Celtic issue ban on BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland were denied access to the media conference to introduce Brendan Rodgers to the Celtic support.

The state broadcaster provides extensive coverage of Scottish football through television, radio and the internet but it seems that there has been some sort of fall out with Celtic although no details have been released.

Sky Sports led the questions at today’s 4pm media conference but there was no-one from the BBC to follow up with questions to the new Celtic boss.

At 4.18pm the broadcaster announced:

BBC Scotland have released a statement about being denied access to the media conference.

It reads: “We’re sorry that Celtic did not allow us to access today’s media event. We are in discussions with the club in an effort to resolve the situation.”

That was followed later by:

BBC Scotland has asked Celtic for comment on the decision to deny the BBC access to the media conference and is awaiting a response.

With the media conference live on You Tube the BBC were able to get all of the content open to others but were prevented from shaping the debate with their own questions.

BBC Scotland has a broadcasting contract with the SPFL that gives them an exclusive pre and post match interview with all managers.

Conference starts at 23 minutes