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BBC Reporting Scotland
''BBC Reporting Scotland'' is the BBC's national television news programme for Scotland, broadcast on BBC One Scotland from the headquarters of BBC Scotland at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. History Although BBC Television was established in Scotland since February 1952 - and broadcast some opt-out programming - it did not start its daily Scottish television news service until Friday 30 August 1957, initially consisting of a five-minute bulletin at 6.05pm on weekdays and a sports results programme on Saturdays. The BBC was keen to launch the ''Scottish News Summary'' ahead of its new commercial rival in the central belt, Scottish Television (STV) and before the launch of similar bulletins elsewhere in the UK. As it turned out, STV began broadcasting the day after the launch of what was the BBC's first opt-out TV news bulletin, with the commercial rival launching its local bulletins the following Monday. Similar five-minute bulletins were introduced to the rest of the UK the following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Miller (journalist)
Laura Miller is a Scottish Broadcast journalism, broadcast journalist and television presenter, who has presented the Monday to Wednesday night edition of BBC Scotland's ''Reporting Scotland'' since 2019. She has also presented The Nine (BBC Scotland), ''The Nine'' on Friday nights since early 2019. Miller previously worked for STV (TV channel), STV News, presenting the East Central Scotland edition of ''STV News, STV News at Six.'' Early life and education Miller grew up in Milton of Campsie in East Dunbartonshire and was educated at Kilsyth Academy. She attended the University of Glasgow from 1998 to 2002, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in Scots law, Scots Law & French language, French. In 2007, she earned a Master of Arts (MA) with Distinction in Broadcast journalism, Broadcast Journalism from the University College Falmouth in Cornwall, England. Career After graduating from University College Falmouth, Falmouth University, Miller produced an award-winning doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and has a population estimate of for the city of Aberdeen, and for the local council area making it the United Kingdom's 39th most populous built-up area. The city is northeast of Edinburgh and north of London, and is the northernmost major city in the United Kingdom. Aberdeen has a long, sandy coastline and features an oceanic climate, with cool summers and mild, rainy winters. During the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries, Aberdeen's buildings incorporated locally quarried grey granite, which may sparkle like silver because of its high mica content. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in 1969, Aberdeen has been known as the offshore oil capital of Europe. Based upon the discovery of prehistoric villages around the mouths of the rivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Reid
Heather Margaret Murray Reid (born c. 1969), also known as "Heather the Weather", is a Scottish meteorologist, physicist, science communicator and educator. She was formerly a broadcaster and weather presenter for BBC Scotland. Career Reid was born in Paisley. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an honours degree in physics followed by a master's degree in satellite image processing from the University's Meteorology Department. In 1993 Reid took a position at the UK Met Office working in satellite research.Heather the weather to leave BBC Scotland BBC News Online, 9 December 2009 From 1994 to 2009 she worked as a for BBC Scotland, pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Macpherson
Archibald "Archie" Macpherson (born 1937) is a Scottish football commentator and author. He has been commentating on Scottish football, via both radio and television, for over four decades. Early life Macpherson was born and raised in the Shettleston area of Glasgow. His father had played as a centre forward for Shettleston, Dalry Thistle and Largs Thistle. Broadcasting career Macpherson has worked for the BBC, STV, Eurosport, Setanta Sports, Radio Clyde and Talksport although he initially struggled to gain a foothold in broadcasting. Indeed, his first job was as a teacher where he supplemented his income by getting short stories published in local newspapers. Such efforts paid off and helped Archie gain his initial big break at the BBC. He continued to work as a teacher until 1969 when he joined the BBC on a full-time basis and remained with the corporation until 1990. Popular perception Macpherson has made his own personal appearances within Scottish popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Bird
Jacqueline Bird (née Macpherson, born 31 July 1962) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster, best known as a former anchor of the BBC Scotland national news programme ''Reporting Scotland''. Early life Jacqueline Macpherson was born on 31 July 1962 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, the daughter of Linda and Ronnie Macpherson. Bird attended Earnock High School in Hamilton. Career Bird was 17 when she started work for DC Thomson in Dundee working on teenage magazines and eventually became the pop editor at Jackie magazine. Subsequently, she worked as a broadcast journalist on Radio Clyde's news team and then as a food critic for the ''Glasgow Evening Times''. After working as a reporter for '' The Sun'' newspaper, Bird joined Television South in Maidstone as a reporter and presenter for the South East edition of regional news programme '' Coast to Coast''. Bird left TVS to join BBC Scotland, making her debut as a main presenter of ''Reporting Scotland'' on Monday 16 October 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Mair
Eddie Mair (born 12 November 1965) is a Scottish broadcaster who was a presenter on BBC radio and television. He presented his show on LBC between 4pm and 6pm every weekday until his last one, on 18 August 2022, after which he retired from broadcasting. He also hosted BBC Radio 4's daily news magazine '' PM'', the Radio 4 Saturday ''iPM'', and ''NewsPod''. He occasionally presented ''Newsnight'' and ''Any Questions''. Mair became a stand-in presenter for ''The Andrew Marr Show'' following Marr's stroke. Mair left the BBC in August 2018. Early life Mair was born in Dundee. His amateur broadcasting career is reported to have started by using the public address system in his school, Whitfield High School, (now Braeview Academy School) in the Dundee housing scheme, Whitfield. Career Mair's professional career began after he rejected a university place in order to present on Radio Tay, a local Dundee station. Mair joined the BBC in 1987 as a sub-editor for Radio Scotland. He moved o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Douglas (journalist)
Alan Douglas (born 16 October 1951, in Dundee) is a journalist and broadcaster. Douglas was a reporter and then studio presenter on BBC Scotland's evening news programme ''Reporting Scotland'' from 1978 to 1996. Alan Douglas left ''Reporting Scotland'' in 1996 having already teamed up with his wife Viv Lumsden to co-present Scottish Television's BAFTA-winning style programme, The Home Show for six years. He has worked on newspapers and radio throughout his journalistic career which has spanned over forty years, starting at the Comet Newspaper, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. He spent four years working in BBC Local Radio in Cumbria and Humberside before returning to BBC Scotland. Douglas is a former founding director of The Broadcasting Business Ltd, a media consultancy specialising in media awareness and presentation skills training and crisis management. Douglas still writes extensively about driving and cars as a freelance motoring correspondent, contributing to websites, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viv Lumsden
Vivien Dale Victoria Lumsden (born 22 November 1952 in Edinburgh) was a newsreader on the Scottish TV (STV Central) news programme, ''Scotland Today'' for nine years. Before Scottish TV, she worked on BBC Scotland's ''Reporting Scotland'' from 1984 to 1989. She co-presented ''The Home Show'' on STV with her husband Alan Douglas for six years and won a BAFTA for the Best Special Interest Programme in 1997. She started her career at Radio Clyde, before working as an AA traffic reporter, and then joining the BBC as a ''Breakfast Time'' newsreader. Lumsden also fronted coverage of the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 for BBC Scotland and was the host who read out the Scottish votes for the BBC Song For Europe 1985 from the old BBC studios in Glasgow. During the early 1990s, she presented her own chat show, ''Viv on Sunday''. A director of Saga Radio in Glasgow until it was bought over to become Smooth FM, Lumsden is on the board of the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixty Minutes (UK TV Programme)
''Sixty Minutes'' is a news and current affairs programme which ran each weekday at 5:40 pm from 24 October 1983 to 27 July 1984 on BBC1. It replaced '' Nationwide'', and integrated the BBC's main regional news magazines into a single programme, as per its predecessor. However, the BBC's News department stoutly maintained its independence from their colleagues in Current Affairs, and the first 15 minutes of news was almost a separate entity, followed by around 20 minutes of regional news before the final 25 minutes of national current affairs. Accordingly, the format was unwieldy, with neither the conciseness of a bulletin nor the soft approach of the show's predecessor, ''Nationwide''. The editor, David Lloyd, poached Nick Ross from the highly popular '' Breakfast Time'' to front the show, along with Desmond Wilcox, Sarah Kennedy, and Sally Magnusson. Kennedy was unable to join the team at the programme's launch, but eventually began to present ''Sixty Minutes'' after Wilcox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationwide (TV Programme)
} ''Nationwide'' was a BBC current affairs television programme which ran from 9 September 1969 until 5 August 1983. Originally broadcast on BBC 1 from Tuesday to Thursday, and then each weekday from 1972, it followed the early evening news, and included the regional opt-out news programmes. Outline It followed a magazine format, combining regional news, political analysis and discussion with consumer affairs, light entertainment and sports reporting. It began on 9 September 1969, running between Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00pm, before being extended to five days a week in 1972. From 1976 until 1981, the start time was 5:55pm. The final edition was broadcast on 5 August 1983 and, the following October, it was replaced by ''Sixty Minutes''. The long-running ''Watchdog'' programme began as a ''Nationwide'' feature. The light entertainment was quite similar in tone to ''That's Life!'', with eccentric stories such as a skateboarding duck and men who claimed that they could walk on e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renton Laidlaw
Henry Renton Laidlaw (6 July 1939 – 12 October 2021) was a British golf broadcaster and journalist. Biography Laidlaw was born in Morningside, Edinburgh in July 1939. He started working as a copytaker, compiling sports results. Laidlaw then moved to the Edinburgh Evening News, working for five years as a junior reporter, before becoming a golf writer in 1962. He then moved into television and radio, becoming one of the best recognised commentators in the sport. He also presented '' Sport on 2'' and '' Sports Report'' between 1985 and 1987. Laidlaw retired in 2015 and latterly lived in Drumoig, near Pickletillum, Fife with his sister. He died in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee on 12 October 2021, at the age of 82. Two days before his death, Laidlaw had tested positive for COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donny MacLeod
Donald B. MacLeod (1 July 1932 – 6 September 1984), popularly known as Donny MacLeod and Donny Bee, was a Scottish TV presenter . MacLeod is best known for appearing on the BBC 1 afternoon show ''Pebble Mill at One''. Early life and career MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. After National Service in the Royal Navy, he studied in Glasgow and then at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, before returning to teach art at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway.Stornoway Broadcasting legend fondly remembered , ''Hebrides News'', 7 December 2010 He stood for election to the at the < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
