Media in Glasgow

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article deals with the Media in Glasgow. The city of Glasgow, Scotland is home to large sections of the Scottish national media. It hosts the following:

Contents 1 Television 2 Radio 3 Newspapers 4 Internet 5 See also

[edit] Television

• BBC Scotland — the national broadcaster, based in Queen Margaret Drive (soon Pacific Quay.
• STV — (previously known as Scottish Television in Central Scotland, and Grampian Television in Northern Scotland). Scotland's largest independent ITV companies, owned by the SMG plc, based in Pacific Quay.

Television programmes set in Glasgow include: Taggart, Rebus (set in Edinburgh but shot mostly in Glasgow), Rab C Nesbitt, City Lights, Chewing the Fat, River City, and Still Game.

[edit] Radio

• BBC Radio Scotland
• Clyde 1
• Clyde 2
• Real Radio Scotland
• Saga 105.2 FM, Glasgow
• Sunny Govan Radio
• Xfm Scotland

[edit] Newspapers

A number of major Scottish newspapers are published in the city:

• The Daily Record and Sunday Mail — Scotland's best-selling tabloid, based at Central Quay
• The Herald — Scotland's best-selling broadsheet
• The Sunday Herald — its five-year-old sister title
• The Evening Times — an evening tabloid distributed in the west of Scotland

As well as Scottish editions of:

• The Sun
• The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
• The Times and Sunday Times

Local newspapers are:

• The Glaswegian — Predominantly serving the North of Glasgow
• Local News for Southsiders — The Southside of Glasgow and the Govan area.
• The Glasgow East News — The East End of the City
• The West End Mail — Partick, West-End and the Northwest outskirts.
• The Springburn Herald — Weekly newspaper covering the area of North Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire
• G41 — Monthly community newspaper serving Dumbreck, Pollokshields, Strathbungo, Shawlands and Langside. Published by a social enterprise called Southside Media.

[edit] Internet

• Scot24news

[edit] See also

• Media in Scotland
• Scottish Daily News