Scotland’s South Ayrshire Council in Prestwick, near Glasgow, has started formal submissions to see its existing airport converted and expanded to allow for space-based activity as part of the Prestwick Spaceport development. The formal Proposal of Application Notice (POAN) is the first step in the planning process for Prestwick Spaceport and signals the intent to […]
As the series celebrates the end of its inaugural season, Extreme E has its attention firmly fixed on 2022 as it unveils its Season 2 calendar.The sport for purpose championship takes place in off-road locations as part of its mission to drive awareness of climate change issues, such as global warming, melting ice caps, rising […]
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has announced that Muriel Gray has been appointed as a non-executive director on the BBC Board. Gray will be the Scotland member on the Board and serve a term of four years. Gray is the former Chair of the Board of Governors at The Glasgow School Of […]
Premier Sports and Amazon have agreed a distribution deal that will see all five channels under the Premier Sports umbrella made available to residential customers on Prime Video Channels in the UK – Premier Sports 1, Premier Sports 2, LaLigaTV, FreeSports and BoxNation. Amazon Prime members can access all five channels as an add-on subscription […]
Orbex, a private, small satellite launch services provider, has started construction of its first launch platform – the first orbital space launchpad to be built in the UK for more than half a century. Orbex says it has commissioned Motive Offshore Group, a Scottish company specialising in the design and manufacture of marine and lifting […]
Singular.live, a provider of cloud-based technology for live graphic overlays, and Reality Check Systems (RCS), the graphics, control solutions and data integrations company, have announced their collaboration with QTV to enrich the Scottish Professional Football League’s (SPFL) matchday graphics with enhanced live Stats Perform match data. Independent Scottish production house QTV, the SPFL’s outside broadcast […]
Seventy per cent of people across Europe are willing to change their behaviour to address the climate crisis according to research published by Sky and the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT). Using behavioural science techniques, Sky and BIT set out ten new behavioural science principles to guide broadcasters on helping their viewers to take action. The […]
Extreme E has welcomed the announcement by the UK Government that it intends to invest £1 million in its proposed off-road race on the Outer Hebrides in 2022. The announcement today in the House of Commons follows productive discussions with the UK Government, the Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and other key stakeholders over several months. […]
The UK’s key broadcasters are hosting a series of events from COP26 in Glasgow this November. The events will showcase the collaborative work of the broadcasters over the past decade through BAFTA’s albert – the screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability which aims to reduce the environmental impacts of production and empower creatives to produce […]
To celebrate the return of season 3 of Succession, streaming service NOW is bringing a slice of the Roy family’s dysfunctionality to the UK with a Succession-inspired football ‘takeover’ in Edinburgh. In the last season of the hit show, Roman Roy (played by Kieran Culkin) buys the Scottish football club Hearts to impress his father […]