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	Scotland - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		In 1603, the Scottish King James VI inherited the throne of England, and became James I of England.
		The Scottish Reformation, initiated in 1560 and led by John Knox, was Calvinist, and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the Church of Scotland maintained a strict theology and kept a tight control over the morality of the population.
		Scottish sundial — the renaissance sundials of Scotland.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/c/o/Scotland.html (5679 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Scottish Media Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SMG, the owner of STV and Virgin Radio, is understood to have reopened merger talks with Belfast-based Ulster Television, just over a week after the deal appeared to have collapsed.
		SMG is facing further shareholder pressure to reach a deal with UTV after talks between the two companies appeared to have stalled.
		SMG is set to appoint headhunters to search for a new chief executive early this month, but...
	business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=548 (398 words)

	Scottish Media
		Scottish Media and Guardian Media are planning to sell their combined 35% stake in GMTV, which could result in Carlton Communications and Granada taking full control of the breakfast TV station.
		Scottish Media Group is planning to close its Sky Scottish TV channel as it has failed to meet growth targets.
		Scottish Media, which is acquiring Grampian Television for £105m, wants to loosen its ties with ITV as Scottish devolution gathers pace, but would retain an affiliate status that enables it to select programmes that are most suitable for Scottish viewers.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /sca44729.htm (506 words)

	Scottish media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scottish media has a long and distinct history.
		Much of the output of BBC Scotland Television, such as most news, current affairs and sport programmes, and the Glasgow-based soap opera, River City, are intended for broadcast within Scotland, whilst others, for example many drama and comedy programmes, aim at audiences throughout the United Kingdom and worldwide markets.
		Although they previously had independent existences, Scottish TV (serving the Central Lowlands) and Grampian (serving the Highlands and Islands) now belong to the same company (SMG plc) and resemble each other closely, apart from local news coverage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_media (486 words)

	Scottish Media group is to set up family of websites. www.HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scottish Media group is to set up family of websites.
		The Scottish Media group, publisher of the Glasgow Evening Times, The Herald and Sunday Herald, is to set up a family of websites, phased in over 18 months.
		The group - soon to be known as SMG plc - also owns Scottish and Grampian Television, outdoor and cinema advertising firms and also bought Chris Evans' firm, Ginger Media, recently for £225million.
	www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk /news/2000/02feb/000224sc.shtml (157 words)

	BECTU News - Strike notice for Scottish Media
		Scottish Media Group management, meeting the unions in Glasgow on Monday February 21, rejected a call for the threat of compulsory redundancy to be lifted from staff in order to allow talks on redeployment and retraining.
		The disagreement between the unions and SMG had begun with a proposal from management that pay freezes or cuts should be imposed on roughly 100 staff, and that 7 posts in production should be closed in Glasgow and Aberdeen.
		The Scottish Pariament's Culture Committee has announced an inquiry into the record of Scottish and Grampian TV in meeting their licence obligations to provide high quality, locally produced, programming in their areas.
	www.bectu.org.uk /news/ib/ni0045.html (328 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scottish Media Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		ADVISERS to SMG and UTV are in talks over a possible £400m merger of the two media companies.
		SMG, owner of the STV television franchise and Virgin radio, today confirmed that it had received...
		SMG, the Glasgow-based media group, is facing excruciating pressure from investors as it begins...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=548 (483 words)

	MediaGuardian.co.uk \| Media \| Board claims victory at Scottish Media Group
		Fidelity, which owns 15% of SMG, is understood to be "supportive" of the board's efforts, although the fund manager is known to be sympathetic to Mr Woodward's strategy for overhauling the Glasgow-based group.
		Sources close to SMG claimed that all the group's leading institutional shareholders were backing its stance, apart from SVG Capital, which represents 4% of the shares and backs Mr Woodward.
		SMG owns the two ITV licences for Scotland, but ITV has repeatedly stated it has no interest in buying the franchises because it already sells their advertising slots.
	media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,,1825700,00.html (347 words)

	Media Week
		Television MW,Radio MW The Scottish Media Group, owner of Virgin Radio and Scottish TV, says its performance this year will be broadly in line with expectations, despite difficult times in the advertising industry.
		In its latest trading report to investors, the Scottish broadcaster said it believed revenues and audience figures at Scottish TV and Grampian TV would outperform the rest of the ITV Network during the year.
		SMG's cinema advertising division, Pearl and Dean, is expecting a strong performance this quarter thanks largely to high cinema turnout for blockbusters such as Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire.
	www.mediaweek.co.uk /news/index.cfm?fuseaction=details&nnewsID=532344 (190 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| Evans sells up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scottish Media has confirmed that Evans has agreed a price tag of £225m for Ginger - which includes Virgin Radio and Ginger Television, producer of Channel 4's TFI Friday and the BBC's Red Alert lottery programme.
		Scottish Media Group chairman Don Cruikshank said the Scottish company would now become "a leading player in UK media".
		The group, which owns Scottish Television and the Glasgow Herald, fought off other bidders including Clear Channel, the US media group, NRJ, the French radio group, and Guardian Media, publisher of the Guardian newspaper.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/601640.stm (560 words)

	Articles \| Scottish Media Monitor \| Examining the treatment of sexuality in the Scottish media
		The Scottish Mail, proclaiming itself "the favourite newspaper of Britain's leading businessmen" claimed: "It was his Christian duty to support moves to retain Section 28." Then allowed him to let off a tirade of militant gobbledegook: "As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of marriage and that the traditional family unit is critically important.
		Robbie Dinwoodie, their Scottish political correspondent explained: "In keeping with the way the whole campaign has been run, news of the development was given only to newspapers which have given editorial support to the campaign to halt the repeal of Section 28...
		In the Scottish Mail, Katie Grant was full of praise for the "nimble feet" of the SNP for shifting their position "to support statutory guidelines." Yes, guidelines that support the 'stable family' and not the 'one man, one woman' one the tabloid Ms Grant works for wanted.
	www.scottishmediamonitor.com /articles2.cfm?ID=64 (15559 words)

	The Ultimate Scotland Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country or nation and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom.
		Slightly greater than 1% of the population use Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic language similar to Irish, as their language of everyday use, primarily in the northern and western regions of the country.
		In 1707, the Scottish and English Parliaments signed the Treaty of Union, which was deeply unpopular in Scotland, as it had been negotiating from a position of economic weakness and suffering from English tariffs.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Scotland (4206 words)

	C21Media: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Don Cruickshank, non-executive chairman of Scottish Media Group and one of the architects of the rapid expansion that left the media group loaded with debt, has confirmed today he will step down following the company's annual general meeting, scheduled for June 4, 2004.
		SMG has appointed executive search consultants, Whitehead Mann, to recruit Cruickshank's replacement, who will be named before the AGM.
		Cruickshank's arrival on the board in June 1999 was seen as increasing the group’s chances of remaining independent after ITV heavyweight Granada bought an 18.6% stake in SMG from Mirror Group.
	www.c21media.net /news/detail.asp?article=19036&area=1 (232 words)

	Scottish Parliament will not probe media job cuts - Press Gazette
		The Scottish Parliament has decided not to hold an inquiry into the recent spate of media job cuts north of the border.
		Scotland's media job-loss tally has increased recently, with up to 80 mainly non-editorial jobs shed at Scotsman Publications since it was bought by Johnston Press from the Barclay Brothers.
		NUJ journalists on the group's three newspapers — The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News — have accepted a 2.6 per cent pay rise, which amounts to 3 per cent when coupled with a review of merit salary grades.
	www.pressgazette.co.uk /?t=article&l=scottish_parliament_will_not_probe_media_job_cuts (382 words)

	Salmond criticises Scottish Media sale
		GRANADA's purchase of 19pc of Scottish Media Group ran into turbulence yesterday when Alex Salmond, Scottish Nationalist leader, said he would ask the Prime Minister to give a government view on the matter "before the Scottish elections".
		Mr Salmond, whose party is just ahead of Labour in Scottish opinion polls, said there was cross-party concern about the loss of quoted company headquarters in Scotland, particularly in sensitive areas such as media and clearing banks.
		Mr Salmond said he had opposed Scottish Media's takeover of Grampian but would rather have it running TV and newspapers in Scotland "than a Manchester media group".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/03/26/cnscot26.html (254 words)

	Digital Media and Creative Industries \| People \| Workforce Development
		We've also worked with the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen to run the Writers' Factory and supported the Television and Young People initiative, run as part of the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.
		In addition, our digital media and creative industries team is working on a project to help business understand the opportunities provided by "convergence" - bringing things like TV, film and music together with the internet to provide new ways for us to enjoy and use media content.
		Scottish Enterprise's digital media and creative industries' team works closely with key partners to support opportunities in content, technology and convergence in Scotland.
	www.scottish-enterprise.com /it/sedotcom_home/sig/digitalmedia/digitalmedia-initiatives/digitalmedia-people.htm (695 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Spotlight on media group
		Scottish Media Group has struck its latest blow in the battle for circulation with the launch of a new look Herald newspaper.
		The group has this year completed the £225m purchase of Chris Evans' Ginger Media Group to add to last year's takeover of cinema advertising firm Pearl and Dean, and outdoor advertising group Primesight.
		Rumours of an intended takeover by hotels and media giant Granada have subsided with the purchase of Ginger, and the group has also announced plans to expand its internet operations with a range of websites under the S1 brand.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/scotland/740632.stm (382 words)

	Granada 'eyeing Scottish Media Group'
		GRANADA is thought to be eyeing a £600m bid for Scottish Media Group as a prelude to barging in on
		However, the source said: "Given the regulatory situation, Granada has time on its side and will not be rushed into anything." Granada already owns an 18.6pc stake in Scottish and rumours of its intentions drove shares in Scottish Media up 4.1pc yesterday to 932.5p.
		Scottish and Granada's combined share of viewers would be 13.5pc, just below the 15pc threshold laid down in the Broadcasting Act.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/11/30/cngran30.html (381 words)

	Guide to resources in Celtic, Scottish Ethnology and Scottish History
		The Art, Design, Architecture and Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue or 2514 Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community.
		Holds ITV franchises for Scottish Television, serving central Scotland, and Grampian Television, broadcasting to the North of Scotland.
		Scottish Life Archive, based in the Royal Museum of Scotland, was founded in 1959 with the aim of preserving documentary and illustrative material, and in particular the details of social and economic life.
	www.lib.ed.ac.uk /resbysub/scottish2.shtml (1001 words)

	Radio Media Activism Society
		Radio media also lagged, down a combined 1.4 percent to an aggregate of $5.26 billion.
		A proposed £455m merger between the media companies would be a strategic...
		In addition to the text news, the Turkish officials felt, ?a similar mechanism should be formed for visual media that would allow radio and television...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/Activism/Media/Radio (540 words)

	Evening Times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Albion Street building had previously housed the Scottish Daily News workers' cooperative from May to November 1975.
		After the purchase the TV group renamed itself Scottish Media Group.
		The Evening Times and The Herald are owned by Newsquest (a division of Gannett), which acquired it with the purchase of the publishing arm of the Scottish Media Group in 2003 in a highly controversial £216-million sale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evening_Times (317 words)

	News Article
		Funded by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow and Glasgow City Council, the bridge is a key linkage in the regeneration of the River Clyde.
		Scottish Enterprise Glasgow Chief Executive Ron Culley said: “The opening of this bridge will be a cornerstone of the regeneration of this part of the river.
		Both BBC Scotland and the Scottish Media Group will be opening new corporate HQs on the former Garden Festival site over the next three years.
	www.scottish-enterprise.com /es/text/sedotcom_home/news-se/news-fullarticle.htm?articleid=111063 (355 words)

	Cross media public interest test for Virgin 1215 AM - the Radio Authority invites comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scottish Media Group publishes the following newspapers in Scotland; The Herald, The Sunday Herald and the Evening Times.
		Under the provisions of the Broadcasting Act 1996, a company which owns a newspaper cannot also own a national radio station unless the Authority conducts a public interest test and is satisfied that the arrangement would not operate against the public interest.
		Scottish Media Group’s cross media public interest test submission is available for viewing at the Authority's office in London by appointment.
	www.ofcom.org.uk /static/archive/rau/newsroom/news-release/00/pr009.htm (415 words)

	MediaGuardian.co.uk \| Media \| Ulster TV eyes SMG's Scottish media empire
		Ulster television is weighing an audacious £300m bid for SMG, the Scottish media group that owns Grampian and Scottish TV, Virgin Radio and the Pearl & Dean advertising company.
		He was forced into selling the Herald group of newspapers to Gannett for £216m to cut borrowings.
		SMG's shares, which were trading at 72p on Friday, have fallen by 40 per cent in two years.
	media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,,1826798,00.html (503 words)

	ulster television plc at Business.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SMG said UTV was now offering SMG shareholders 52% of the joint company, rather than a 50:50...
		SMG and UTV have major commercial radio interests SMG, owner of Virgin Radio and the Scottish broadcaster STV, is set to receive further takeover bids, according to reports.
		SMG said the two proposals were 'unacceptable' as the first only gave its shareholders a 50pc...
	www.business.com /directory/media_and_entertainment/television/station_groups/ulster_television_plc/ulster_television_plc/news (853 words)

	Corporate Watch : G8 Report : SCOTLAND PLC: The Scottish Media
		SMG is a Glasgow-based media conglomerate with interests in TV, radio, cinema, advertising and print.
		The Trinity Mirror Group Plc is reputedly the largest publisher in the United Kingdom and is responsible for approximately 250 newspaper titles.
		Scottish national titles include the Scottish Daily Record, the Sunday Mail, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror along with the Scottish Metro and The Glaswegian.
	www.corporatewatch.org /?lid=1379 (714 words)

	Media Careers Information Day
		There will be around 40 leading exhibitors (including the Avid, BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian, Scottish Screen, Scottish Media Group, Skillset and many more), even more information sessions than ever before and loads of cutting edge demos for you to take part in.
		For those of you who are interested in entering this competitive yet dynamic industry, it really is a fantastic opportunity — a rare chance for you to meet with all the leading media companies and get the very best media careers advice.
		The Media Careers Information Day (Glasgow) is a highly successful event, now entering its 2nd year.
	www.mediacareersday.co.uk /glasgow/visitors.shtml (202 words)

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