Friday, 27 May 2011

Misleading Journalism

This type of journalism really annoys me. It gives journalists a bad name. The headline in this Metro article is 'We'll Stuff Take That!' and yet if you read the quote from the The Wanted in the article below, you'll see that it has nothing in common with the headline. They say: "We want to be big or bigger than Take That", not we'll stuff them or we'll be bigger than them. A trivial example I know, but far too often newspaper headlines simply do not fit with the stories. Poor journalism.

Thursday, 19 May 2011

Pride Park

It was BBC Radio Derby's 40th birthday last month and we've been marking it by looking back at some of the key events in Derbyshire and East Staffordshire over the last four decades. I made a package on Derby County's move from the Baseball Ground to Pride Park in 1997. I went along to the recent home game against Hull where I took this photo and recorded lots of natural sound which included the fans going through the turnstiles and crowds chanting. You can listen to my package by clicking here.

The first football match I ever went to was at the Baseball Ground with my dad. We slipped in at half time for free and stood on the terraces. Pride Park is a fantastic place to watch football thanks partly to the fact that Derby County are still able to attract 25,000 fans to every home game despite this being a disappointing season. You can listen to some of the other BBC Radio Derby 40th anniversary packages here.

Monday, 9 May 2011

BBC Radio Derby, Sony Station of The Year...Again!

BBC Radio Derby has tonight been named Sony Station of The Year for an unprecedented third time in five years (and second year in a row)! It makes all the hard work everyone at the station puts in worth it. It may not look state of the art, but we create award winning radio in this former car show room. Click here to read what the judges said about us. Here's the video of our team collecting the award...