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Media in Glasgow

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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:

Television

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

Radio

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Magazines

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  • bunkered — Scotland's best-selling golf magazine and the biggest-selling golf magazine in the UK per capita.

Newspapers

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

As well as Scottish editions of:

Local newspapers are:

  • The Glaswegian — Covering Glasgow and parts of East Renfrewshire
  • The Digger — Mainly covering 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. -Ceased December 2006 [4]
  • 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.
  • Glasgow Keelie A mutual-aid based monthly newspaper covering events in the Glasgow area[5]

Internet

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "BBC Scotland headquarters". Clyde Waterfront. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. ^ Scott, Kevin (10 February 2018). "£500,000 funding boost for Gaelic media firm behind BBC Alba". The Herald. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  3. ^ "STV Studios". Doors Open Days. Doors Open Days (Scottish Civic Trust). Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Journalism jobs and news from Holdthefrontpage.co.uk". Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  5. ^ Glasgow Keelie - https://glasgowkeelie.org/about/ Retrieved 22/09/2022

Resources

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Gurevitch M. Culture, Society and the Media. Routledge: New Ed edition, 1982