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BBC Scotland (TV channel)

BBC Scotland (also referred to as the BBC Scotland channel) is a Scottish free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC Scotland division of the BBC. It airs a nightly lineup of entirely Scottish programming. The channel launched 24 February 2019, replacing the BBC Two Scotland opt-out of BBC Two, but operating as an autonomous channel (displacing BBC Four on Freeview in Scotland).

This article is about the Scottish television channel. For a division of the BBC that operates it, see BBC Scotland. For the Scottish Gaelic language channel, see BBC Alba.

Country

English

1080i/1080p[a] HDTV
(downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed)

BBC

24 February 2019 (2019-02-24)

Channel 9 (SD)
Channel 108 (HD)

Dominic Main from was a student at the University of the West of Scotland and has studied broadcast production for many years.

Drongan

George Taylor from worked in marketing for The Sunday Times and The Times Scotland.

Glasgow

Jennie Cook from is a former Capital Scotland breakfast presenter.

Kingussie

Cameron McKenna from (relief announcer) is a former STV continuity announcer and a former radio newsreader.

Glasgow

There are three main continuity announcers on the BBC Scotland channel, who also double up as playout directors, overseeing transmission of the channel's programming and presentation.


All continuity on the channel is performed live and broadcast from Pacific Quay.

Identification[edit]

BBC Scotland's idents feature the channel's logo in the centre of the screen, usually accompanied with a background that fits the colour of the logo when it eventually is lit up. In the first set of idents, the BBC Scotland logo is featured among cobblestones on a rainy street, a bird which flies around the logo as well as a subway station (specifically Buchanan Street subway station in Glasgow).[16]

BBC One Scotland

at BBC Online

BBC Scotland

at BBC Online

BBC News Scotland