Scottish TV channelTemplate:SHORTDESC:Scottish TV channel
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.
BBC Scotland (also referred to as the BBC Scotland channel) is a Scottish free-to-air public broadcasttelevision 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 Scotlandopt-out of BBC Two, but operating as an autonomous channel (displacing BBC Four on Freeview in Scotland).
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.
Dominic Main from Drongan was a student at the University of the West of Scotland and has studied broadcast production for many years.
Jennie Cook from Kingussie is a former Capital Scotland breakfast presenter.
Cameron McKenna from Glasgow (relief announcer) is a former STV continuity announcer and a former radio newsreader.
All continuity on the channel is performed live and broadcast from Pacific Quay.
Identification[]
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).[2]
Scotland *Wales *Northern Ireland *North East and Cumbria *North West *Yorkshire *Yorkshire and Lincolnshire *West *West Midlands *East Midlands *East *London *South West *South *South East
Services and programming blocks
BBC iPlayer *BBC Learning Zone *BBC Music *BBC News *BBC Red Button *BBC Schools *BBC Sport *BBC Three (online) *BBC Weather *CBBC *CBeebies
International channels and joint ventures
BBC Alba *BBC America *BBC Arabic Television *BBC Brit *BBC Earth **Canada **India *BBC Entertainment *BBC First **Australia **Canada **Netherlands and Belgium *BBC HD (international) *BBC Kids (Australia) *BBC Lifestyle *BBC Persian Television *BBC South Asia *BBC UKTV (Australia and New Zealand) *BBC World News *Together *UKTV (UK and Ireland)
Defunct channels
BBC Canada *BBC Choice **Northern Ireland **Scotland **Wales *BBC Food *BBC HD (UK) *BBC Japan *BBC Kids (Canada) *BBC Knowledge **UK **international *BBC Prime *BBC Select *BBC Three (2003-2016) (television channel) *BBC TV Europe *BBC World Service Television *BBC 2W *BBC Two Scotland
