BBC Scotland

<p>BBC Scotland is a division of the <a href="/facts/BBC/qFateIz8">BBC</a> and the main <a href="/facts/Public_broadcaster/Ez3ayURb">public broadcaster</a> in <a href="/facts/Scotland/VGwbbxB2">Scotland</a>. Its <a href="/facts/BBC_Pacific_Quay/nSDakrJU">headquarters</a> are in <a href="/facts/Glasgow/hHUX44Ra">Glasgow</a>, employing approximately 1,250 staff as of 2017, to produce 15,000 hours of television and radio programming per year. BBC Scotland operates television channels such as the <a href="/facts/BBC_One_Scotland/PzysqFN7">Scottish</a> variant of <a href="/facts/BBC_One/t4SaSm6X">BBC One</a>, the <a href="/facts/BBC_Scotland_(TV_channel)/Eg6TcLAK">BBC Scotland</a> channel and the Gaelic-language channel <a href="/facts/BBC_Alba/R4ep0Uw3">BBC Alba</a>, and radio stations <a href="/facts/BBC_Radio_Scotland/AbUKuUk7">BBC Radio Scotland</a> and Gaelic-language <a href="/facts/BBC_Radio_nan_G%C3%A0idheal/xC3aSfgS">BBC Radio nan Gàidheal</a>.
</p><p>It is one of the four BBC national broadcasters, together with  the <a href="/facts/BBC_English_Regions/yrMXXF7w">BBC English Regions</a>, <a href="/facts/BBC_Cymru_Wales/AGa68WsP">BBC Cymru Wales</a> and <a href="/facts/BBC_Northern_Ireland/wKy1I7wJ">BBC Northern Ireland</a>. Some £320 million of <a href="/facts/Licence_fee/56hPfkjo">licence fee</a> revenue is raised in Scotland, with expenditure on purely local content set to stand at £86 million by 2016–2017. The remainder of licence fee revenue raised in the country is spent on networked programmes shown throughout the UK, with BBC Scotland producing over 880 hours worth of programming for UK–wide broadcast on <a href="/facts/BBC_One/t4SaSm6X">BBC One</a>, <a href="/facts/BBC_Two/TErpjSD4">BBC Two</a>, <a href="/facts/BBC_Three/ezAHaSwP">BBC Three</a>, <a href="/facts/CBBC/coLp8mYX">CBBC</a> and <a href="/facts/CBeebies/wnqbD7JC">CBeebies</a>. BBC Scotland output reached on average 94% of Scottish audiences in July 2013.
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