Media in Glasgow

This article deals with the Media in Glasgow. The city of Glasgow, Scotland is home to large sections of the Scottish national media. It hosts the following:

Television

• BBC Scotland — the national broadcaster, based in Pacific Quay Studios at Pacific Quay.[1]
• BBC Alba — a Scottish Gaelic language channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba.[2] It has its headquarters at Pacific Quay.
• STV — (previously known as Scottish Television in Central Scotland, and Grampian Television in Northern Scotland). Scotland's largest independent ITV company, owned by the STV Group plc, based in Pacific Quay.[3]

Television programmes set in Glasgow include: Taggart, Rebus (set in Edinburgh but shot mostly in Glasgow), High Times, Rab C Nesbitt, City Lights, Chewing the Fat, River City, Still Game and Lovesick.

Radio

• BBC Radio Scotland
• Clyde 1
• Clyde 2
• Capital Scotland
• Eklipse Sports Radio
• 105.2 Smooth Radio
• Sunny Govan Radio
• Radio Free Scotland
• Celtic Music Radio
• AWAZ FM
• Insight Radio

Magazines

• bunkered — Scotland's best-selling golf magazine and the biggest-selling golf magazine in the UK per capita.

Newspapers

A number of major Scottish newspapers are published in the city:

• The Daily Record and Sunday Mail — Scotland's best-selling tabloid, based at Central Quay
• The Herald — Scotland's best-selling broadsheet
• The Sunday Herald — its five-year-old sister title
• The Evening Times — an evening tabloid distributed in the west of Scotland

As well as Scottish editions of:

• The Sun
• The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday
• The Times and Sunday Times

Local newspapers are:

• The Glaswegian — Covering Glasgow and parts of East Renfrewshire
• The Digger — Mainly covering the North of Glasgow
• Local News for Southsiders — The Southside of Glasgow and the Govan area.
• The Glasgow East News — The East End of the City
• The West End Mail — Partick, West-End and the Northwest outskirts. -Ceased December 2006 [4]
• The Springburn Herald — Weekly newspaper covering the area of North Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire
• G41 — Monthly community newspaper serving Dumbreck, Pollokshields, Strathbungo, Shawlands and Langside. Published by a social enterprise called Southside Media.

Internet

• Scot24news
• Southside Happenings A local website documenting life on the southside of the city.
• g41.org.uk Citizen journalism website created by Southside Media
• Transform Television Transform TV is Scotland's Community TV Channel on the web by Fablevision
• Glasgowist A website celebrating the best people and places in Glasgow.
• Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance Online database of Individuals and Companies working in Film and Television in Glasgow.

See also

• Media in Scotland
• Scottish Daily News
• List of Scotland–based production companies

References

1. "BBC Scotland headquarters". Clyde Waterfront. Clyde Waterfront. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
2. Scott, Kevin (10 February 2018). "£500,000 funding boost for Gaelic media firm behind BBC Alba". The Herald. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
3. "STV Studios". Doors Open Days. Doors Open Days (Scottish Civic Trust). Retrieved 3 March 2018.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Resources

Gurevitch M. Culture, Society and the Media. Routledge: New Ed edition, 1982