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STV2? I didn’t realise there was an STV2 until a few weeks ago. Perhaps if they had advertised its existence better it may have had larger viewing numbers.

City Loon STV2 ran at a loss even with advertising so it makes SNP sense to plough taxpayers’ money into a new Scottish BBC channel? Sounds about right ... well done Sturgeon for safeguarding our money into a guaranteed profitmaking scheme.

Proud 2Be Scots Bring back Grampian. Scotland is more than the Central Belt. How can the BBC justify opening a new channel as obviously it is not required in the real world? On the subject of closing channels, when will BBC alba close?

Iana 58 No point in ALBA now they have lost the Pro-14 rugby live coverage.

Auldcynic Nope never seen it, doesn’t even seem to be broadcast throughout Scotland on Freeview. Hard to miss what you never had.

The Balvenie That’s the thing about “public” monopolies like the BBC. STV can’t make a go of a second channel, but the BBC can just milk the “TV Tax” for vast funds regardless of how many people watch it and how totally pish it will be. Common Sense

i “A pupil at James Gillespie’s High School”, quoted, in ENGLISH. Well done son. That proves we do not need the additional expense of Gaelic taught in our struggling schools as you are already perfectly able to communicate within society using the most commonly used language of this country.

Auld Cynic Once Scotland is an isolated country from the rest of the globe perhaps we will all be forced to communicate in Gaelic – once Holyrood have

Bertyfish Middle class parents, with a huge sense of entitlement, by the sound of it.

Allnats I see Edinburgh Council are currently advertising for a “Curriculum Leader Gaelic Education” on 43k a year, and this is in addition to having a ‘Gaelıc Development Offıcer’. What a fantastic use of taxpayers’ money at a time of “Crushing Tory Austerity”.

Common Sensei Maybe potential teachers can We should be getting rid of Holyrood, only then will we start seeing unity again in Scotland. The undemocratic SNP are easily the worst thing to ever happen to Scotland.

Mike Lowery Most Scots disagree, that’s why the SNP are the largest Put all the others under state control too and stop the gravy train.