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Published Date: 14 August 2008
By JOHN ROSS
ELVIS Presley will help launch the first dedicated Gaelic television channel next month, it was announced yesterday.
BBC Alba will start at 9pm on 19 September with a new drama starring Greg Hemphill, the Chewin' the Fat star, as Elvis and a live concert from Skye.

Over the coming months, the channel aims to broadcast a wide range of sport, news, children's show
s, documentaries and entertainment.

It will show one Scottish Premier League match a week on an as-live basis, some three hours after the final whistle.

BBC Alba will be on satellite and cable all over the UK, with content also available online. After the digital switchover, it will be available on Freeview in Scotland only, subject to a review by the BBC Trust.

The service is being delivered through a partnership between the BBC and MG Alba, formerly the Gaelic Media Service, who together will provide digital television, radio and online services in Gaelic.

Ken MacQuarrie, the controller of BBC Scotland, said: "The launch next month of BBC Alba is the realisation of a long-held ambition of the Gaelic community and an achievement for those who worked so hard to bring it about.

"BBC Alba will offer a new and enhanced service to the Gaelic audience."



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  • Last Updated: 13 August 2008 10:24 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Chaplin,

14/08/2008 06:15:04
We must have money to burn.
2

eric,

14/08/2008 07:43:13
Elvis is a stiff!
3

Boy Wonder,

14/08/2008 07:59:33
Elvis is bones.
4

Duine,

Inbhir Nis 14/08/2008 09:42:44
Tha coltas air mar phrògram is thòiseachadh a bhios gu math cruthachail agus èibhinn. Tha sinn a' dèanamh fiughair ris! (Bidh e sgoinneil co-dhiù a bhith a' cluinntinn Greg Hemphill a' feuchainn ri beagan Gàidhlig a bhruidhinn :) )

Looks like a creative and entertaining start to the service, we all look forward to its launch and practical use. Fwiw, many other articles are apparently trying to make a point of the 'millions' that will be spent on BBC Alba - conveniently failing to recognise that annually and in comparative terms, the channel wil be operating on a very tight budget. Its income as a whole appears puny next to the salaries of many TV personalities. If they can produce good quality broadcasting with what they've got they'd be doing inredibly well.

No, they don't have money to burn in providing this much-needed service to Gaelic speakers.
5

Jacqueline Hyde ,

On the shelf 14/08/2008 10:00:35
I suppose that as Elton John was chosen as the keynote, showpiece act for the Highland Year of Culture, we could do worse than Elvis and someone from a Weegie comedy show.

Somehow, I think we could have done a bit better too for such a long-awaited and much overdue television channel. It does seem a tad unfair that our culture and heritage should still be subject to the whims and fancies of BBC Glasgow and London.
6

TimW1234,

Ottawa, Canada 14/08/2008 11:34:01
I did not know that Elvis Presley was a Scot.
7

bill-alba,

fife 14/08/2008 11:50:58
As a very slow learner of gaelic I look forward to watching the channel, I hope their news program is of EORPA's standard.
8

lulach mac gille coemgain,

14/08/2008 13:39:17
#6 yup! Elvis IS a Scot

Andrew Presley who married Elsbeth Leg August 27th 1713 at the Lonmay Church in Aberdeenshire. It was Andrew's son, also called Andrew, who was forced to flee Scotland in 1745 at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion and went to the Americas to settle in South Carolina. It is Andrew Presley who was Elvis Presley's long lost G-G-G-G-Grandparent.
9

mobocaster,

Aberdeen 02/09/2008 12:26:48
Elvis may well have had Scottish roots but lie in the part of Scotland where Doric is the primary tounge, not Gaelic.
10

Conrad Penman,

Kirkcaldy 09/05/2009 23:53:20
Elvis may Be Bones now An a Stiff as one of you sald but i will tell you this he is still the King open your eyes lol. Elvis never died his Body did cant you see his music is everywhere lol

 

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