"BBC Alba BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic language digital television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba. The channel was launched on 19 September 2008 and is on-air for up to seven hours a day. The name """" is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. The station is unique in that it is the first channel to be delivered under a BBC licence by a partnership and is also the first multi-genre channel to come entirely from Scotland with almost all of its programmes made in Scotland. The channel is available in Scotland via Freeview, and throughout"
"First Minister, Alex Salmond opened the new BBC Alba studio in Portree in August 2008 where he recorded a message for the launch of BBC Alba. BBC Alba combines television, radio and on-line programme content, and is anticipated to have a positive impact at many levels including increasing artistic and technical skills, extending economic opportunities, stimulating parents' interest in Gaelic medium education, appealing to and serving the adult learners and strengthening Gaelic usage in extremely important media. It holds significant potential to assist with the development of positive attitudes to the acquisition and transmission of Gaelic. BBC Alba broadcasts more"
"former on 6 November 2012. BBC Alba is broadcast for up to seven hours a day in the United Kingdom on satellite platforms Sky and Freesat, cable provider Virgin Media and on digital terrestrial provider Freeview in Scotland only. Programmes are also available to watch on the internet live through services including the BBC iPlayer and some programmes are available for seven days after broadcast on this service and on catch up services of some other services. The channel is financed from the BBC Scotland budget and by MG Alba, which itself is financed by the Scottish Government and UK"
"in MG Alba announcing publicly in the West Highland Free Press that the 'red button option' for English language commentary would not expand to other sports or areas of the channel. Between its launch in September 2008 and the beginning of 2010, the BBC Alba channel lost a third of its viewers, but its number of viewers remains five times larger than the size of the Gaelic speech community in Scotland (just over 58,000). The historian Michael Fry has argued that many of its viewers only watch it for the football coverage, because ""you don't need Gaelic to watch football"","
"and that in this way the channel is ""cheating"". The model is, however, both common and intentional as it is on comparable channels such as the Irish language channel TG4, the Basque broadcaster EITB or the Welsh channel S4C. In Europe, these channels' main mission is not commercial, but the promotion of the original languages. Some criticism had been levied over the channel's addition to Freeview, primarily due to the BBC's original plan (with acceptance from the BBC Executive) to remove all 13 BBC Radio channels from Freeview for Scottish viewers over the period that BBC Alba will be shown"
"diverse range of high quality programmes in Gaelic are broadcast or otherwise transmitted so as to be available to persons in Scotland"". MG Alba has offices in Stornoway and Glasgow. MG Alba has formed a partnership with the BBC to broadcast BBC Alba, Scotland's Gaelic TV channel, which was launched on 19 September 2008. MG Alba's remit also includes training and development for people working in Gaelic broadcasting. One of its talent development initiatives is Film G, a Gaelic short film competition whose winners are given opportunity to develop their programme ideas to broadcast standard. MG Alba MG Alba is"
"the programme include: Spòrs BBC Alba has the rights to various sporting events, which it covers in the medium of Scottish Gaelic and under the umbrella of its Spòrs sports television programme. The programme is entirely in Scottish Gaelic apart from some interviews which are conducted in English. The programme is usually shown on Saturday evenings, although for live coverage of events this will tend to be at other times. Coverage of football extends across various divisions and cups. BBC Alba's coverage of the SPL includes one full delayed SPL match that is not already being covered live by another"
"Spòrs BBC Alba has the rights to various sporting events, which it covers in the medium of Scottish Gaelic and under the umbrella of its Spòrs sports television programme. The programme is entirely in Scottish Gaelic apart from some interviews which are conducted in English. The programme is usually shown on Saturday evenings, although for live coverage of events this will tend to be at other times. Coverage of football extends across various divisions and cups. BBC Alba's coverage of the SPL includes one full delayed SPL match that is not already being covered live by another channel. In addition,"
"BBC Alba, S4C (for matches involving Welsh teams) and subscription channel Premier Sports. Prior to the re-format in the 2016–17 season, BBC Alba had exclusive rights. The following matches are to be broadcast live on UK television: 2017–18 Scottish Challenge Cup The 2017–18 Scottish Challenge Cup, known as the IRN-BRU Cup due to sponsorship reasons, is the 27th season of the competition. The tournament takes on a similar format from the previous season, however, two teams from the Republic of Ireland's Airtricity League (Sligo Rovers and Bray Wanderers) entered the competition for the first time taking the total number of"
"the competition's Scottish teams. A Gaelic-learning programme, ""Speaking our Language"" is re-broadcast on weeknights at 7:30 pm. Former ' reporter, Derek Mackay hosts a weekly chat show, ', on Sunday nights. So far two series of current affairs documentary ' has been commissioned as of 2010, which is sometimes presented by Donald MacSween. BBC Alba also fund new programming, such as ""Fraochy Bay"". Most of the adult programming on BBC Alba contains on-screen English subtitles. For logistical reasons, live broadcasts (including the news) are not subtitled, although certain events (e.g. the annual Hogmanay broadcast "") have scripted elements that are"
"subtitled, while interviews and ad-libbed lines are not. Children's programmes are not subtitled. Controversially, no English dialogue on the channel is subtitled into Gaelic. BBC Alba concentrates on three sports: football, rugby and shinty. During the 2009–10 season, the station broadcast one full Scottish Premier League game every Saturday night. The game selected was always one not covered by either live Sky Sports or on an on-demand basis by BT Vision and was shown three hours after the end of the match. The matches only included Gaelic commentary along with English subtitles. The channel reached an agreement with the Scottish"
"BBC Alba will soon be broadcasting selected games from the Scottish First Division. BBC Alba also shows live coverage of the Scottish Challenge Cup, which is currently sponsored by one of its operators MG Alba. Currently, BBC Alba broadcasts highlights and selected live matches from the Scottish Premiership Division One rugby union league. BBC Alba covers various events from the game of shinty, including the Camanachd Cup. Evelyn Coull is the main presenter of all Spòrs' programmes. Co-presenters are Martin MacDonald and Ruaraidh Munro. Match commentators include Derek MacKay, Ailig O'Henley and Hugh Dan MacLennan. People who have appeared on"
"the UK on Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media, BBC iPlayer, and TVPlayer. BBC Alba has an average viewership of 637,000 adults over the age of 16 in Scotland each week. BBC Alba got 4.1 million views on BBC iPlayer between 2012–2013. In 2007, the BBC Trust opened a consultation for a Gaelic digital service in partnership with the Gaelic Media Service. Following the BBC Trust consultation in November 2007, the Audience Council Scotland recommended their support for the creation of the service on 7 December 2007, stating that the Trust should pursue carriage of the service on digital terrestrial television and"
"on Freeview (between 5 pm and midnight); however the criticism has not been directed at the BBC's decision to extend BBC Alba to Freeview in principle. On 19 May 2011, it was reported that the BBC has backed down on the plans, after the BBC had ""managed to reengineer facilities"" to allow BBC Radio 1Xtra, 5 Live and 6 Music to continue to broadcast on a 24-hour basis. The three stations were chosen because they have the highest evening audience ratings on digital television of the seven BBC radio stations unavailable on FM radio. On 2 December 2013, it was"
"MG Alba MG Alba is the operating name of the Gaelic Media Service (). The organisation's remit, under the Communications Act 2003, is to ensure that a wide and diverse range of high quality Gaelic programmes is made available to persons in Scotland. In addition to the former mandate to fund programme production and development, training, audience research and related activities, the new Service was given new powers to make, schedule and commission programmes and the authority to seek a broadcast licence. The Communications Act specifies that ""the functions of the Service shall be to secure that a wide and"
"Alba (given name) Alba is a ""unisex"" given name of Latin origin meaning ""white"" . In Spanish and Italian the name means sunrise or ""dawn"". In Spanish and Italian speaking countries it is considered to be a female name. It can also be used as a Spanish surname, as in the actress Jessica Alba, or a title, as in the Spanish Dukedom of Alba. It may also be considered a feminine version of Albert or Albinus or of names beginning with the Germanic Alf. Alba is also the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland and the alba is a subgenre of"
"Scotland, despite having 10% of the population. In 1999, TeleG became the first channel to broadcast only Gaelic-language programmes. It aired for an hour everyday and showed archive shows. It ceased to transmit in 2011. In 2008, BBC Alba began broadcasting with its slogan being ""A new channel for Scotland"". It is a joint venture with MG Alba, which produces many programs for the channel. BBC Alba shows programmes of different genres, including general entertainment, news, documentaries, children's programmes, dramas, sport and films. As well as these, the following channels also broadcast some Gaelic language programmes: BBC One Scotland, BBC"
"as four matches from the Scottish Challenge Cup. The station also altered their coverage of Scottish Premiership highlights, showing one hour highlights of two non-televised matches on a Saturday and Sunday night at 22:00. Other football coverage includes all Scotland U21s and Women's matches. As well as the final of the 2015-16 Scottish Junior Cup. In 2010 BBC Alba bought the rights for Celtic League rugby jointly with public service broadcasters from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. A number of independent companies have been commissioned to produce content for the channel, or have productions currently airing. These"
"on 23 May, with BBC Alba launched on 8 June 2011, using its old EPG number on Freeview. TeleG TeleG was established as the first daily digital Gaelic TV channel in Scotland on 31 October 1999 and was available on the Freeview platform until 23 May 2011. Programmes were transmitted on TeleG between 6pm and 7pm each day. The channel slot was shared with the CITV channel (which broadcast from 6am to 6pm) and ITV2 +1 (which broadcast from 7pm to 6am). The Broadcasting Act 1996, required that programmes shown would be repeats of programmes transmitted on analogue channels (many"
"Government. The BBC spent £8 million on the channel, of which £5 million was used for programming, in 2011/12 MG Alba applies the majority of its budget (£12.4 million in 2008/09) to the Gaelic Digital Service. BBC Alba has four studios across Scotland, located in Stornoway, Glasgow, Inverness and Portree. Continuity and channel management is based in Stornoway while the news services are based in Inverness. A short pre-recorded information program called """" is sent from Stornoway and is played out at 7:55 pm daily. BBC Scotland's headquarters at Pacific Quay in Glasgow is used to transmit the programmes. The"
"Alba (brand) Alba is a British consumer electronics brand owned by Sainsbury's. Its sister brand is Bush. Today, all Alba products are sold exclusively at Argos. Alba began by manufacturing radio sets from 1922. In the late 1960s they became ""Alba Group"", and made only low-cost consumer products. The name ""Alba"" used to be a trademark used on radio and television produced by A.J. Balcombe Ltd. The company was formed in 1917 or 1918 by Alfred Balcombe. It became Alba in 1960, and went into receivership in June 1982. During that time, it was a significant contributor to the development"
"Occitan lyric poetry. Alba (given name) Alba is a ""unisex"" given name of Latin origin meaning ""white"" . In Spanish and Italian the name means sunrise or ""dawn"". In Spanish and Italian speaking countries it is considered to be a female name. It can also be used as a Spanish surname, as in the actress Jessica Alba, or a title, as in the Spanish Dukedom of Alba. It may also be considered a feminine version of Albert or Albinus or of names beginning with the Germanic Alf. Alba is also the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland and the alba is"
"transferring over to BBC Alba. Its flagship programmes which both started in 1993 are ""Dè a-nis?"" and ""Eòrpa"". ""Eòrpa"" hit the headlines in May 2008, specially mentioned in the Scottish Broadcasting Commission's report. 'It was intriguing to note that without fail at every one of our public events BBC2 Scotland's Eòrpa programme was raised, unsolicited, and by non-Gaelic speakers, as an example of a positive, well-respected programme' - Blair Jenkins, Chair - Scottish Broadcasting Commission. and continues to be given a broadcast on BBC2 Scotland as the only Gaelic programme to do. Over the years BBC Scotland made a number"
"BBC Alba. Reporting Scotland Reporting Scotland is BBC Scotland's national television news programme, broadcast seven days a week on BBC One Scotland from the headquarters of BBC Scotland at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. It is the only Scottish national TV news programme in the English language on air, with commercial broadcaster STV providing regional news services for the North of Scotland (including an opt-out for Tayside) and the West and East of Central Scotland. ITV Border's news service is shown in southern Scotland and Cumbria. The programme's editor is Andrew Browne. Although BBC Television had been established in Scotland since"
"an official course on Prince Edward Island. The province of British Columbia is host to the "" (The Gaelic Society of Vancouver), the Vancouver Gaelic Choir, the Victoria Gaelic Choir, as well as the annual Gaelic festival "" Vancouver"". The city of Vancouver's Scottish Cultural Centre also holds seasonal Scottish Gaelic evening classes. The BBC operates a Gaelic-language radio station """" as well as a television channel, . Launched on 19 September 2008, BBC Alba is widely available in the UK (on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media). It also broadcasts across Europe on the Astra 2 satellites. The channel"
"BBC Alba by broadcaster Niall Iain MacDonald the session aired in 2009 on the music show Rapal The band have made numerous appearances on Irish television. In 2010 while promoting their debut album ""Stop Screaming, Start Dreaming"" the band appeared on the 11th Hour with Dave Fanning on RTÉ Two while they also recorded live sessions for Ceol ar an Imeall on TG4 and Imeall Geal on BBC Northern Ireland They appeared on the cover of Nós Mag in the May 2012 edition It has been confirmed that the band will perform on the new BBC Northern Ireland series ""Cuisle"""
"of the British radio & TV industry. In 1982, it was bought by Harvard International. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1987 as Alba plc, buying Bush in 1988, and then Goodmans in 1994. Alba also produces electronic products under licence for other companies or individuals, including Antony Worrall Thompson, Cable and Wireless, Carl Lewis, JCB, Ministry of Sound, Nicky Clarke and NTL. The company sold its share of the Grundig brand for £25.5m in December 2007, although it retained the UK distribution rights until 2010. In November 2008, the Alba and Bush names were purchased"
"a drama documentary produced by STV Productions, was shown at 10:30 pm before the opening night closed with the second half of the live celidh from Skye. The launch night was simulcast on BBC Two Scotland between 9:00 pm and 10:30 pm and there was a launch event held at the National Museum of Scotland, which was recorded by the channel's news service '. A study carried out for the channel indicated that 650,000 people watched BBC Alba per week in the first two months of broadcasting, in spite of only being available to around a third of Scots. After"
"decides on the future development of Gaelic Broadcasting services. The broadcaster and service provider of TeleG was SDN, the company which holds the licence for DTT multiplex A. SDN, then owned by NTL, S4C and United Business Media, was awarded the Multiplex A licence in May 1998. Part of the capacity on Multiplex A was reserved for services provided by Channel 5, S4C in Wales and Gaelic programming in Scotland. SDN was purchased by ITV plc in 2005. TeleG initially continued to broadcast after the launch of BBC Alba on 19 September 2008. At launch BBC Alba was only available"
"The channel is a joint partnership between BBC Scotland and MG Alba and is available across the UK on satellite services. Prior to digital switchover, some Gaelic programming was carried on BBC Two Scotland, however this ceased following the switchover. On 22 February 2017, director general Tony Hall announced plans to launch a dedicated English-language BBC Scotland channel in 2018, which would replace the current BBC Two Scotland opt-out. It would broadcast from 7:00 p.m. to midnight nightly, and feature a lineup composed entirely of new and archived Scottish programming, including a new hour-long 9:00 p.m. weeknight newscast that will"
"On Freeview, the slot was used to launch Challenge. Challenge launched at 9am the day Channel One stopped broadcasting. Sky3 & Sky3 +1 became Pick TV & Pick TV +1 at 6am on 28 February 2011. The Scottish Gaelic channel BBC Alba was launched in Scotland on 8 June 2011, replacing TeleG, which had been on channel 8 in Scotland from the launch of Freeview. To make room for the launch, all radio stations owned by BBC (except BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC 6 Music) now only operate between midnight and 5pm (6pm on weekends). However,"
"include: The Gaelic community, including writers , Angus Peter Campbell, Lisa Storey and musician Allan MacDonald, have criticised the non-availability of Gaelic subtitles, and the emphasis on English language interviews and reportage in the channel's content for adults. Writers and authors were reported by the BBC Gaelic news service as setting up a campaign, GAIDHLIG.TV, to increase Gaelic content on Alba. The decision to introduce 'red button facilities' to allow viewers to switch to English language sports commentary, first announced in August 2014 for rugby and the Guinness Pro12 series, was heavily criticised by the Gaelic community. The criticism resulted"
"licence fee in financing the UK services. In addition, the BBC Alba Gaelic language television service is predominantly funded by MG Alba, an organisation funded by the Scottish Government. (*) During 2007/2008, the BBC stated that 3.6% of the licence fee was spent on collection. According to section 363 of the Communications Act 2003, a TV licence must be obtained for any device that is ""installed or used"" for ""receiving a television programme at the same time (or virtually the same time) as it is received by members of the public"". According to TV Licensing, ""You need a TV Licence"