Audience Council Scotland

The ACS holds a number of public engagement events throughout the year across the country and meets monthly to discuss issues concerning audiences.

The ACS also publishes an account of its activities and assessment in the BBC Scotland Annual Review[3] There are other councils for the other three nations in Wales, England and Northern Ireland.

The minutes show that the Council offered strategic guidance on many key broadcasting issues over the years; from the extension of the transmitter network to the north and west to the development of BBC television output for Scotland in the 1950s.

'The prime need', wrote the Council in its section of the BBC Annual Handbook in 1958, 'is to correct the inescapable predominance of English and metropolitan interests'.

In 1975 the National Governor of the time, Lady Avonside, recommended to the Annan Committee on broadcasting that there should be more Scottish material, the development of community radio.