BBC Alba
BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic-language free-to-air public broadcast television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba. The channel was launched on 19 September 2008 and is on-air for up to seven hours a day. The name Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. The station is unique in that it is the first channel to be delivered under a BBC licence by a partnership and was also the first multi-genre channel to come entirely from Scotland with almost all of its programmes made in Scotland.
Logo used since 2021 | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | Pacific Quay (Glasgow) and Stornoway |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Scottish Gaelic |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | BBC and MG Alba |
| Sister channels | BBC One (in Scotland) BBC Two BBC Three BBC Four BBC News BBC Parliament CBBC CBeebies BBC Scotland |
| History | |
| Launched | 19 September 2008 |
| Links | |
| Website | Official website |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview (Scotland only) | Channel 7 (SD) |
| Streaming media | |
| BBC iPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
| TVPlayer | Watch live (UK only) |
As of 2012, BBC Alba had an average viewership of 637,000 adults over the age of 16 in Scotland each week.
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