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'''BBC Scotland''' ([[Scottish Gaelic]]: ''BBC Alba'') is a division of the [[BBC]] and the main [[Public broadcasting|public broadcaster]] in [[Scotland]].
It is one of the four BBC national regions, together with the [[BBC English Regions]], [[BBC Cymru Wales]] and [[BBC Northern Ireland]]. Its [[BBC Pacific Quay|headquarters]] are in [[Glasgow]], [[Lanarkshire]]. It employs approximately 1,250 staff as of 2017, to produce 15,000 hours of television and radio programming per year.<ref name="Ken MacQuarrie about the bbc profile">{{cite web|title=Ken MacQuarrie, Director, BBC Scotland|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/macquarrie_ken/|work=About the BBC|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 June 2012}}</ref> Some £320 million of [[television licence|licence fee]] revenue is raised in Scotland, with expenditure on purely local content set to stand at £86 million by 2016–2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=Scottish Government Response to the Third PSB Review consultation |url=https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/57656/scottish_government.pdf |website=Ofcom |access-date=31 January 2022}}</ref> The remainder of licence fee revenue raised in the country is spent on networked programmes shown throughout the UK.
BBC Scotland operates television channels such as the [[BBC One Scotland|Scottish]] variant of [[BBC One]], the [[BBC Scotland (TV channel)|BBC Scotland]] channel and the Gaelic-language channel [[BBC Alba]], and radio stations [[BBC Radio Scotland]] and Gaelic-language [[BBC Radio nan Gàidheal]].
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