''Scotland 2016'' is a news and current affairs programme from
BBC Scotland News, presented by
Sarah Smith and
Jonathan Sutherland
Jonathan Sutherland (born 1977) is a Scottish television and radio presenter and producer, currently the main presenter of BBC Scotland's Sunday night ''Sportscene'' on BBC One Scotland. He occasionally hosts the ''Sportscene'' Results show on ...
.
Starting 28 May 2014, it was called ''Scotland 2014'' before being renamed to reflect the year. It replaced ''
Newsnight Scotland'' as BBC Scotland's flagship political programme. The half-hour programme aired from 10.30pm Monday to Thursday, opposite STV's ''
Scotland Tonight
''Scotland Tonight'' is a Scottish news and current affairs programme, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by STV News. The programme is presented by ''STV News at Six'' Central anchor John MacKay on ...
'', with ''
Newsnight
''Newsnight'' (or ''BBC Newsnight'') is BBC Two's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines. The programme is broadcast on weekdays at 22:30. and is also availa ...
'' being broadcast in Scotland at 11pm.
History
''Scotland 2014'' was announced in February 2014, part of a major shake-up in BBC Scotland News and current affairs programme in the run up to the 2014
Scottish independence referendum.
It was initially scheduled to run until October of that year.
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stated the series "will demonstrate how Scotland impacts on national and global events and how national and global events impact on Scotland." Presenter
relocated to Scotland from London.
In mid-2016 it was thought that the average audience was around 35,000.
On 21 June 2016 the BBC announced that the show was being discontinued. After its summer break the series returned on 22 August 2016 albeit only being broadcast three nights a week.
In January 2017, the BBC announced its replacement called "Timeline" broadcasting once a week.