page_title: BBC Scotland
section_title: Studios - past and present
hierarchical_section_title: BBC Scotland / Studios - past and present
caption_attribution_description: English: BBC Scotland. The former HQ of BBC Scotland on Queen Margaret Drive, opposite the Botanic Gardens. The new HQ at Pacific Quay 579681 opened recently.
context_page_description: BBC Scotland is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.
  It is one of the three BBC national regions, together with BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Northern Ireland. Its headquarters are in Glasgow, it employs approximately 1,250 staff as of 2017, to produce 15,000 hours of television and radio programming per year. Some £320 million of licence fee revenue is raised in Scotland, with expenditure on purely local content set to stand at £86 million by 2016-17. The remainder of licence fee revenue raised in the country is spent on networked programmes shown throughout the UK.
  BBC Scotland operates the regional variant of BBC One, the BBC Scotland channel, BBC Radio Scotland, as well as radio and television outlets, Radio nan Gàidheal and BBC Alba, which broadcasts in the Scottish Gaelic language.
context_section_description: When BBC Television first came to Scotland, there were no dedicated studios and Scotland shared an outside broadcast unit with BBC North in Manchester.  Apart from a limited news service, all programmes about Scotland had to be transmitted from London and had to have an appeal to a UK audience.
  When the new commercial broadcaster, Scottish Television, 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.
  In the early 60s, the BBC acquired land adjacent to its Queen Margaret Drive base and eventually three colour studios were built together with significant radio facilities and a Film Unit with its own film processing.  The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra had access to a large sound studio - Studio 1.
  A constant theme of the early days of BBC Scotland was where its headquarters should be sited - Edinburgh or Glasgow?  On a number of occasions, Edinburgh had victory snatched from its grasp.
  BBC Scotland's headquarters are currently located at BBC Pacific Quay on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow. The studio centre was constructed between 2004 and 2006 and was opened in 2007. Designed by David Chipperfield and reportedly costing £188 million, the studio contains three television studios and five radio studios as well as the first HD newsroom used by the BBC.
  BBC Pacific Quay is now one of the busiest studio facilities in Scotland, home to many in-house and independent productions over the years including:
  1001 Things You Should Know
  All Round to Mrs. Brown's
  Break the Safe
  Catchpoint
  Celebrity Fifteen to One
  Curious Creatures
  Eggheads (TV series)
  Fifteen to One
  For Facts Sake
  Hardball
  Head Hunters (game show)
  Hole in the Wall (British game show)
  Impossible (game show)
  Partners in Rhyme
  The Dog Ate My Homework
  The National Lottery: In It to Win It
  The Time It Takes
  The Weakest Link (British game show)
  Top Class
  Letterbox
  Life of Riley (British TV series)
  Mrs Brown's Boys
  Officially Amazing
  Ready Steady Cook
  Richard Osman's House of Games
  Swashbuckle (TV series)
  The Hit List (game show)
  Think Tank (game show)
  Who Dares Wins (British game show)
  
  Upon the launch of the BBC in Scotland in 1923, the service originally occupied Rex House at 202 Bath Street, Glasgow, before moving to properties in Blythswood Square and subsequently in West George Street. In 1929, the decision was made to move the headquarters operation to Queen Street, Edinburgh, where the Edinburgh station had been based since 1924 following a move from the original 79 George Street premises. However, in 1935 the headquarters operation moved back to Glasgow as it accompanied the Glasgow station at North Park House, Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, near to the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. BBC Scotland remained based at these premises until the move to Pacific Quay in 2007. The Edinburgh operation remained on Queen Street until the move to The Tun in April 2002. The Tun building is near to the Scottish Parliament building and contains television and radio studios in addition to a newsroom.
  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. Of these, the latter two locations operate radio opt-outs from BBC Radio Scotland while the Aberdeen, Inverness, Selkirk and Dumfries newsrooms produce local radio bulletins for the North East, Highlands & Islands, Borders and South West respectively.
  In addition to these premises, BBC Scotland operates a drama productions studio at Dumbarton on the site of a disused whisky distillery. It is the main Scottish drama facilities where programmes such as Still Game and River City are recorded. Also, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is resident at Glasgow City Halls having been based at Queen Margaret D
caption: BBC Scotland's former headquarters on Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow
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