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| TV stations | BBC One Scotland BBC Scotland BBC Alba |
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| Radio stations | BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal, BBC Radio Shetland, BBC Radio Orkney |
| Headquarters | BBC Pacific Quay, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Area | Scotland |
Key people | Steve Carson (Director, BBC Scotland) |
Launch date | 1 January 1923 |
Official website | www |
| Language | English and Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) |
BBC Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.
It is one of the four BBC national regions, together with the BBC English Regions, BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Northern Ireland. Its headquarters are in Glasgow, it employs approximately 1,250 staff as of 2017, to produce 15,000 hours of television and radio programming per year.[1] Some £320 million of licence fee revenue is raised in Scotland, with expenditure on purely local content set to stand at £86 million by 2016–2017.[2] The remainder of licence fee revenue raised in the country is spent on networked programmes shown throughout the UK.
BBC Scotland operates television channels such as the Scottish variant of BBC One, the BBC Scotland channel and the Gaelic-language channel BBC Alba, and radio stations BBC Radio Scotland and Gaelic-language BBC Radio nan Gàidheal.
- ^ "Ken MacQuarrie, Director, BBC Scotland". About the BBC. BBC. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
- ^ "Scottish Government Response to the Third PSB Review consultation" (PDF). Ofcom. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
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