Newsnight Scotland
| Newsnight Scotland | |
|---|---|
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| Presented by |
Gordon Brewer, Glenn Campbell |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | BBC Scotland News |
| Location(s) | BBC Pacific Quay, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Running time | 20 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two Scotland |
| Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) |
| Original release | 4 October 1999 – 22 May 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Scotland 2014 (2014-) |
| Related shows |
Newsnight Reporting Scotland' |
Newsnight Scotland was a current affairs television programme, which was broadcast by BBC Scotland from BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow, and was an opt out of the main London-based Newsnight programme. It was broadcast at 11pm from Mondays to Thursdays, replacing the last twenty minutes of Newsnight on BBC Two Scotland.
The programme was presented by Glenn Campbell on Mondays, and Gordon Brewer fronted the programme on Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Isobel Fraser, Sally Magnusson and Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland co-presenter Gary Robertson also appeared on the show as stand-in presenters. In 1999, the programme had a Friday edition with a brief news summary before being dropped. The programme's original presenters were Anne Mackenzie and Gordon Brewer between 1999 and 2007.
It was broadcast from Studio C at Pacific Quay Studios in Glasgow, using the same set as Reporting Scotland.
'Newsnight Scotland' came about as a result of calls for a Scottish-based version of the BBC Six O'Clock News (the so-called "Scottish Six") following the vote in favour of Scottish devolution. As this did not come about a 'compromise' was then reached in 1999, when Newsnight Scotland was devised. Its creation was somewhat controversial, with Jeremy Paxman describing it as a "damn fool idea" and a “dog’s breakfast”, there was also internal and external resistance to the idea of a Scottish opt-out from the network programme. A number of newspapers at the time also predicted its demise.
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