Its headquarters are in Glasgow, employing approximately 1,250 staff as of 2017, to produce 15,000 hours of television and radio programming per year.

[4] Named 5SC and located in Bath Street in Glasgow, the services gradually expanded to include the new stations 2BD, 2DE and 2EH, based at Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh respectively.

[9] The BBC's flagship political and debating programme, Question Time, had its permanent base moved to Glasgow in 2009.

The flagship news programme BBC Reporting Scotland is presented by Laura Miller and Sally Magnusson.

It would broadcast from 7:00 p.m. to midnight nightly, and feature a lineup composed entirely of new and archived Scottish programming, including a new hour-long 9:00 p.m. weeknight newscast that will be produced from Scotland.

Hall also announced that the BBC would increase its overall spending on factual and drama productions in Scotland by £20 million annually.

The channel is allocated £32 million in annual funding, and its SD variant has displaced BBC Four on the Freeview EPG.

The department also provides content from Scotland on these subjects to the website and for the BBC Red Button interactive TV service.

[citation needed] BBC Scotland previously offered a podcast download of the top news items of the week[20] and the online streaming of several key sections of output.

Working with new and emerging talent, The Social develops daily content on a range of subjects including issues, comedy, music, lifestyle and gaming.

Launched in December 2015, The Social won a Royal Television Scotland award for Best Digital Innovation in 2016 and another in 2018 for the shortform drama Kidder.

[23] When the new commercial broadcaster, Scottish Television (STV), was about to arrive in 1957, BBC Scotland managed to produce slightly improved news coverage by a complicated arrangement involving the newsroom in Queen Margaret Drive in the west of the city and the former Black Cat Cinema in Springfield Road in the east where The White Heather Club was made.

[33] The studio centre was constructed between July 2004 and August 2006 and was opened in September 2007 by then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

[36] In addition to the Glasgow and Edinburgh bases of the broadcaster, BBC Scotland also has offices and studios located in Aberdeen, Dundee, Portree, Stornoway, Inverness, Selkirk, Dumfries, Kirkwall and Lerwick.

[37] In addition to these premises, BBC Scotland operates a drama productions studio at Dumbarton on the site of a disused whisky distillery.

[38][39] Also, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is resident at Glasgow City Halls[40] having been based at Queen Margaret Drive until 2006.

[42] Output for the British network has included such recent high-profile dramas as Shetland, Hope Springs, Waterloo Road and Single Father.

BBC Scotland also produces the Scottish opt-out sections of British-wide programmes such as Sunday Politics and Children in Need.

From 1968, as well as the flagship evening news programme Reporting Scotland, presented by Mary Marquis and Douglas Kynoch, with contributions from Renton Laidlaw in Edinburgh and Donny B. MacLeod in Aberdeen, there were popular current affairs series such as Compass, Checkpoint with Professor Esmond Wright and Magnus Magnusson, Person to Person with Mary Marquis, Current Account, Public Account and Agenda.

In recent years, BBC Scotland comedy shows such as Mrs. Brown's Boys,[51][52] Two Doors Down[53][54] and Mountain Goats.

The announcers were "self-op" - they had to speak and press the buttons to change the sound and picture and cue in telecine (film), videotape recordings (VTR) and live programmes.

Mark Stephen often came perilously close to sending up programmes with his good-natured humour; links of his included: Peter Cushing stars in our late night horror film in 50 minutes.