Hogmanay Live

Hogmanay Live
Hogmanay Live Branding
Genre	Entertainment
Created by	BBC Scotland
Presented by	Jackie Bird
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
Production
Location(s)	BBC Pacific Quay, Glasgow / Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh
Running time	60 minutes (Often with a preview programme earlier in the evening)
Release
Original network	BBC One Scotland BBC Red Button BBC Online
Original release	31 December 1991 – present
External links
Website

Hogmanay Live is BBC Scotland's annual live event programme broadcast from either Edinburgh Castle's Great Hall or BBC Pacific Quay on Hogmanay (New Year's Eve). Regardless of location, the programme rings in the New Year with the firing of Edinburgh Castle's One O'Clock Gun and the subsequent fireworks and celebrations in Edinburgh. The programme features a mixture of Scottish contemporary and folk music, with some past programming also featuring live coverage of parts of the Princes Street concert in Edinburgh, Its current presenter is Jackie Bird, Bird and Phil Cunningham often hosted together each year but since 2008 she has been the host every year. Cunningham does however still appear on the program just not as a host. Carol Kirkwood reported on the 2016 edition of the show live from Edinburgh Castle. The show currently is hosted live from The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, until 2013 Bird was live from Edinburgh Castle or Princes Street but the show's producers decided that it should take place in Scotland's Largest and most popular city.

The programme has its roots in The White Heather Club which preceded it. Whilst Hogmanay Live is vastly different nowadays from the programme that came before it, The White Heather Club brought the Scottish tradition of Hogmanay to television for the first time. Various incarnations and evolutions of the show have appeared over the years, such as The Hogmanay Show, which blend the old with the new and mark the beginning of a New Year from a distinctly Scottish perspective. Hogmanay Live, briefly renamed New Year Live when it was networked in 1998, has continued this tradition, giving viewers a chance to both reflect on the year gone by and look forward to the year ahead in a uniquely Scottish fashion.

The programme is broadcast throughout the United Kingdom on BBC One Scotland. The BBC London celebration, New Year Live is also available in Scotland via digital television as well as BBC Two's Hootenanny with Jools Holland.