Reporting Scotland
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| Reporting Scotland | |
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 Reporting Scotland's updated 2008 titles |
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| Format | News |
| Presented by | David Robertson, Jackie Bird, Sally Magnusson |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | BBC Scotland News |
| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One Scotland |
| Picture format | 720x576 anamorphic 16:9 |
| Original run | 1968 – Present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Newsnight Scotland |
Reporting Scotland is BBC Scotland's national television news programme. The programme first went on air in 1968, with three main presenters, the most famous being Mary Marquis. It is the main national news programme in Scotland, with STV and ITV Border providing regional, more localised bulletins for their coverage areas.
The viewing figures for the main evening programme average between 500,000 and 600,000. The main transmitters for the programme are those at Durris near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire and Black Hill in North Lanarkshire.
BBC Scotland moved to their new studios (Pacific Quay Studios) in the summer of 2007, with Reporting Scotland first broadcasting from the new building on Monday 20 August. The studio backdrop features BBC Scotland's new headquarters on the banks of the Clyde.
The new building at Pacific Quay is one of the most modern, state of the art, digital broadcasting facilities in the world, complete with the BBC's first HD-capable newsroom.
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[edit] Broadcasting
The programme airs several times through the day on BBC One Scotland, currently at the following usual times:-
- Monday to Friday
- during BBC Breakfast (which runs from 06:00-09:15)
- 13:30-13:45, after the BBC News at One
- 18:30-19:00, after the BBC News at Six
- 19:58-19:59, after the BBC News (8pm summary)
- 22:25-22:35, after the BBC News at Ten
- Saturday, after the circa 17:30 UK news; this edition is the one most likely to change its time to precede or follow live broadcasts of sports events
- Sunday, after the 17:35 UK news
Along with other BBC Scotland news and current affairs programming, it can be viewed as a live or on-demand (in full or as individual articles) video stream from the BBC Scotland Player over the Internet.
The programme can also be watched in any part of the UK (and much of Europe) via the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service transmitted from the SES Astra satellite position at 28.2 degrees East:-
- on channel 101 using Sky-branded proprietary satellite receivers with a Conditional access card associated with an address in Scotland
- on channel 971 using a Sky-branded receiver with a card associated with a non-Scottish address or with no viewing card
- on 10803 MHz, 22000Ksps, Horizontal polarisation, FEC 5/6 using a normal satellite receiver
[edit] The Team
Currently, the main presenting team consists of the following;
[edit] Presenters:
Main Anchors
Shorter bulletins Presenters
[edit] Sports Presenters:
- Alison Walker - Also the anchor of BBC Scotland's shinty and curling coverage
- David Currie - Also the co-anchor of Sportscene Results
- Kheredine Idessane
- Rhona McLeod
- Dougie Vipond
[edit] Weather Presenters:
- Gail McGrane
- Heather Reid
- Peter Sloss
[edit] Reporters
Regional correspondents:
West (Glasgow): Aileen Clarke, Alan Mackay, Catriona Renton, David Kerr, Julie Peacock, Kevin Keane, Lorna Gordon, Raymond Buchanan, Joanne Macauley
East (Edinburgh): Elizabeth Quigley, Isabel Fraser, John Knox, Louise Stewart, Morag Kinnaburgh, Nina Macleod
North East (Aberdeen): Colin Wight, Eric Crockhart, Fiona Stalker, Steven Duff
North (Inverness): Craig Anderson, Ian MacDonald, Jacqui O'Brien
Tayside (Dundee): Alan Grant, Andrew Anderson
South West (Dumfries): Willie Johnston
South East (Selkirk): Cameron Buttle
Orkney (Kirkwall): John Johnson
Specialist correspondents:
- Eleanor Bradford (Health)
- Fiona Walker (Social Affairs)
- Hayley Millar (Business)
- Jamie McIvor (Business)
- Louise Batchelor (Environment)
- Pauline McLean (Arts)
- Reevel Alderson (Home Affairs)
- Seonag MacKinnon (Education)
Political correspondents:
- Brian Taylor - Political Editor
- Kit Fraser
- Angus Roxburgh - Europe Correspondent
- David Porter (Westminster)
- Glenn Campbell
Sports correspondents:
- Chris McLaughlin
- Geoff Webster
[edit] Past Presenters:
- Alan Douglas
- Fiona Henderson
- Viv Lumsden
- Cathy MacDonald
- Anne MacKenzie
- Penny Macmillan
- Eddie Mair - Now with BBC Radio 4's PM programme
- Mary Marquis
- John Milne
- Brenda Patterson
- Allan Robb
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
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