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BBC Two Scotland was a Scottish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by BBC Scotland as a variation of the BBC Two network. It was broadcast via digital television and was the sister Scottish channel of BBC One Scotland and Gaelic-language BBC Alba.
BBC Scotland (also referred to as the BBC Scotland channel and formerly BBC Two Scotland) is a Scottish free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC Scotland division of the BBC. It airs a nightly lineup of entirely Scottish programming.
A Scotland variant was not launched, as BBC Two Scotland was discontinued in February 2019 in favour of the new BBC Scotland channel. BBC Two Northern Ireland HD later eventually launched on Sky and Freesat on 5 January 2023, with the SD version shutting down on Sky and Freesat on 24 January 2023.
24 February – A new BBC Scotland channel launches and replaces BBC Two Scotland. [328] 26 April – BBC Two airs the debut episode of The Looming Tower, a ten-part dramatisation of non-fiction book of the same name that explores the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda during the years before the 9/11 attacks in 2001. [329] [330]
BBC Two upgraded to PAL colour in 1967 (including Scotland) across the UK, with BBC One (network programmes only at first, with local output still in black-and-white) and STV following in December 1969, and in 1971, BBC Scotland's Queen Margaret Drive Studio "A" in Glasgow became one of the first regional studios in Britain to upgrade to colour.
BBC 2 arrived in Scotland in 1966, two years after its initial launch in London. At first this was a black and white service on 625-lines CCIR System I from the Black Hill transmitter. In 1967, when BBC 2 upgraded to PAL colour across the UK, this included Scotland.
BBC One HD started offering regional services in 2012 with the launch of BBC One Northern Ireland HD, followed by BBC One Scotland HD and BBC One Wales HD in January 2013, English regional variants of BBC One HD started in 2023. BBC Two HD launched regional variants in 2018 for Wales and Northern Ireland whilst both England and Scotland receive ...
4 October – Launch of Newsnight Scotland, the BBC Scotland opt-out of the main Newsnight programme on BBC Two. 31 October – Establishment of TeleG, Scotland's first daily Gaelic language digital channel.