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THE wisdom behind the awarding of licences for new, local TV channels - one for Edinburgh and another for Glasgow - has been questioned by a leading Scots

THE Scots broadcaster, Andrew Marr, is reportedly recovering in hospital, following a stroke. Reports the BBC, Marr took ill yesterday. A statement says: "The hospital confirmed he has had a stroke.

THE former director-general of the BBC, Alasdair Milne, has died, it is being widely reported. Says the BBC, Milne - who was a Controller of BBC Scotland for four

TRUST in the BBC was down 38 per cent among Scots interviewed for a survey that was published last week. According to the survey - published by YouGov and

THE chair of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, states that the BBC needs a radical structural overhaul and that decision-making has to be

THE First Minister, Alex Salmond, has reportedly urged a return of former director-general, Greg Dyke, to head the Corporation again. Salmond is quoted by Magnus Gardham, in today's Herald

A CALL has been made for the BBC to be restructured along federal lines, providing BBC Scotland with much more autonomy while not breaking up the Corporation as

TWO Scots entries are the among the nominees in an UK-wide competition celebrating the craft of making TV programmes. The Craft and Design Awards - run by the Royal

THE 90th birthday of the BBC is being over-shadowed by allegations of sexual abuse of young girls by one of its best-known stars, the late Jimmy Savile, and

A SCOTS MP has reportedly claimed that an independent Scotland would result in a higher TV licence fee, fewer programmes and fewer channels. Anas Sarwar - Labour MP for

THE allegations of sexual abuse made against the late broadcaster, Jimmy Savile, could add up to the BBC's version of the phone-hacking scandal that last year engulfed the

THE director of BBC Scotland, Ken MacQuarrie, has survived a streamlining of the BBC’s management board, which has been reduced from 22 to 12. MacQuarrie - along with his

THE kidnapping of Scots journalist, Alan Johnston, has been described by the outgoing director-general of the BBC as his "most difficult thing" during his eight years in the

SCOTLAND will have its own national TV channel, irrespective of how the country votes in the upcoming referendum, in two years' time, on whether it should become independent

PLANS presented by First Minister, Alex Salmond - to create a public service broadcaster for Scotland should the country vote for independence - have been criticised by The

THE production arm of STV has secured a new commission from BBC2, for a new, 20-part, daytime cooking show. The new show is STV Productions’ third series commission for

FREE comedy shows being staged by the BBC at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are reportedly being blamed, by some, of alleged poor ticket sales elsewhere at the festival. In

The BBC should be privatised, according to a column published in today's Herald newspaper. Writes feature writer, Mark Smith, privatisation "should have happened in the 1980s". Smith concludes: "All of

AS being widely reported this morning, including on its own website, the BBC has recruited from within to fill its director general post being vacated by Mark Thompson. George