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Don't be hard on the OP for not knowing that Alba is the Gaelic name of Scotland. As only 1.1 % of Scots actually speak Gaelic the majority of Scots wouldn't have know it either.

Although the BBC are happy to provide a broadcasting service for just 54,000 people in Scotland (1% of the population) they call their North East regional service BBC Newcastle and refuse to acknowledge that nearly a million people who can receive that service don't actually live in Newcastle. No wonder to those outside of the region their perception of the North East is just "Newcastle"
 
I used to watch it when Rangers were in the lower leagues but absolutely no idea what the hell they were talking about ??

Where I live in Caithness , Gaelic has never been spoken yet the Scottish government insist on Gaelic and English signs . Our ancestors were from Norway , hence all the names of places have Norse meaning , Thurso - thors bay , Wick - means bay lybster. Mybster nybster camster - Ster means settlement in Norse

Gaelic tv can fuck off
 
Lord Potts said:
Don't be hard on the OP for not knowing that Alba is the Gaelic name of Scotland. As only 1.1 % of Scots actually speak Gaelic the majority of Scots wouldn't have know it either.

Although the BBC are happy to provide a broadcasting service for just 54,000 people in Scotland (1% of the population) they call their North East regional service BBC Newcastle and refuse to acknowledge that nearly a million people who can receive that service don't actually live in Newcastle. No wonder to those outside of the region their perception of the North East is just "Newcastle"
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I hate BBC Radio Bristol for the same reasons.
 
Lord Potts said:
Don't be hard on the OP for not knowing that Alba is the Gaelic name of Scotland. As only 1.1 % of Scots actually speak Gaelic the majority of Scots wouldn't have know it either.

Although the BBC are happy to provide a broadcasting service for just 54,000 people in Scotland (1% of the population) they call their North East regional service BBC Newcastle and refuse to acknowledge that nearly a million people who can receive that service don't actually live in Newcastle. No wonder to those outside of the region their perception of the North East is just "Newcastle"
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There are very few people in Scotland don't know Alba is Gaelic for Scotland, even less speak Latin yet they know where Caledonia is.

The BBC works really hard at pleasing no one - resources (not much mind) go into BBC Alba, for political reasons, but I remember a stat that said something like it takes under a Million people to get a radio station in England (fair bit less if you take out London), but 5 Million to get one for Geographically over a third of the UK in Scotland - and it isn't local radio as everyone else knows it anyway, it's a Scottish version of Radio 4. Same licence fee.

But, rant over, you're spot on about the naming process of the local radios, you get "Coventry & Warwickshire", yet some designed to cover whole regions are named after one place and other get named after whole areas. No logic to it at all. In the North-East its another piece of the whole Newcastle-centric propaganda that the main line railway route opened the door to and the John Hall empire put the cherry on top of the cake of. Both channels in the North-East are laughable in their coverage. It doesn't help that Newcastle starts with N (car reg plates are 'North') and the second letter is E (postcodes NE) - I've heard folk from Newcastle who genuinely thought it was 'Newcastle' in both cases, and so do many around the country I'm sure.
 
BBC 3 counties radio doesn't even tell you which 3 counties in the name.
 
All of this made me think of the long term Communist leader of the country, Enver Hoxha. He became famous, mainly, for banning beards in the country. I always thought this was intended to suppress Muslim sentiment, but it turns out that he saw beards as a symbol of decadent Western influence. Hoxha was the first anti-Hipster Head of State.
 
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Boo said:
Not sure, but it might be a good idea to cultivate an interest in an Albanian side. You'd get to see them most weeks on Freeview and, besides, it always pays to have something else on the go for when the Sunderland-inspired gloom descends.
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