Media in Glasgow
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This article deals with the Media in Glasgow. The city of
national media
. It hosts the following:
Television
- 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 Group plc, is based in Pacific Quay.[3]
Television programmes set in Glasgow include: .
Radio
- BBC Radio Scotland
- Clyde 1
- Greatest Hits Radio Glasgow & The West
- Capital Scotland
- Eklipse Sports Radio
- Smooth Scotland
- Sunny Govan Radio
- Radio Free Scotland
- Celtic Music Radio
- AWAZ FM
- Insight Radio
- Nation Radio Scotland
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
- 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.
See also
- Media in Scotland
- Scottish Daily News
- List of Scotland–based production companies
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