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Papers
The most popular newspaper in Scotland is the
Daily Record which is circulated widely. For overall national news the best newspaper is
The Scotsman, it has good coverage of both Scottish and UK news and foreign news
as well as material on the arts and business. The Glasgow Herald is another popular
newspaper but does not quite have national status yet. The most popular Sunday paper is
the Sunday Post.
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Local Papers
Some of the larger towns and
cities have daily local papers which carry mostly local and some national news. Other
towns have local weekly's which are mostly based on local news and events and usually
locally informative.
The cities have daily evening
papers which usually have good guides on entertainment, arts, theatre and sport.
Magazines
Scotland is poorly served by
magazines, Radical Scotland is the main current affairs magazine and it's monthly.
The Edinburgh Review is a literary review of consistent quality. English weeklies
are widely available.
Radio
Radio in Scotland is of a high
quality, Radio Scotland is the main BBC radio service, other national BBC radio
stations also operate in Scotland, such as Radio 1 a general pop station with
national news. Radio 2 concentrates on light entertainment and sport. Radio 3
is much the same as radio 2. Radio 4 is a mixture of news, current affairs
and light entertainment. Most areas in Scotland carry their own local station usually
playing general pop music with national and local news as well as traffic reports every
half hour.
Television
Television in Scotland is
excellent, the five main stations are BBC1 a general TV station covering a full
spectrum of programs with no commercial breaks in-between. BBC2 tends to cater for
not so popular interest, this station is also commercial free. STV is a commercial
station and is a good alternative to BBC1, this station has more local broadcasts on it. Ch4
is a fairly new comer and reorganise the existence of a more specialist audiences. CH5
is the newest station of them all, it has only been running a few years and it is already
regarded as good as BBC1 and ITV.
In recent years satellite and
cable has become more popular giving the viewer more choice, but I have still to come
across a station that comes even close to the quality of broadcasting that we have been
used to for so many years from the BBC, STV, CH4 and CH5.
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