programming included across the country. For more than a week our devolution with a live televised debate and Brian economic crises, with a particular focus a number of highlights. The This is Scotland TV news coverage provided vital information Taylor’s documentary, Holyrood and the Search on the Scottish financial sector. season on BBC Four offered programmes as and live reports from around Scotland to huge for Scotland’s Soul. BBC Scotland’s Investigations Unit ran a number varied as Rory Bremner and the Fighting Scots, audiences watching on BBC One. In December 2009, we focused on renewable of high profile reports.The Millionaire Thieves Peter Capaldi’s Portrait of Scotland and Off Kilter, energy in the run up to the Copenhagen revealed how organised crime makes millions Jonathan Meades’ idiosyncratic and provocative Conference and Hayley Millar investigated from shoplifting, Hash in the Attic examined view of Scotland and the Scots. Scotland’s renewable energy potential in the growing problem of cannabis farming and 1 2 1. Arifa Farooq went undercover to expose systemic failings at the heart of Britain’s domiciliary care system in Panorama: Britain’s Home Care Scandal. 2. Peter Capaldi’s Portrait of Scotland considered how Scotland’s art has reflected the changing face of the nation. 4 5 SERVICE PERFORMANCE CONTINUED December saw the second half of the BAFTA Mark Beaumont’s latest epic journey took him In drama, Hope Springs, from Shed Productions, The World Pipe Band Championships online award-winning series A History of Scotland from the heights of Mount McKinlay in Alaska charted the travails of four women on the run videostream attracted over 46,000 hits from transmit on BBC One Scotland, repeated on to Ushuaia in southern Argentina, a journey of and hiding out in a small Scottish town and viewers across the UK, US, the Commonwealth BBC Two network and on the BBC HD channel. some 13,000 miles and all of it played out daily Personal Affairs offered offbeat drama for and Europe. The Edinburgh Military Tattoo th Jimmy’s Food Factory was a huge hit, with nearly in two-way conversation with our audiences via BBC Three. offered, in part, a tribute to Burns on the 250 six million viewers on BBC One network, the social networking sites. Cycling the Americas was Wallander, the award winning adaptation of anniversary of his birth; songs, poems and acts highest rated science format on the channel. broadcast in March on BBC One. the Henning Mankel novels, set in Sweden from as far afield as Tonga and China featured in Global Harvest played well on BBC Two, where Around 20% of all of the BBC’s Children’s and starring Kenneth Branagh, proved a hit the BBC One network broadcast. Simon King’s Shetland Diaries also peaked with an programming is commissioned from Scotland, with audiences on BBC One: a third series In November 2009, Children In Need once audience of 3.2 million.