Editing BBC Scotland (section)

==History==
[[File:5SC Plaque Glasgow.jpg|alt=A commemorative plaque on a building on Bath Street, Glasgow with the text "5SC One 6th March 1923 The First Radio Studios of the BBC in Scotland were inaugurated in this building BBC"|right|thumb|A commemorative plaque on a building on Bath Street, Glasgow]]
[[File:BBC logo (pre97; Scotland).svg|thumb|The logo of BBC Scotland between 1988 and 1997.]]
===Radio services===

The first radio service in Scotland was launched by the [[British Broadcasting Company]] on 6 March 1923.<ref name="BBC Wireless to Web">{{cite web|title=History|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/aboutus/wirelesstoweb/history/index.shtml|work=The Wireless to the Web|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 June 2012}}</ref> Named [[BBC Regional Programme|5SC]] and located in Bath Street in Glasgow, the services gradually expanded to include the new stations 2BD, 2DE and 2EH, based at Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh respectively.<ref name="BBC Wireless to Web"/> Around 1927, the new Corporation, as the BBC now was, decided to combine these local stations into regions under the generic banner of the [[BBC Regional Programme]]. Regional programmes throughout the UK were merged to form the [[BBC Home Service]] in 1939, and, with a break for the Second World War, national opt outs remained on the station and its successor [[BBC Radio 4]] until the establishment of a separate [[BBC Radio Scotland]] in November 1978.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC – Scotland – The Wireless to the Web – History |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/aboutus/wirelesstoweb/history/ |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=18 January 2025}}</ref>

===Television services===

Television in Scotland began formally on 14 March 1952 using the [[405-line television system]] broadcast from the [[Kirk o' Shotts transmitter]].<ref name="BBC Wireless to Web"/> In the beginning, all programmes came from London but some with Scottish content were made using an outside broadcast unit. By 1962, there were plans for television news interview studios in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5XxAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2636%2C7260114 |title=More TV Coverage for Scotland. B.B.C. Report and "Public Service Obligation" |work=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |date=19 October 1962 |page=11|access-date=8 January 2022}}</ref> Eventually, BBC Scotland established the right to "opt-out" of the network more and more.  When BBC Two arrived in Scotland in 1966 (having begun in London two years earlier and spread across the country), broadcasts began in black and white on 405-lines from the Black Hill transmitter. BBC Two upgraded to [[PAL]] colour in 1967 (including Scotland) across the UK, with BBC One (network programmes only at first, with local output still in black-and-white) and [[STV (TV channel)|STV]] following in December 1969, and in 1971, BBC Scotland's Queen Margaret Drive Studio "A" in Glasgow became one of the first regional studios in Britain to upgrade to colour.<ref name="BBC Wireless to Web"/>

In September 1998, [[BBC Choice Scotland]] was launched as BBC Scotland's first digital service.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12335421.No_one_gets_the_Choice_BBC_launches_digital_TV/ |title=No-one gets the Choice BBC launches new channel |work=The Herald |date=24 September 1998 |access-date=19 August 2017}}</ref>

===Recent years===

For many years, BBC Scotland has tried to increase the number of programmes it makes to be shown on the networks.  This ambition was greatly aided by the move of BBC Scotland's headquarters in 2007 from Queen Margaret Drive to [[BBC Pacific Quay]] where state of the art digital studios were built. In March 2021, a decision was taken by the BBC to relocated jobs and departments from London to other parts of the BBC network, including BBC Scotland. As part of the restructure, the technology team for the BBC moved from London to Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC to move key jobs and programmes out of London |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56433109 |website=BBC News |access-date=18 January 2025 |date=18 March 2021}}</ref> Productions by the BBC such as ''[[The Weakest Link]]'', ''[[Newsnight Review]]'' and "at least one Saturday night primetime show" would be relocated to Scotland, produced by BBC Scotland in Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Big Question: What will a BBC move out of London mean for |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/the-big-question-what-will-a-bbc-move-out-of-london-mean-for-programmes-and-viewers-964172.html |website=The Independent |access-date=18 January 2025}}</ref>

The BBC's flagship political and debating programme, ''[[Question Time]]'', had its permanent base moved to Glasgow in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dowell |first1=Ben |title=BBC2's Newsnight Review to get revamp |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/mar/24/newsnight-review-revamp |website=The Guardian |access-date=18 January 2025 |date=24 March 2009}}</ref> The relocation of ''Question Time'' to Glasgow sparked some controversy, with former executive producer of the programme, George Carey, claiming the move from London to Glasgow would "editorially weaken the show and increase costs".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Maggie |title=Former Question Time producer hits out at Glasgow move |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/feb/11/bbc-question-time-glasgow-move |website=The Guardian |access-date=18 January 2025 |date=11 February 2011}}</ref>