{"id":569260,"date":"2025-11-14T06:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569260\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:30:32","slug":"sinead-rocks-belfast-born-channel-4-executive-sad-to-see-bbc-chief-go-in-wake-of-trump-scandal-i-think-he-did-an-awful-lot-of-good-for-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569260\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinead Rocks: Belfast-born Channel 4 executive sad to see BBC chief go in wake of Trump scandal: \u2018I think he did an awful lot of good for the BBC\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">TV chief tells of determination to bring more local productions to the small screen\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sinead Rocks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dbaf5238-6911-41b3-991a-646df9c1f9f2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sinead Rocks<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Belfast woman in charge of nations and regions at Channel 4 has spoken about her desire to support creatives in Northern Ireland, and her sadness at the resignation of former BBC director general Tim Davie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking to this newspaper at the Belfast Media Festival, Sinead Rocks highlighted the broadcaster\u2019s multimillion-pound investment in training and skills across the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV chief tells of determination to bring more local productions to the small screen Sinead Rocks The Belfast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[192,2378,32,9085,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-569260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-james-mcnaney","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115546647749737245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}