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BBC One Scotland

Logo used since 2021.
Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	Scotland
Network	BBC One
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	BBC Scotland
Sister channels	BBC Alba BBC Scotland
History
Launched	14 March 1952; 72 years ago (1952-03-14)
Former names	BBC TV Service Scotland (1952–1964) BBC 1 Scotland (1964–1983; 1985–1991) BBC Scotland (1983–1985) BBC Scotland On 1 (1991–1997)
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview	Channel 1 (SD) Channel 101 (HD)
Streaming media
BBC iPlayer

BBC One Scotland is a Scottish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by BBC Scotland. It is the Scottish variation of the UK-wide BBC One network and is broadcast from Pacific Quay in Glasgow.

History

The BBC Television Service started broadcasts to Scotland on 14 March 1952 using the 405-line television system broadcast from the Kirk o'Shotts transmitter, four weeks after England saw television pictures from Scotland with the funeral of King George VI on 15 February. The first programme, Television Comes to Scotland, was relayed on the English transmitters, featuring a dedicatory prayer, a vote of thanks from Lord Provost of Edinburgh and a ten-minute dancing segment. The inaugural speeches didn't go well in London, but the entertainment output over time received praise. The Television Newsreel that day was led by the launch of the service in Scotland.

Expansion of the service was first planned in 1954 with the building of a transmitter in Inverness; accomplished by the opening of the Rosemarkie transmitting station on 14 August 1957, extending reception to the Highlands. By 1962, there were plans for television news interview studios in Edinburgh and Aberdeen, followed by the building of transmitters in Shetland and Ballachulish. Further transmitters were commissioned in 1964 to increase coverage in the Shetland Islands and South West Scotland. Colour broadcasts started with the network output in 1969; with the conversion of BBC Scotland's Queen Margaret Drive Studio "A" in Glasgow in 1971, Scottish programming followed suit.

On 1 December 1980, BBC1 Scotland broadcast the Radiovision project delivering a simulcast of BBC Radio Scotland's breakfast programme. This was the first breakfast television programme broadcast by BBC1 in any part of the UK, after the short-lived attempt by Yorkshire Television in 1977.

Presentation

For all of the time the channel is referred to on screen as BBC One Scotland, sometimes using overlays to replace the normal channel identifier. The station also has its own team of continuity announcers, provided by BBC Scotland, to accommodate for the variations seen in Scotland from the rest of the BBC One network, whilst also providing the channel with an added Scottish identity. The announcers, based in Glasgow, also double up as transmission directors.

BBC One Scotland updated its visual presentation style as part of the network BBC One revamp on 7 October 2006. The presentation style fits in with the national BBC One 'Circle' idents, but with the "Scotland" caption added to the network logo.

• BBC One Scotland 'Curling' ident from the nineties by Liquid Image
• 'Barrel of laughs' BBC One Scotland nineties ident by Liquid Image

Availability

An HD (high-definition) simulcast of BBC One Scotland launched on 14 January 2013 on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media. On 10 December 2013, BBC One Scotland HD was swapped with the SD channel on Sky's EPG for HD subscribers.

Programming

BBC One Scotland is responsible for covering certain special events such as the annual Hogmanay Live programme which sees in the New Year, and major Scottish sporting events such as football internationals, the Scottish Cup, Scotland's Six Nations rugby union campaigns, and the performance of Scottish competitors at the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games.

Whilst generally following the schedules of the UK-wide BBC One, BBC One Scotland offers programming specific to Scotland, such as soap opera River City and football programme Sportscene. As a result of this, regular BBC One shows, such as Holby City, are scheduled at different regular times in Scotland, compared with the rest of the UK.

News, Sport and Weather specifically for Scotland are examples of the channel's distinct output.

Examples of BBC One Scotland programmes include:

• BBC Scotland Investigates
• The Beechgrove Garden
• Debate Night
• Reporting Scotland
• River City
• Sportscene
• The Scheme
• Still Game
• Scot Squad
• Two Doors Down

References

1. BBC Scotland Television
2. ^ "History". The Wireless to the Web. BBC. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
3. . BBC Programme Index.
4. "Hansard, HC Deb". 20 January 1954.
5. "Television Station For Inverness". Glasgow Herald. 21 January 1954.
6. 'The Opening of Rosemarkie', Radio Times (Scottish edition), 9 August 1957, page 7.
7. "More TV Coverage for Scotland. B.B.C. Report and "Public Service Obligation"". The Glasgow Herald. 19 October 1962. p. 11. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
8. Macdonald, Colin (1 December 2024). "Breakfast television or a tele-documentary about radio?". Transdiffusion.
9. "BBC One Scotland to go HD on the 14th". a516digital. 8 January 2013. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
10. "Launching BBC One Scotland HD and BBC One Wales HD". BBC. 11 January 2013.
11. Pryde, Alix (9 December 2013). "CBBC HD, CBeebies HD, BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD & BBC News HD launch Tuesday 10 December 2013". BBC. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
12. BBC statements of programme policy

External links

• BBC One Scotland listings at BBC Online
• BBC Scotland at BBC Online

• 1952 establishments in Scotland
• BBC television channels in the United Kingdom
• English-language television stations in the United Kingdom
• Television channels and stations established in 1952
• BBC Scotland
• Television channels in Scotland