21-422: Debate Night is BBC Scotland 's flagship current affairs debate show, hosted by Stephen Jardine , which airs on Wednesdays nights. Stephen Jardine was named as the host on 15 February 2019 ahead of the launch of the new BBC Scotland channel on 24 February 2019. The show first aired on Wednesday 27 February 2019 with a 10.45pm start time, with an initial run of 24 episodes. In April 2019, BBC Scotland announced
42-746: A Scottish perspective. The proposed newscast was compared to the frequent proposals for a Scotland opt-out of the BBC News at Six . Hall also announced that the BBC would increase its overall spending on factual and drama productions in Scotland by £20 million annually. Ofcom granted provisional approval to the new service in April 2018, but showed concerns for its proposal to only dedicate half of its lineup to new programmes (seeing it as removing potential opportunities for independent producers), and directed
63-541: A desk and where topics are afforded 20 or 30 minutes to allow discussion. Details of the guests are usually kept confidential until the programme is broadcast. The programme is produced by Mentorn Media , the company that make the Question Time programme that airs on BBC One . BBC Scotland (TV channel) BBC Scotland (also referred to as the BBC Scotland channel and formerly BBC Two Scotland )
84-485: A move to airing the programme on Sunday nights at 10pm. In September 2020, due to coronavirus restrictions , changes were made for the audience to participate by videoconference links. On 29 September 2021 audience participation in person restarted with a show in Edinburgh. Shows were aired on Wednesdays on BBC Scotland at 10:30 pm and on BBC One Scotland at midnight. It uses a format where panel members are not behind
105-637: 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). As of 2017, BBC Scotland had operated regional variations of BBC One and BBC Two for
126-489: Is aired on Mondays through Thursdays. On Fridays and weekends, the channel aired a shorter, 7 p.m. bulletin, The Seven ; it aired for a half hour on Fridays and 15 minutes on weekends; on Saturdays, The Seven was followed by the entertainment recap The Edit . The panel discussion programme Seven Days aired on Sunday nights, which featured discussions and analysis of the week's news headlines. On 20 February 2024, amid poor viewership, BBC Scotland announced major cutbacks to
147-467: 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. 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
168-492: The BBC stated that roughly half of its programming would be new. Initially, the channel simulcast the BBC Two schedule between midday and 7pm with surrounding continuity from BBC Scotland, thereby accommodating the daytime sport and political programming opt-outs which had been displaced following the closure of BBC Two Scotland . The first main programme to air on BBC Scotland was the 9th series premiere of Still Game on
189-536: The BBC to ensure that the channel does not have an undue impact on competing news outlets (including newspapers and other broadcasters, with the former expressing concern that the BBC would poach employees from newspapers to build its expanded Scotland news operation). Ofcom granted final approval to the service in June 2018: the BBC subsequently announced a planned launch for February 2019. The channel will be allocated £32 million in annual funding. In preparation for
210-752: The Chilean government can bestow on foreigners, the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins , at the rank of Commander (Comendador), during a 2015 ceremony at the City Chambers in Glasgow by Chile's ambassador to the UK, Rolando Drago. The ceremony was included in the film and co-organised by the director. The feature-length film was commercially released in March 2018 in the UK and subsequently on DVD. A Spanish language version
231-412: The Chilean military dictatorship of much of its air power, contrary to the latter's claims at the time, through witness statements not only from several victims of the 1973 military coup but also from the unrepentant former Chilean Air Force chief Fernando Rojas Vender. Following Chile's return to democracy, three of the four Scotsmen - Fulton, Keenan and Somerville - were awarded the highest honour which
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#1732802462117252-551: The Scottish region, as well as the Gaelic channel BBC Alba . On 22 February 2017, BBC director general Lord Hall announced that the corporation planned to replace BBC Two Scotland with a new, part-time BBC Scotland television channel, focused exclusively on Scottish programming. A feature of the channel would be an hour-long 9:00 p.m. weeknight newscast produced from Scotland, covering national and international headlines from
273-612: The Theatre ) hosted by comedian Iain Stirling . Opening night programming also included the broadcast television premiere of the documentary Nae Pasaran , the one-off Burnistoun special Burnistoun Tunes In , and the ninth and final series premiere of Still Game . Viewership peaked at 700,000. BBC Scotland's main broadcast hours are 7:00 p.m. to midnight and outside of these hours, it simulcasts BBC Radio Scotland . At least 95% of programming must be of Scottish origin, and
294-716: The atrocities carried out in Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship . The feature-length film was expanded from an earlier 2013 short film by the same name, funded through the Scottish Documentary Institute 's Bridging the Gap programme. The film was the last programme broadcast on the new BBC Scotland channel's first day on air and was rebroadcast on the same channel on 4 May and 20 October 2019 and on 21 November 2020. A lost engine rediscovered during production
315-400: The channel's first day. The channel’s first drama commission Guilt was a significant success, receiving a strong critical reception and winning a number of awards. Guilt has gone on to be broadcast around the world. BBC Scotland's flagship news programme was The Nine , an hour-long weeknight newscast which reports on UK and international news from a Scottish perspective. The program
336-507: The channel's news programming, with The Edit and Seven Days cancelled, and The Nine being replaced by the half hour The Seven on weeknights. These changes were approved by Ofcom in August 2024. In September 2024, BBC Scotland premiered The Entertainment Mix , a weekly entertainment newsmagazine hosted by singer-songwriter Michelle McManus . BBC Scotland has traditionally shown sport on Friday evenings with Scottish Championship and
357-576: The early rounds of the Scottish Cup matches featuring on Sportscene presented by Leanne Crichton and Steven Thompson from 7.00pm. With football talk show A View From The Terrace , adapted from the cult Terrace Scottish Football Podcast aired later on Friday evenings. AVFTT is produced by Edinburgh-based Studio Something and is presented by Craig Telfer, with analysis from Shaughan McGuigan, and The Scotsman journalists Craig Fowler and Joel Sked. There are three main continuity announcers on
378-589: 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 ). Nae Pasaran Nae Pasaran is a 2018 documentary directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra about a group of workers at a Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride , Scotland , who refused to work on Chilean Air Force parts from 1974-78 due to
399-497: The launch of the new channel, BBC Two Scotland was discontinued and replaced by the networked version beginning 18 February. BBC Scotland launched 24 February at 7:00 p.m.; it signed on with an introductory video, featuring a performance of " Miracle " by the Scottish synthpop group Chvrches , accompanied by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra . Its first programme was a variety special ( A Night at
420-483: Was brought back to Scotland and unveiled as a public monument, in commemoration of the boycott, at South Lanarkshire College in 2019. The feature-length film tells the story of four Scotsmen - Bob Fulton, John Keenan, Robert Somerville and Stuart Barrie - who along with their workmates downed tools and refused to service and repair engines for the Chilean air force's British-made Hawker Hunter jet fighters. It explores just how significant their actions were in depriving
441-596: Was released in 2019, picking up an award at a film festival in the Basque city of San Sebastián. It went on general release in Chile on 6 June 2019, distributed by Miradoc. It became on release the most successful Scottish documentary in UK cinemas, until the release of My Old School in 2022. Nae Pasaran won the Best Feature award at the 2018 British Academy Scotland Awards and its director, Felipe Bustos Sierra ,
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