You did of course have the ITV Saturday morning show What's Up Doc. Production for this at one point was done at TVS/The Family Channel down south, but it was moved up here towards the end. Hence that rather odd episode with PJ and Duncan performing at the end, before a camera on the top of Cowcaddens showed... a then not very glamorous Glasgow skyline.
You also have Take The High Road/High Road, and um...
You did of course have the ITV Saturday morning show What's Up Doc. Production for this at one point was done at TVS/The Family Channel down south, but it was moved up here towards the end. Hence that rather odd episode with PJ and Duncan performing at the end, before a camera on the top of Cowcaddens showed... a then not very glamorous Glasgow skyline.
You also have Take The High Road/High Road, and um...
At the risk of being provocative, when did Glasgow get a glamorous skyline?
Only Scottish Labour could invent a voting system that actually works against them.
Their main concern was making sure the SNP never got an overall majority.
Which they wouldn't have been in any danger of doing without the lists, of course (Labour won the constituencies something like 2:1 vs the SNP, but, hey...)
Salmond makes broadcasting demand
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The SNP said BBC Scotland should deliver UK and international news
First Minister Alex Salmond has called for the Scottish Parliament to be given a regulatory role over the country's broadcasters, including the BBC.
Mr Salmond said the move was necessary to reverse what he called a "dramatic" reduction in BBC spending in Scotland.
The first minister stressed the parliament should not have control over editorial content.
But he said MSPs should have similar powers over broadcasters to the Westminster government.
Mr Salmond is due to make the demand in a speech at the National Museum of Scotland on Wednesday.
The SNP has led a long-running campaign for a separate Scottish-produced national and international news bulletin, commonly referred to as the Scottish Six.
Any self respecting parliament should have some regulatory role over the health of its broadcasting industry
Alex Salmond
First minister
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Speaking to BBC Scotland ahead of his speech, Mr Salmond said expenditure by the BBC in Scotland had fallen sharply over the last few years, leading to a "point of crisis" being reached.
He added: "Instead of hitting the aspiration of a 9% contribution to the network in Scotland we are now down to arguably 3% from 6% a few years ago.
"The BBC as I remember it is the British Broadcasting Corporation, not the English Broadcasting Corporation.
"Any self respecting parliament should have some regulatory role over the health of its broadcasting industry.
"If for example the Scottish Parliament had powers over broadcasting in the same way the UK Parliament does at the present moment does anybody seriously believe we would have seen the rapid diminution and marginalisation of the expenditure in Scottish broadcasting that we have seen in the last few years?"
Mr Salmond said he believed creating a vibrant television and radio network was crucial to the cultural and social wellbeing of the whole country.
He accused broadcasters of failing to respond to the "cultural explosion" brought to Scotland by devolution.
'Moving in reverse'
He added: "There should have been a response which saw more broadcasting, more content, as part of the general cultural explosion which has taken place across the artistic community.
"Instead of that, broadcasting is moving in reverse in Scotland. That situation cannot be tolerated - up with this we will not put."
Labour's Scotland Office Minister David Cairns MP criticised Mr Salmond's comments.
He said: "The argument for the so-called Scottish Six is so old it belongs in the very museum that Alex Salmond is making his speech in.
"We already have an award-winning dedicated Scottish news bulletin, made in Scotland by Scottish journalists - it's called Reporting Scotland.
"Scottish viewers currently enjoy an hour of international, UK and Scottish news every evening from the most respected broadcaster in the world.
"Alex Salmond's plan will deliberately reduce the amount of international and UK-wide news on BBC Scotland in order to push ahead with his plans to break up Britain. The truth is Scots are not as parochial as the SNP would like to think."
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A former member
Most Scott's people don;t want that,
all this has done ( scots parl) is let us vote on who does what in the scottish exciteve instead of the Tories!
The *sizeable* ammount is a minority. Due to the PR system for the Scottish parliament, the SNP have way more seats than they would have under FPTP. They only got so many votes to get Labour out - the analysis showed that there was no strong desire for independence, it happened to be that the SNP were best placed to oust Lab.
Salmond won't get the broadcasting powers - Brown will resist - he bloody better!
The talk of this has been going on for so so long..
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A former member
Alf Garnett this is about Scottish TV, and althourgh I don;t mind going a bit into party, some issues but I don;t want to turn into something NON tv :
still on broad:
Snp stated: you can vote for us without having Independents..back on topic
: why not Scottish opt outs on News 24?
and even stranger nothing about the FACT he want more money!
