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There are several types of mass media in Scotland: television, cinema, radio, newspapers, magazines, game design and websites. The majority of Scotland's media is located in Glasgow, the countries largest city, which serves as the HQ for much of the countries major media employers such as broadcasters BBC Scotland and STV, radio services including BBC Radio Scotland, Clyde 1 and Pure Radio Scotland. Game design and production company, Rockstar North, has its international offices in the countries capital city, Edinburgh.

Scotland has a number of production companies which produce films and television programmes for Scottish, British and international audiences. Production companies are mostly located in Scotland's cities including Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, as well as production facilities in areas such as North Lanarkshire, Fife and Dumfrieshire. Wardpark Studios in Cumbernauld is one of Scotland's television and film production studios where the television programme Outlander is produced.^[1] Dumbarton Studios, located in Dumbarton is largely used for BBC Scotland programming, used for the filming and production of television programmes such as Still Game, River City, Two Doors Down, and Shetland.^[2]

Popular films associated with Scotland through Scottish production or being filmed in Scotland include Braveheart (1995),^[3] Highlander (1986),^[3] Trainspotting (1996),^[3] Red Road (2006), Neds (2010),^[3] The Angel's Share (2012), Brave (2012)^[4] and Outlaw King (2018).^[5] Popular television programmes associated with Scotland include the long running BBC Scotland soap opera River City which has been broadcast since 2002,^[6] Still Game, a popular Scottish sitcom broadcast throughout the United Kingdom (2002–2007, revived in 2016),^[7] Rab C. Nesbitt, Two Doors Down^[8] and Take the High Road.^[9] The Rig (2023) was the first Amazon Prime Video production to be filmed and produced entirely in Scotland.^[10]