20-02-2024, 11:50 PM
The only high profile non-news/current affairs programme of moderate success that was ever on BBC Scotland, as far as I can remember, was River City.
Even then, wasn’t it repeated on BBC One Scotland because people didn’t realise the BBC Scotland channel actually existed?
Yes, presumably the news quotas are why they are persevering with The Seven. The move to earlier gets it out the way, enables more sharing of resources with Reporting Scotland and will cut costs.
The BBC One and BBC Two programmes which get displaced by opt-outs are usually repeats or, if needed, are aired later in the day so viewers don’t miss them (pushing back the point that the channel closes and “Joins BBC News”). Either way, since the programmes have aired somewhere in the U.K., they will be available through iPlayer immediately after the network broadcast.
Even then, wasn’t it repeated on BBC One Scotland because people didn’t realise the BBC Scotland channel actually existed?
(20-02-2024, 11:46 PM)tellyblues Wrote: 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
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?
Yes, presumably the news quotas are why they are persevering with The Seven. The move to earlier gets it out the way, enables more sharing of resources with Reporting Scotland and will cut costs.
The BBC One and BBC Two programmes which get displaced by opt-outs are usually repeats or, if needed, are aired later in the day so viewers don’t miss them (pushing back the point that the channel closes and “Joins BBC News”). Either way, since the programmes have aired somewhere in the U.K., they will be available through iPlayer immediately after the network broadcast.