Presenters Isabel Fraser, Gillian Marles and Gary Robertson |
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| Other names | GMS |
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| Genre | News |
| Running time | 165 minutes |
| Country | Scotland |
| Languages | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio Scotland |
| Syndicates | BBC Radio nan Gàidheal |
| Hosts | Gary Robertson Aileen Clarke Isabel Fraser |
| Starring | Sport Geoff Webster Kenny MacIntyre Heather Dewar Business Waseem Zakir Weather Gail McGrane Judith Ralston Travel Debbie Oates Sarah Cruickshank Gillian Smart |
| Editors | Nicolai Gentchev |
| Recording studio | Glasgow |
| Air dates | since 31 December 1973 |
| Audio format | Stereophonic sound |
| Website | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hf7 |
Good Morning Scotland is a Scottish breakfast radio news programme. It is broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland weekdays from 06:00 to 08:45. Established in 1973, it is the longest-running radio show broadcast from Scotland and remains one of the most popular.
Based in many respects on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, it consists of regular news, sport, business, travel and weather bulletins along with interviews, in-depth reports and a daily religious slot Thought for the Day.
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The programme was launched on the morning of 31 December 1973 with presenters David Findlay and John Milne.
In 1980, to celebrate 50 years of broadcasting from the BBC's Edinburgh studios at Queen Street, Good Morning Scotland was simulcast on BBC1 Scotland, pioneering breakfast television on the BBC (ITV station Yorkshire Television had broadcast a breakfast programme for six weeks during 1978 and thus laid claim to the first semi-regular British breakfast television broadcast).
The first half of the programme is also broadcast on BBC Scotland's Gaelic-language station, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal before its Gaelic counterpart Aithris Na Maidne begins at 07:30.
Listeners in Orkney opt-out between 07:30 and 08:00 for Around Orkney, a 30 minute magazine programme with features, local news and weather, diary, jobspot, mart report and postbag.
There are also local news opt-outs from Selkirk for the Scottish Borders, Dumfries for the South West, Aberdeen for the North East and Inverness for the Highlands.
Morning Extra was an associated phone-in programme broadcast from 09.05 - 10.00. Presented by Graham Stewart, it usually debated one of the biggest stories running on Good Morning Scotland. It was previously only 40 minutes long but was extended in 2008 to an hour.
The programme was axed in 2010 and replaced with a phone-in, Call Kaye, presented by Kaye Adams. The last programme of Morning Extra aired on 26 February.