BBC Scotland
BBC executives are pressing for the corporation to commission a flagship “Scottish Six” news programme to help answer growing complaints about its weak coverage of Scottish affairs, the Guardian has learned.
Executives in BBC Scotland are expected to lobby Tony Hall, the corporation’s director general, to agree to the proposal when he comes to Glasgow next week to attend a meeting of its governing body, the BBC Trust, which will also be briefed on the plan.
They want Hall to authorise a significant expansion of its news and programme-making budget from about £35m to £100m a year when he finalises the BBC’s proposals for charter renewal next year, including funding a third national radio service for Scotland.
BBC Scotland executives are thought to be focusing on these proposals after being forced to shelve far more ambitious plans to add an extra digital television channel and new online programming in the wake of swingeing spending cuts.
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