BBC to create new £30 MILLION BBC Scotland channel to 'better reflect' viewers' lives

Director-general Tony Hall said it was the “biggest single investment in broadcast content in Scotland” for over 20 years.

The channel is set to be launched next year, with £19 million per year to be spent on making new programmes.

Lord Hall said: “We know that viewers in Scotland love BBC television but we also know that they want us to better reflect their lives and better reflect modern Scotland.

“The best way of achieving this is a dedicated channel for Scotland.

“It’s a channel that will be bold, creative and ambitious, with a brand-new Scotland-edited international news programme at its heart.”

The new BBC Scotland channel will broadcast from between 7pm to midnight every evening.

There will also be an integrated hour-long news programme at 9pm.

The BBC have stopped short of creating a Scottish news at six, which would have replaced the UK-wide programme.

A spokesperson said that the UK-wide news programme had “performed strongly in Scotland in recent years”.

The news comes just months after the broadcaster moved BBC Three to an online-service-only as a cost-cutting measure.

It is believed by moving the channel online, the BBC saved around £30 million.

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