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It's been ages since any viewing figures for BBC Scotland have been revealed but the BBC will only do it themselves if they look good.

I would have thought The Nine would be the last thing to go on the channel seeing as though there is a strict requirement to have news but it appears there is a workaround by having more episodes of Debate Night and various other things to please Ofcom.

The channel has been a benefit to the production sector in Scotland with some shows that wouldn't have been made otherwise but once enough of that content had been produced, the remit allowed the BBC to drastically reduce the amount of commissioning over time and the misleading "50% old 50% new" soundbite used to sell the channel at first could still apply and the BBC couldn't be accused of doing anything wrong. Now there are production companies sitting doing nothing on the basis of a technicality.

Since there is little in the way of commissioning now and everything which has been made is on iPlayer, most of the new stuff could be put on BBC1/2 and the channel run to a bare minimum to meet quotas, although what about the shows that are displaced on BBC1/2? Surely these audiences are important too?