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BBC Radio Scotland – An English-language radio station for Scotland. BBC Radio nan Gàidheal – A Scottish Gaelic language radio station. BBC Radio Orkney – A part-time radio station for Orkney which opts out of Radio Scotland. BBC Radio Shetland – A part-time radio station for Shetland which opts out of Radio Scotland.
BBC Gàidhlig is the department of BBC Scotland that produces Scottish Gaelic-language (Gàidhlig) programming. This includes TV programmes for BBC Alba, the BBC Radio nan Gàidheal radio station and the BBC Alba website. Its managing editor is Marion MacKinnon. [1]
BBC One Scotland: the channel had a number of programmes in Gaelic through its Gaelic department (BBC Gàidhlig): Dòtaman (Spinning top), a programme for pre-schoolers in Gaelic. [26] Production ended in 2000. BBC Two Scotland: the channel had a number of programmes in Gaelic through its Gaelic department (BBC Gàidhlig): Dè a-nis?
The first BBC radio broadcast in the Gaelic language was aired throughout Scotland on Sunday 2 December 1923; this was a 15-minute religious address by Rev. John Bain, recorded in the High United Free Church in Aberdeen.
BBC Two Scotland existed from 9 July 1966 until 17 February 2019, when it was replaced by the BBC Scotland channel. Much of the output of BBC Scotland Television, such as news and current affairs programmes, and the Glasgow-based soap opera, River City , are intended for broadcast within Scotland, whilst others, such as drama and comedy ...
On 22 February 2017, director general Tony Hall announced plans to launch a dedicated English-language BBC Scotland channel in 2018, which would replace the BBC Two Scotland opt-out. It would broadcast from 7:00 p.m. to midnight nightly, and feature a lineup composed entirely of new and archived Scottish programming, including a new hour-long 9 ...
The channel is financed from the BBC Scotland budget and by MG Alba, which itself is financed by the Scottish Government and the UK government. In 2011/12 the BBC spent £8 million on the channel, of which £5 million was used for programming. [12] MG Alba spends the majority of its budget (£12.4 million in 2008/09) on the Gaelic Digital Service.
BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is a Scottish Gaelic language radio station owned and operated by BBC Scotland, a division of the BBC. The station was launched in 1985 and broadcasts Gaelic-language programming with the simulcast of BBC Radio Scotland. Its headquarters is located on Seaforth Road, Stornoway along with BBC Alba and MG Alba.