Reporting Scotland

Reporting Scotland is BBC Scotland's national television news programme. The programme first aired on 1 April 1968, with three main presenters - the most famous being Mary Marquis. It is the only Scottish national news programme in the English language on air, with commercial broadcaster STV providing regional news services for the North of Scotland (including an opt-out for Tayside) and the West and East of Central Scotland. ITV Border's news service is shown in southern Scotland and Cumbria.

History
Although BBC Television had been established in Scotland since February 1952, and had broadcast some opt-out programming, it did not start its Scottish television news service until Friday August 30 1957, initially consisting of a five-minute bulletin at 6.05pm on weekdays and a sports results programme on Saturdays. The BBC was keen to launch the Scottish News Summary ahead of its new commercial rival in the central belt, Scottish Television (STV) - as it turned out, STV began broadcasting the day after the launch of what was the BBC's first regional TV news bulletin. Topical magazine programmes were later introduced to supplement the Scottish news bulletins including Six Ten, A Quick Look Round and a weekly opt-out programme for the North of Scotland entitled Talk of the North.

Reporting Scotland was launched on 1 April 1968 - for much of its earlier history, the programme was presented from Glasgow, Edinburgh & Aberdeen and integrated into the Nationwide strand. As with the other parts of the UK, the Reporting Scotland news team often contributed reports to the Nationwide programme. When Nationwide ended in 1983, Reporting Scotland was briefly replaced by Scotland Sixty Minutes as part of the revamped news programme, Sixty Minutes, but was reinstated in 1984. Since that time, the name "Reporting Scotland" has also been used as the on-screen identity for all of BBC Scotland's television news bulletins.

The viewing figures for the main evening programme average between 500,000 and 600,000. The main transmitters for the programme are those at Durris near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire and Black Hill in North Lanarkshire.

BBC Scotland moved to BBC Pacific Quay in 2007, with Reporting Scotland's first transmission from the new studios taking place on 20 August. The studio backdrop features BBC Scotland's new headquarters on the banks of the Clyde. The new building at Pacific Quay is one of the most modern, state of the art, digital broadcasting facilities in the world, complete with the BBC's first HD-capable newsroom.

Broadcasting
The programme airs several times through the day on BBC One Scotland, currently at the following usual times:-
 * Monday to Friday
 * 5x3 minute & 1x1.30 bulletins during BBC Breakfast (between 06:00 and 09:15)
 * 13:30-13:45, after the BBC News at One
 * A short bulletin at 15:00, following a BBC News summary
 * 18:30-19:00, after the BBC News at Six
 * 22:25-22:35, after the BBC News at Ten
 * Saturday
 * Times vary - lunchtime and early evening
 * Sunday
 * Summary during The Politics Show Scotland, early evening and late night

Along with other BBC Scotland news and current affairs programming, it can be viewed as a live or on-demand (in full or as individual articles) video stream from the online BBC iPlayer.

The programme can also be watched in any part of the UK (and much of Europe) via the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service transmitted from the Astra satellite at 28.2° east:-
 * on channel 101 using Sky-branded proprietary satellite receivers with a Conditional access card associated with an address in Scotland
 * on channel 971 using a Sky-branded receiver with a card associated with a non-Scottish address or with no viewing card
 * on 10803 MHz, 22000Ksps, Horizontal polarisation, FEC 5/6 using a normal satellite receiver

The team
The Reporting Scotland presentation team consists of the following:

The weekend presenter also acts as a reporter.

Sports presenters

 * David Currie (also co-anchor of Sportscene Results)
 * Kheredine Idessane
 * Jane Lewis


 * Rhona McLeod
 * Jonathan Sutherland
 * Dougie Vipond

Weather forecasters

 * Christopher Blanchett
 * Stav Danaos


 * Judith Ralston
 * Gillian Smart

Regional correspondents
West (Glasgow)
 * Suzanne Allan
 * Laura Bicker
 * Raymond Buchanan
 * David Henderson
 * Julie Peacock
 * Catriona Renton

East (Edinburgh)
 * Steven Godden
 * Morag Kinnaburgh
 * Gavin Walker
 * Lisa Summers

North East (Aberdeen)
 * Steven Duff
 * Kevin Keane
 * Fiona Stalker
 * Colin Wight

North (Inverness)
 * Craig Anderson
 * Ian MacDonald
 * Jackie O'Brien

Tayside and Fife (Dundee)
 * Andrew Anderson

South West (Dumfries)
 * Willie Johnston

South East (Selkirk)
 * Cameron Buttle

Orkney and Shetland (Kirkwall)
 * John Johnson

In addition, some other members of the newsroom team and full-time radio reporters occasionally compile reports - as do Gaelic journalists working for BBC Alba.

Specialist correspondents

 * Reevel Alderson (Home Affairs)
 * Eleanor Bradford (Health)
 * Douglas Fraser (Economy and Business Editor)
 * Seonag MacKinnon (Education)
 * Pauline McLean (Arts)


 * Fiona Walker (Social Affairs)
 * Jamie McIvor (Local Government)
 * David Miller (Environment & Climate change)
 * Ken MacDonald (Science)

Political correspondents

 * Brian Taylor (Political Editor)
 * Glenn Campbell (Holyrood)


 * David Porter (Westminster)
 * Tim Reid (Westminster)

Sports correspondents

 * Alisdair Lamont


 * Brian McLauchlin


 * Chris McLaughlin

Past Presenters & Reporters

 * Leslie Anderson (1979 - 2001, now retired)
 * Louise Batchelor (1980s - 1989, 1994 - 2008)
 * Campbell Barclay (Political Reporter, 1976-1982)
 * Ken Bryson
 * Paddy Christie
 * Aileen Clarke (now with Good Morning Scotland)
 * Eric Crockhart
 * John Duncanson
 * Alan Douglas (1978 - 1993)
 * Jane Franchi (1979 - 2003)
 * Fiona Henderson (1988-9; 1991-2006)
 * Viv Lumsden (1984-9)
 * Cathy MacDonald
 * Anne MacKenzie (1995-7)
 * Alan Mackay (1980s - 2007)


 * Abeer MacIntyre (2002-8)
 * Penny Macmillan (1998 - 2007)
 * Eddie Mair (now presenter of BBC Radio 4's PM)
 * Gillian Marles (now with BBC Radio Scotland)
 * Mary Marquis (1968-88, now retired)
 * John Milne (1972 - 2007, now retired)
 * Brenda Patterson
 * Heather Reid (1994 - 2009, now working in academia)
 * Allan Robb
 * David Robertson (2000-8)
 * Kenneth Roy
 * Louise Stewart (now Political Editor, BBC South East)
 * Kirsty Wark (1981-9, now with Newsnight)
 * Bob Wylie
 * Chick Young (now with BBC Radio Scotland)