''Telefios'' was 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 News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either video production, produced local programming, ...

, broadcast on both

Grampian Television Grampian Television was the original name of the Channel 3 service for the north of Scotland founded in 1961 and now named STV. The northern region's coverage area includes the Northern Isles, Western Isles, Highlands (except Fort William and ...

and

Scottish Television Scottish Television (now, legally, known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV network franchisee for Central Scotland. The channel — the largest of the three ITV franchises in Scotland — has been in operation since 31 August 1957 and is the ...

from 4 January 1993 until 2000. Its name is a ''

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"). Although not strictly a local news bulletin, the programme concentrated mainly on

Western Isles The Outer Hebrides () or Western Isles ( gd, Na h-Eileanan Siar or or ("islands of the strangers"); sco, Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle/Long Island ( gd, An t-Eilean Fada, links=no), is an island chain off the west coas ...

news, and specifically Gaelic interest news stories from elsewhere. Five-minute bulletins were shown on weekday lunchtimes (and later, in the early evening) while a supplementary half-hour review programme, ''Telefios na Seachduinn'', was broadcast on Saturday lunchtime.

Other Scottish Gaelic news programmes

It is sometimes wrongly stated that ''Telefios'' was actually the first Scottish Gaelic news programme. In fact, ''Criomagan'' (meaning "little bits") was broadcast during the late 1980s and early 1990s by Grampian Television. Following the axing of ''Telefios'' in 2000, no Scots Gaelic television news programmes were broadcast until September 2008 when the Gaelic digital channel,

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 ...

, launched a nightly half-hour programme entitled ''

An Là ''An Là'' (''The Day'') is a Scottish Gaelic-language news programme broadcast on the Gaelic-language channel, BBC Alba. The programme, based at BBC Alba's newsroom in Inverness, began at 8pm on 22 September 2008 and provides a 30-minute bul ...

'' and a weekly hour-long review programme entitled ''

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 Sundays ...

''.

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