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They gave it a good shot - but as has been said, it was never going to set the heather alight. It's been interesting over the past couple of years how the likes of Martin Geisler and others who were the 'faces' of the The Nine have moved on to other (higher rating) BBC Scotland output.

No doubt we'll see some politicians wail about it and call again for a Scottish Six. Plus, I really doubt you're going to have an audience hungry to watch an hour long Scotland-based programme 6-7; the current set up might not be perfect, but it works.

I'd be far more interested in getting BBC Two Scotland back, and a regular political programme - the early days of devolution (when the powers of Holyrood were fewer) had a far better choice of political programmes from Scotland. Yes, Newsnight Scotland wasn't my first choice back in the day - but looking back, it was better to have that than any of the imitations (Scotland 2014 anyone?) we had since then. There was the original Politics Scotland with Iain Macwhirter (Thursday evenings??), Politics Show Scotland, and of course Holyrood Live.

The new TV/radio podcast mentioned could be quite interesting though. I'm a big fan of BBC Podlitical, so hope they do something along those lines; perhaps a Scottish version of Newscast?

I think you’re spot on. We definitely got better shows for Scotland before this channel was launched. The one saving grace has definitely been the opportunity it’s given to new presenters or under used hosts to get better exposure. It’s also benefited Radio Scotland with many of the BBC Scotland presenters now hosting there too.


To the other poster, Im not claiming English only stories are irrelevant, far from it. It’s just more challenging to deliver news that is truly relevant when you have devolution. It also starves English viewers of more probing, local stories, but that’s a bigger debate for another time.

What we can probably all agree is that the BBC needs to get more strategic in its thinking. We seem to now constantly lurch from one reactive impulse decision to the next. It must be exhausting for BBC staffers and takes away from the good things the BBC does. All a bit of a shame really.