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Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ALBA Gaelic Digital Service

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  Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ALBA can be viewed on the following platforms:

  - Sky 143 (UK)

  - Freeview / You View 8 (Scotland only)

  - Virgin Media 161 (UK)

  - Freesat 110 (UK)

  - BT Vision 8 (Scotland only)

  - Smallworld 170 (Ayrshire and North West England)

  - Live on Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ iPlayer (UK)

• Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ALBA

  A digital TV channel broadcasting Gaelic programmes daily

  Programming includes news, Scottish sport, music, factual, children’s and entertainment programmes.

• Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio nan Gàidheal

  The national Gaelic radio station from the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ

  Broadcast on radio in Scotland, streamed live and available on-demand at bbc.co.uk/radionangaidheal and as the sustaining service on digital TV when the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ALBA TV channel is off-air.

• Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ALBA Online

  Online Gaelic content from bbcalba.co.uk:

  bbc.co.uk/bbcalba – Gaelic digital TV channel information website

  bbc.co.uk/radionangaidheal – Radio nan Gàidheal website

  bbcalba.co.uk – Online news, weather, learning resources, vocabulary translator and youth pages.

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  FAQs

  Answers to further Frequently Asked Questions regarding the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ALBA channel can be found on the website.

• Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ MG ALBA Partnership

  Meadhanan Gàidhlig Alba (Gaelic Media Scotland) and the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ are working in partnership to deliver the new Gaelic digital television service. The partnership operates at both a corporate and an operational level with staff from both organisations working to deliver the new service. Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ALBA's Head of Service is Margaret Mary Murray (a Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ employee) working with MG ALBA's Head of Content, Alan Esslemont. Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ALBA has no formal headquarters. Its staff and operation are based across Scotland, in Stornoway, Inverness and Glasgow.

  MG ALBA is the organisation responsible for ensuring that a diverse range of high quality programmes in Gaelic are made available to people in Scotland by funding, commissioning or producing for television, radio, online and new media and by engaging in training, development and audience research. Programmes for Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ALBA are produced by the independent sector, the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ and STV.

  The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ is not responsible for the content of external websites.