[interestednovice]

One odd thing with the BBCs coverage is that viewers in Wales and NI will get the national programme on BBC2, but Scotland have to watch it on the News Channel.

I don't know why they're either not putting it on BBC Scotland, or why those in the other two nations need it on BBC2. I imagine the former requires a bit of extra staffing to do, but then Cardiff and Belfast will need that too

I suppose the BBC, in classic BBC “avoiding audience confusion” style, decided that having the main UK-wide programme on a channel called BBC Scotland, but a Scotland-specific programme on BBC One Scotland at the same time, was just too confusing.

They also seem embarrassed about even having the BBC Scotland channel at all, at this point, so it’s hardly a shock that they are trying to pretend it doesn’t exist.

I imagine that, in reality, we will get a generic reminder during the coverage that “viewers across the UK can watch the (main) programme on the BBC News channel” and the BBC Two option will go unpublicised.

The BBC also do not like to draw attention to BBC Scotland being the spiritual successor to BBC Two Scotland because they don’t want to remind people that they’ve axed a service to create it.