''Good Morning Scotland'' ( gd, Madainn Mhath Alba) is a Scottish breakfast radio

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programme. It is broadcast on

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weekdays from 06:00 to 09:00. Established in 1973, it is the longest-running radio show broadcast from Scotland and remains one of the most popular. Weekend editions, broadcast between 08:00 and 10:00, were introduced in early 2015. Based in many respects on BBC Radio 4's ''Today'' programme, it consists of regular news, sport, business, travel and weather bulletins along with interviews, in-depth reports and a daily religious slot ''Thought for the Day''.

History

The programme was launched on the morning of 31 December 1973 with presenters David Findlay and John Milne. Prior to ''GMS'', radio producers Geoff Cameron and Allan Muirhead were responsible for producing a daily opt-out from ''Today'', called ''Today in Scotland''. Its popularity led to the subsequent Good Morning Scotland. In 1980, to celebrate 50 years of broadcasting from the BBC's Edinburgh studios at Queen Street, ''Good Morning Scotland'' was simulcast on

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for a week, pioneering breakfast television on the BBC (

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had broadcast a breakfast programme for six weeks during 1977 and thus laid claim to the first semi-regular British breakfast television broadcast). In 2006 there some major changes to the show, including a change of presenters with Gary Robertson brought in. The programme had an estimated 455,000 listeners in 2008, which fell to 380,000 the following year.

Local variations

The first half of the programme is also broadcast on

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-language station,

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before its Gaelic counterpart ''Aithris Na Maidne'' begins at 07:30. Listeners in Orkney opt-out between 07:30 and 08:00 for Around Orkney, a 30-minute magazine programme with features, local news and weather, diary, jobspot, mart report and postbag. There are also local news opt-outs from Selkirk for the

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, Dumfries for the

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, Aberdeen for the North East and Inverness for the

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Current presenters

* Gary Robertson * Laura Maxwell * Martin Geissler (Relief/Fridays) * Laura Maciver (Relief/Fridays)

Former presenters

* John Milne * Douglas Kynoch * Mary Marquis * James Cox * Mike Russell * Joanna Buchan * Neville Garden *

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* Louise White * Anne MacKenzie (1995–1997) * Derek Bateman (1996–2006) * Mhairi Stuart (1999–2006) * Abeer MacIntyre * Gillian Marles (2005–2009) *

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(2009)

''Morning Extra''

''Morning Extra'' was an associated

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programme broadcast from 09.05 - 10.00. Presented by Graham Stewart, it usually debated one of the biggest stories running on Good Morning Scotland. It was previously only 40 minutes long but was extended in 2008 to an hour. The programme was axed in 2010 and replaced with a phone-in, ''Call Kaye'', presented by

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(later replaced by ''Morning Call''). The last edition of ''Morning Extra'' aired on 26 February.

References

External links

* {{British radio breakfast shows BBC Radio Scotland programmes BBC Radio programmes 1973 radio programme debuts British radio breakfast shows Radio in Scotland