Gaelic Digital Service
Gaelic Media Service and the BBC have announced that around 1.5 hour of television content daily will be new material. An outline schedule in the service proposition submitted to the BBC Trust in 2007 included the following genres:
| Genre | No, days shown | Days | duration Daily(hrs) | notes |
| Children's | 5 | Mon-Fri | 1 | includes programmes like De a-Nis? |
| News | 5 | Mon-Fri | 0.45 | Broadcast 3 times a day. Including Weather reports. |
| Sport | 5 | Mon, Thu-Sun | 1.30-2 | |
| Lifestyle | 5 | Mon-Fri | 1- 1.30 | |
| Music | 2 | Wed, Sun | 1.30-4 | |
| Religion | 1 | Sun | 2.30 | |
| Education | 2 | Tues, Sat | 1-4 | includes learning resources for Learners of Gaelic |
| Factual | 3 | Tue, Thu,Sun | 4 |
Source:BBC trust Note: these are only Guidelines on what the schedule will be like.
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Funding
The channel will be funded by the Gaelic Media Service, which is financed by the Scottish Government, and BBC Scotland.
The BBC's existing spend is £3.2 million on radio content and £2.1 million for TV and online. The BBC will contribute an additional £2.5 million to the new channel. (BBC figures exclude distribution costs.) The Gaelic Media Service will apply the majority of its budget (£12.4 million in 2008/09) to the Gaelic Digital Service.
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See also
- BBC Alba
- Gaelic Media Service
- TG4 - Irish language terrestrial TV station.
- Bòrd na Gàidhlig
- List of Celtic language media
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References
- ^ "Gaelic digital TV channel debated", bbc.co.uk, 29 August 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-03.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/local/alba_eng.shtml
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External links
- Gaelic Digital Service proposals at bbc.co.uk
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