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BBC Alba
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<p>BBC Alba is a <a href="/facts/Scottish_Gaelic/KMI4MmzJ">Scottish Gaelic</a>-language <a href="/facts/Free-to-air/onRfErjl">free-to-air</a> public broadcast television channel jointly owned by the <a href="/facts/BBC/qFateIz8">BBC</a> and <a href="/facts/MG_Alba/7XxkMcwB">MG Alba</a>. The channel was launched on 19 September 2008 and is on-air for up to seven hours a day. The name <i><i><a href="/facts/Alba/Nb4aqMrx">Alba</a></i></i> is the Scottish Gaelic name for <a href="/facts/Scotland/VGwbbxB2">Scotland</a>. The station is unique in that it is the first channel to be delivered under a BBC licence by a partnership and was also the first multi-genre channel to come entirely from Scotland with almost all of its programmes made in Scotland. </p><p>As of 2012,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BBC_Alba&action=edit">[update]</a> BBC Alba had an average viewership of 637,000 adults over the age of 16 in Scotland each week. </p>