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MONDAY 30th JANUARY 2012
JANUARY WEEKLY ROUND-UP (29-4)
Please find below a selection of links to media coverage on Birmingham. Due to paywalls in place by some of the online media channels and time limitations of online broadcast outlets, you may not be able to view articles without an existing subscription.
Please contact the Business PR team if you would like further information.
NEWS BULLETINS: NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE
BBC WEST MIDLANDS
The New York Times has given Birmingham a glowing review in a travel feature published this weekend.”
Comment from Ian Taylor, Commercial Director of Marketing Birmingham.
Story featured in the BBC WM’s news bulletins at 7am, 7.30am, 8.30am (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00nbtc3), 9am, 9.30am, 10am, 10.30am, 11am, 11.30am (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00nbtc5), 12pm bulletins on Sunday morning, with clips of Ian’s interview at 7, 9, 10, 11am and 12pm (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00nbyy2).
ED DOOLAN: NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE – INTERVIEW WITH URBAN COFFEE COMPANY
BBC WM
After decades of bad press, Birmingham is finally getting the recognition it deserves. Twice in less than a month, one of the world’s most influential newspapers the New York Times has given Birmingham a glowing review.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00nbtc5 (from 1 hour, 8 mins – for five minutes)
SUNDAY MORNING NEWS BULLETIN: BIRMINGHAM PRAISED IN NEW YORK TIMES
Heart FM
Newsreader:
And priceless PR for the city - that’s how a newspaper article about Birmingham is being described after it was published in New York.”
Neil Rami:
The kind of impact you get from a New York Times piece frankly is as big as it gets in the States.”
Newsreader:
That’s Neil Rami from Marketing Birmingham. He says we could see a few more American tourists about the place after such glowing reviews. You can take a look at it on heart.co.uk.”
Interview set up by Marketing Birmingham’s PR team.
