''Good Morning Scotland'' is a Scottish morning news and current affairs radio programme on

BBC Radio Scotland BBC Radio Scotland is a Scottish national radio network owned and operated by BBC Scotland, a division of the BBC. It broadcasts a wide variety of programmes. It replaced the Scottish BBC Radio 4 opt-out service of the same name from 23 N ...

, broadcast weekdays from 06:00 to 09:00 and produced by BBC News Scotland. It was established in 1973, making it the longest-running radio show broadcast from Scotland and remains one of the most popular. Based in many respects on

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's ''Today'' programme, it consists of regular news, sport, business, travel and weather bulletins along with interviews, in-depth reports and a daily religious slot ''Thought for the Day''.

History

The programme was launched on the morning of 31 December 1973 with presenters David Findlay and John Milne. Prior to ''GMS'', radio producers Geoff Cameron and Allan Muirhead were responsible for producing a daily opt-out from ''Today'', called ''Today in Scotland''. Its popularity led to the subsequent Good Morning Scotland. In 1980, to celebrate 50 years of broadcasting from the BBC's Edinburgh studios at Queen Street, ''Good Morning Scotland'' was simulcast on BBC One Scotland for a week, pioneering breakfast television on the BBC ( ITV station

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had broadcast a breakfast programme for six weeks during 1977 and thus laid claim to the first semi-regular British breakfast television broadcast). In 2006 there some major changes to the show, including a change of presenters with Gary Robertson brought in. The programme had an estimated 455,000 listeners in 2008, which fell to 380,000 the following year. In early 2015, weekend editions of the programme were introduced and broadcast from 08:00 - 10:00. From February 2021, ''Good Morning Scotland'' has been broadcast from Mondays to Saturdays, whilst it was replaced on Sundays by ''Sunday Morning'', a faith-based programme, which was replaced from its 10:00 - 12:00 slot by ''

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''.

Local variations

The first half of the programme is also broadcast on

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's Gaelic-language station, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal before its Gaelic counterpart ''Aithris Na Maidne'' (''Morning Report'') begins at 07:30. Listeners in Orkney opt-out between 07:30 and 08:00 for Around Orkney, a 30-minute magazine programme with features, local news and weather, diary, jobspot, mart report and postbag. There are also local news opt-outs from Selkirk for the Borders, Dumfries for the South West, Aberdeen for the North East and Inverness for the Highlands.

Current presenters

* Gary Robertson (Monday-Thursday) * Laura Maxwell (Monday-Thursday) * Graham Stewart (Relief/Fridays) * Laura Maciver (Relief/Fridays) * Andrew Black (Relief) * Lucy Whyte (Relief) * Fiona Stalker (Relief) * Hope Webb (Relief)

Former presenters

* John Milne * Douglas Kynoch *

Mary Marquis Mary Elizabeth Marquis (born 11 March 1934), born as Mary Elizabeth Caughie, is a former leading interviewer and presenter on BBC Scotland from the mid-1960s, and became the face of the network's evening news programme ''Reporting Scotland'' un ...

* James Cox * Mike Russell * Joanna Buchan * Neville Garden * Eddie Mair * Louise White * Anne MacKenzie (1995–1997) * Derek Bateman (1996–2006) * Mhairi Stuart (1999–2006) * Abeer MacIntyre * Gillian Marles (2005–2009) * Aasmah Mir (2009)

''Morning Extra''

''Morning Extra'' was an associated

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programme broadcast from 09.05 - 10.00. Presented by Graham Stewart, it usually debated one of the biggest stories running on Good Morning Scotland. It was previously only 40 minutes long but was extended in 2008 to an hour. The programme was axed in 2010 and replaced with a phone-in, ''Call Kaye'', presented by Kaye Adams (later replaced by ''Morning Call''). The last edition of ''Morning Extra'' aired on 26 February.

References

External links

* {{British radio breakfast shows BBC Radio Scotland programmes 1973 radio programme debuts British radio breakfast shows Radio in Scotland