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An Là
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Presented byAngela MacLean,
Iain MacLean
Production
ProducerBBC Alba
Production locationsInverness, Scotland
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC Alba
Release22 September 2008 –
present
Related
Reporting Scotland
Newsnight Scotland

An Là (The Day) is a Scottish Gaelic-language news programme broadcast on the Scottish Gaelic language channel, BBC Alba. The programme, based at BBC Alba's newsroom in Inverness, began at 8pm on Monday 22 September 2008 and provides a 30-minute bulletin of Scottish, national and international news for Gaelic speakers on weeknights. The Sunday night review programme, composed of highlights from the week's bulletins as well as material from Eòrpa, called Seachd Là, began at 6.30pm on Sunday 28 September 2008. The programme is filmed in studio G of BBC Inverness with Seachd Là, weather and sports coming from Pacific Quay.

An Là is the first daily television news programme to be broadcast in Scots Gaelic since the axing of Grampian Television's Telefios bulletins in 2001.

The Team

Main anchors

Sports presenter

Weather presenters

Reporters

Inverness

  • Calum MacDonald
  • Eilidh MacLeod
  • Donald Morrison
  • Mairi Rodgers

Seachd Là

An Là
Presented byKirsteen MacDonald
Production
ProducerBBC Alba
Production locationsPacific Quay Studios, Glasgow, Scotland
Running time55 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC Alba
Release28 September 2008 –
present

Seachd Là (Seven Days) is a weekly programme with a round up of the week's news. Its stories are from An Là and Eòrpa. It is shown on Sunday's from the Glasgow newsroom and is presented by An Là weather presenter, Kirsteen MacDonald. It is similar to STV Central's weekly news review programme, Scotland This Week.

See also