A new Scottish channel?

So is it Scotland, or just Alex Sammond, that wants a new Scottish channel then?

The Scottish Broadcasting Commission recommends:
· A new digital channel, publicly funded from any new public service broadcasting obligation, including a strong online element with special content
· Ofcom should require STV to maintain its news and current affairs, and non-new Scottish content, in a new public service settlement
· The BBC Trust should ensure all the corporation's news and current affairs better reflects the UK's nations and regions
· All the main TV networks should improve their coverage and commissioning in a way "relevant" to them
· Channel 4 should be forced to increase its spending in Scotland to 8.6% as a condition of its public funding and also base one of its commissioning departments in Scotland

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/sep/08/television.scotland
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2008/09/scotland_doesnt_need_a_scottis.html

However, the idea of a Scottish Six is rejected.


It seems based on politics rather than the demands of the Scottish audience IMO. And a bit of contradiction in their report - on the one hand saying STV should be forced to keep their news commitment, but on the other saying they need a new channel because STV may drop local content. Which itself is highly unlikely IMO - STV sells itself on it's Scottish credentials - they're hardly likely to drop them.

Pointless and a waste of money, that £75 million could be better spent improving and making lots more channels which could be broadcast on STV and BBC scotland one and two, there plenty of space for them,

also how will this link into the new STV channel or will there be linked into this to also help show STV gold ?

when will there change it so that only Stv or BBC can only show Scottish football team games?

The Scottish Broadcasting Commission is a complete embarassment to our country, and a chink in the SNP's until now solid armour. Most of it is unrealistic, and given the poor quality of the vast majority of BBC Scotland's output, they would need to severely sort themselves out before they produced anything worth watching on a standalone channel.

Of course, if you want a standalone Scottish channel you only need to do two things:
1. Scrap the Gaelic channel being put together for a potential audience the size of Renfrew.
2. Do a publically-funded Scottish channel instead, producing high quality programming in a language people can understand.

Tell you what, pay me what the SBC got and we'll get there faster...

Brilliantly, having come up with a load of hare-brained ideas it then rejects the one which has any merit behind it - ie a Scottish Six. Genius.

Cue a lot of English people assuming that we're all this stupid and declaring the 'Scotch' are all scum. Again. Cheers SNP.

Won't the news programme on BBC Alba effectively be a Scottish Six, even more Scottish as it's in Gaelic?

It'll be bloody useless because no-one will be able to understand it.

And I'm not putting up with bloody subtitles while trying to watch a news programme presented from my country.

I think we should kick Scotland out of the UK. They're always cracking on they're a downtrodden nation that doesn't get enough representation, blah blah blah same old same old It's getting tedious beyond belief.

And here's a thought - the population of Scotland is about the same as Yorkshire, yet I don't hear the people of Yorkshire moaning about national representation or independence.

Bang goes

* taggart
* Glasgow X factor
* OIL
* Wheel of fortunes

Ah, so predictable Chie...

Please remember that no-one in Scotland actually asked for this ridiculous report.

Quick note though for future reference - Scotland is actually a nation. Yorkshire is a part of England. Thought you might like to know.

It was commissioned by Alex Salmond, First Minster of Scotland. Are you absolving yourself of any decisions he makes?

- we.....you and who's army ?
- i think more scots have more to "crack on" on a day to day basis than moaning about funding and being part of a united kingdom, i indeed know of no scot personally who hates being a uk citizen THAT much. if you only read the screws of the world or the english current bun, then you're bound to find it tedious.
- yorkshire is a region a part of england, as apposed to a historical nation. that said, poor example really, as most yorkshire folk would consider themselves to have nothing realy in common with "southerners"....more example really, as england itself is very divided, at least on a cultrual level, hence why the northeast in recent years had votes on regional assemblies, etc....

let's not let a thread about a television channel become a place to shove our viewpoints down folks throats. that's what metropol is for.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Do you ally yourself to everything the UK Prime Minister says?

I have opinions on this matter, but reading some of the garbage in this thread I can see I'd be wasting my time publishing them.

I've read more coherent arguments on Digital Spy forums.

Are you saying nobody actually asked for it or saying that your own government doesn't speak for you. You can't have an argument every which way. My original point was in response to a Scottish forumer who said:

Which is clearly wrong, unless your First Minister isn't Scottish.