''An Là'' (''The Day'') is a

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...

-language news programme broadcast on the Gaelic-language channel,

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. The programme, based at BBC Alba's newsroom in

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, began at 8pm on 22 September 2008 and provides a 30-minute bulletin of Scottish, British and international news for Gaelic speakers seven days a week. The Sunday night review programme, composed of highlights from the week's bulletins as well as material from ''

Eòrpa ' (Scottish Gaelic for ''Europe'') is long-running current affairs programme broadcast on BBC Alba. The series has been running since 1993 and has covered political and social issues affecting Europe and Europeans over that time including issues ...

'', called ''

Seachd Là ''Seachd Là'' (''Seven Days'') is a weekly Scottish Gaelic-language news magazine produced by BBC Alba, featuring a round up of the week's news. Its stories are from BBC Alba's news programmes ''An Là'' and '' Eòrpa''. It is shown on Sunda ...

'', began at 6.30pm on 28 September 2008.

Broadcast history

''An Là'' broadcasts from Studio G at the BBC in Inverness. ''Seachd Là'', weather and the An Là sports news all come from BBC Pacific Quay in

Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...

. ''An Là'' is the first daily television news programme to be broadcast in Scots Gaelic since the axing of

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's ''

Telefios ''Telefios'' was a Scottish Gaelic-language news programme, broadcast on both Grampian Television and Scottish Television from 4 January 1993 until 2000. Its name is a ''portmanteau'' of the word ''fios'' meaning "knowledge" or "information", a ...

'' bulletins in 2000. ''An Là'' was shortlisted in the Best Current Affairs category at the 2009

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The Team

Main anchors

Angela MacLean Angela may refer to: Places * Angela, Montana * Angela Lake, in Volusia County, Florida * Lake Angela, in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan * Lake Angela, the reservoir impounded by the source dam of the South Yuba River Fiction * Angel ...

* Iain MacLean * Donald Angus Morrison *

Karen Elder Karen may refer to: * Karen (name), a given name and surname * Karen (slang), a term and meme for a demanding woman displaying certain behaviors People * Karen people, an ethnic group in Myanmar and Thailand ** Karen languages or Karenic la ...

* Innes Munro *

Anne McAlpine Anne McAlpine ( née Morrison; previously Lundon) is a Scottish journalist, newsreader and weather presenter working for BBC Alba and BBC Scotland. She is best known for presenting ''Reporting Scotland'' and '' Landward'', and narrating '' Sc ...

Iain Macinnes Iain MacInnes is a Scottish folk musician, currently working as the producer of the BBC Radio Scotland bagpipe music program ''Pipeline''. He was formerly presenter of that program, before taking a one-year sabbatical in 2002 to write a book on ...

Weather presenters

Kirsteen MacDonald Kirsteen MacDonald ( gd, Kirsteen NicDhòmhnaill) is a Scottish broadcaster. MacDonald was born in Inverness, and educated at the Gaelic-medium unit at the city's Central Primary School, and at Millburn Academy. She regularly presents the wea ...

Joy Dunlop Joy Dunlop is a Scottish broadcaster, singer, step dancer and educator from the village of Connel in Argyll, who now lives in Glasgow, Scotland. Singing predominantly in Scottish Gaelic, she performs folk music, song and dance in a contemporary ...

* Sarah Cruickshank *

* Derek MacIntosh

Reporters

Scottish Parliament *

Niall O'Gallagher Niall O'Gallagher ( ga, Niall Ó Gallchoir), along with Michael MacNeill, is the political correspondent (neach-naidheachd) for the BBC's ''An Là'' News programme. Before the launch of ''An Là'', O'Gallagher worked on Radio nan Gaidheal's ''Ait ...

(politics)

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