User:Bbcscotland

BBC Scotland (Gaelic: BBC Alba) is the broadcaster of BBC Content in Scotland. It is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who are advised in Scotland by the Audience Council Scotland. Its Scottish headquarters and studios are at BBC Pacific Quay on the south bank of the River Clyde, beside the STV headquarters and the Glasgow Science Centre. BBC Scotland also has offices including a newsroom, large television studio, and radio studios near to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, plus an office inside the Parliament building itself. There are also broadcasting centres in Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness and Dumfries. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was resident at BBC Scotland's Queen Margaret Drive base until 2006, when it moved to the Glasgow City Halls in the city centre. The orchestra performs regularly throughout Scotland and around the world.[1] BBC Scotland's main rival is STV (formerly Scottish Television and Grampian Television), which, despite the name, does not in fact broadcast throughout the country. STV's transmissions are confined to the main population centres of central and northern Scotland, while ITV1 (Border) covers the south.