MG Alba is the operating name of the Gaelic Media Service ( gd, Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gàidhlig). The organisation's remit, under the Communications Act 2003, is to ensure that a wide and diverse range of high quality

Gaelic Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...

programmes is made available to persons in

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. 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 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

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and

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. MG Alba has formed a partnership with the

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BBC Alba BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic-language free-to-air public broadcast 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 with BBC Radio nan Gàidheal s ...

, 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 FilmG, a Gaelic short film competition whose winners are given opportunity to develop their programme ideas to broadcast standard. In 2014 and 2015, the value of their programmes broadcast during this period was £11.5 million.

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