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, is 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

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.
Glasgow Keelie A mutual-aid based monthly newspaper covering events in the Glasgow area^[5]

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.

References

^ "BBC Scotland headquarters". Clyde Waterfront. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
^ Scott, Kevin (10 February 2018). "£500,000 funding boost for Gaelic media firm behind BBC Alba". The Herald. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
^ "STV Studios". Doors Open Days. Doors Open Days (Scottish Civic Trust). Retrieved 3 March 2018.
^ "Journalism jobs and news from Holdthefrontpage.co.uk". Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
^ Glasgow Keelie - https://glasgowkeelie.org/about/ Retrieved 22/09/2022

Resources

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

[1] "BBC Scotland headquarters". 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] "Journalism jobs and news from Holdthefrontpage.co.uk". Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2010.

[5] Glasgow Keelie - https://glasgowkeelie.org/about/ Retrieved 22/09/2022

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