This article deals with the Media in Glasgow. The city of Glasgow, Scotland is home to large sections of the
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: ''BBC Alba'') is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.
It is one of the four BBC national regions, together with the BBC English Regions, BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Northern Ireland. I ...
— the national broadcaster, based in
Pacific Quay Studios
BBC Pacific Quay is BBC Scotland's television and radio studio complex at Pacific Quay, Glasgow, Scotland. Opened by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 20 September 2007, the studios are home to BBC Scotland's television, radio and online se ...
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 ...
ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to:
ITV
*Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of:
** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
company, owned by the STV Group plc, based in Pacific Quay.
Television programmes set in Glasgow include: '' Taggart'', '' Rebus'' (set in Edinburgh but shot mostly in Glasgow), '' High Times'', '' Rab C Nesbitt'', ''
City Lights
''City Lights'' is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and ...
Still Game
''Still Game'' is a Scottish sitcom, produced by The Comedy Unit with BBC Scotland. It was created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, who played the lead characters, Jack Jarvis, Esq and Victor McDade, two Glaswegian pensioners. The characte ...
105.2 Smooth Radio
Smooth Scotland is a Scottish independent local radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Smooth network. The station replaced Saga 105.2 FM in 2007.
As well as being carried on FM in the Glasgow area, the station is also broa ...
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Sunny Govan Radio
Sunny Govan Radio, also known as "Sunny G", is a community radio station based in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. It is run by the charity Sunny Govan Community Radio Group.
History
The station's first FM broadcasts took place over two weeks in Augus ...
bunkered
''bunkered'' is a Scottish golf magazine published by DC Thomson. Based in Dundee, Scotland, the magazine was launched in 1996 and is published eight times per year. It covers the entire spectrum of golf, with a particular emphasis on Scottis ...
— Scotland's best-selling golf magazine and the biggest-selling golf magazine in the UK per capita.
Newspapers
A number of major Scottish newspapers are published in the city:
*The '' Daily Record'' and '' Sunday Mail'' — Scotland's best-selling tabloid, based at Central Quay
*'' The Herald'' — Scotland's best-selling broadsheet
*The '' Sunday Herald'' — its five-year-old sister title
*The ''
Evening Times
The ''Glasgow Times'' is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Called ''The Evening Times'' from 1876, it was rebranded as the ''Glasgow Times'' on 4 December 2019.The Sun''
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Daily Mail
The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news websitePeter Wilb"Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain", ''New Statesman'', 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) publish ...
Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...
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Local newspapers are:
*''The Glaswegian'' — Covering Glasgow and parts of East Renfrewshire
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The Digger
''The Digger'' is a 24-page magazine in Glasgow, Scotland which focusses on crime stories. It is published weekly, in an A5 newsletter format. In 2012, the magazine went from newsprint to glossy.
Background
The magazine was founded by James C ...
'' — Mainly covering the North of Glasgow
*''Local News for Southsiders'' — The Southside of Glasgow and the Govan area.
*''The Glasgow East News'' — The East End of the City
*''The West End Mail'' — Partick, West-End and the Northwest outskirts. -Ceased December 2006
*''The Springburn Herald'' — Weekly newspaper covering the area of North Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire
*''G41'' — Monthly community newspaper serving
Dumbreck
Dumbreck ( gd, An Dùn Breac, lit, the Speckled Fort) is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated south of the River Clyde.
Dumbreck is a conservation area.
The district is served by Dumbreck railway station. The only church i ...
Glasgowist A website celebrating the best people and places in Glasgow. Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance Online database of Individuals and Companies working in Film and Television in Glasgow.
Scottish Daily News
The ''Scottish Daily News'' (''SDN'') was a left-of-centre daily newspaper published in Glasgow between 5 May and 8 November 1975. It was hailed as Britain's first worker-controlled, mass-circulation daily, formed as a workers' cooperative by 500 ...
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List of Scotland–based production companies
This is a list of filmmaking companies based in Scotland. The list includes both active and no longer active (defunct) companies. Active production companies are either run by themselves or as a subsidiary of another company.
Notable production c ...
References
Resources
Gurevitch M. Culture, Society and the Media. Routledge: New Ed edition, 1982
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