Sunday Round Up: BBC, The X Factor, Facebook, .scot, Spotify, The Good Pub Guide
This week's round of Sunday media news includes the BBC's replacment for traiditional Christian terms, jobs cuts expected at BBC Scotland, a contestant quitting the X Factor and a 'mockumentary' about estate agents.
The BBC is being accused of taking political correctness too far as it attempts to avoid offending non-Christians by dropping the use of the terms ‘BC’ and ‘AD’. The Mail on Sunday claims that some of the corporation’s most popular shows have replaced the terms with new ones – ‘Common Era’ and ‘Before Common Era’.
The BBC is also set to axe up to 160 jobs in Scotland, reports Scotland on Sunday, as it aims to save £16m a year. The cuts, to be announced in October, could see BBC Scotland stop broadcasting overnight, with cuts also faced by weekly soap opera River City and factual programming.
The Facebook – Spotify tie up will spread music at a faster rate, claims the online music provider’s chief product officer, speaking to the Sunday Telegraph. Gustav Soderstrom has claimed that the partnership will mean that artist’s work will be heard at a much faster rate all around the world.
The Scottish Government has called on Scotland to handed it's own internet domain name, .scot having set up a not-for-profit company two year ago to push the motion. The BBC reports that Dot Scot Registry was founded to push for the creation of the domain name, with the UK government now being asked to support it.
A ‘mockumentary’ about estate agents, portraying them as being ‘greedy’ and ‘liars’, made by an estate agent, has become an online hit. The film ‘Under Offer’ contains fly-on-the-wall scenes, says the Mail on Sunday, and was created by the owner of an estate agency.
The Mail on Sunday also reports that pubs looking for a write up in the Good Pub Guide, must pay £200 each. The fee for next year’s guide has risen from £99 for a basic piece, leading to a ‘revolt’ by landlords, the paper claims.
The Sunday Mirror says that one of the contestants of The X Factor has withdrawn, as she doesn’t wish to be seen as a ‘national laughing stock’. Goldie has apparently left the competition, despite being put through to the Boot Camp stage, after a series of ‘wacky’ performances.