Reporting Scotland
| Reporting Scotland | |
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 Reporting Scotland's titles (2008-) |
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| Genre | News |
| Presented by | Jackie Bird, Sally Magnusson |
| Country of origin | Scotland |
| Language(s) | English |
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| Location(s) | BBC Pacific Quay, Glasgow |
| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes; Short bulletins: Durations vary |
| Production company(s) | BBC Scotland News (BBC News) |
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| Original channel | BBC One Scotland |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original run | April 1, 1968 – October 21, 1983; July 30, 1984 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Newsnight Scotland An Là |
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Reporting Scotland is BBC Scotland's national television news programme. The programme first aired on 1 April 1968, with three main presenters - the most famous being Mary Marquis. It is the only Scottish national news programme in the English language on air, with commercial broadcaster STV providing regional news services for the North of Scotland (including an opt-out for Tayside) and the West and East of Central Scotland. ITV Border's news service is shown in southern Scotland and Cumbria.
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[edit] History
Although BBC Television had been established in Scotland since February 1952 and had broadcast some opt-out programming, it did not start its Scottish television news service until Friday August 30 1957, initially as a five-minute bulletin at 6.05pm on weekdays. The BBC was keen to launch the Scottish News Summary ahead of its new rival, Scottish Television (STV) - as it turned out, STV began broadcasting the day after the launch of what was the BBC's first regional TV news bulletin. Topical magazine programmes were later introduced to supplement the Scottish news bulletins including Six Ten, A Quick Look Round and a weekly opt-out programme for the North of Scotland entitled Talk of the North.
Reporting Scotland was introduced on 1 April 1968 - for much of its earlier history, the programme was presented from Glasgow, Edinburgh & Aberdeen and integrated into the Nationwide strand. As with the other parts of the UK, the Reporting Scotland news team often contributed reports to the Nationwide programme. When Nationwide ended in 1983, Reporting Scotland was briefly replaced by Scotland Sixty Minutes as part of the revamped news programme, Sixty Minutes, but was reinstated in 1984. Since that time, the name "Reporting Scotland" has also been used as the on-screen identity for all of BBC Scotland's television news bulletins.
The viewing figures for the main evening programme average between 500,000 and 600,000.[citation needed] The main transmitters for the programme are those at Durris near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire and Black Hill in North Lanarkshire.
BBC Scotland moved to BBC Pacific Quay in 2007, with Reporting Scotland first broadcasting from the new building on 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.
[edit] Broadcasting
The programme airs several times through the day on BBC One Scotland, currently at the following usual times:-
- Monday to Friday
- 5x3 minute & 1x1.30 bulletins during BBC Breakfast (between 06:00 and 09:15)
- 13:30-13:45, after the BBC News at One
- A short bulletin at 15:00, following a BBC News summary
- 18:30-19:00, after the BBC News at Six
- 22:25-22:35, after the BBC News at Ten
- Saturday
- Times vary - lunchtime and early evening
- Sunday
- Summary during The Politics Show Scotland, early evening and late night
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 online BBC iPlayer.
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 Astra satellite at 28.2° 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
The Reporting Scotland presentation team consists of the following:
| Presenter | Current Role |
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| Jackie Bird | Anchor (Monday to Wednesday) |
| Sally Magnusson | Anchor (Thursday and Friday) |
| David Henderson | Relief anchor |
| Catriona Shearer | Breakfast bulletins presenter and relief anchor |
| Graham Stewart | Weekend bulletins presenter |
| Sally McNair | Bulletin Presenter |
The weekend presenter also acts as a reporter.
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[edit] Weather forecasters
Temporary presenters
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[edit] Regional correspondents
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West (Glasgow)
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East (Edinburgh)
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North East (Aberdeen)
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North (Inverness)
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Tayside and Fife (Dundee)
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South West (Dumfries)
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South East (Selkirk)
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Orkney and Shetland (Kirkwall)
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In addition, some other members of the newsroom team and full-time radio reporters occasionally compile reports - as do Gaelic journalists working for BBC Alba.
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[edit] Political correspondents
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[edit] Sports correspondents
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[edit] Past Presenters & Reporters
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[edit] External links
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