🎉Celebrating 100 years of @BBCScotLearn!
We hosted a stand at @ScotParl this week to mark this milestone and showcase our fantastic range of initiatives including @bbcbitesize, Authors Live, @BBCYoungReport & The Lab.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hello 👋
This is totally inaccurate, there is no ‘6th episode’. Wild Isles is – and always was - a 5 part series. We acquired a separate film for iPlayer from the RSPB, WWF and Silverback Films about people working to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the British Isles. @guardian
📻 An echo of the BBC’s first broadcast in Scotland
Tim Davie, Director General, in Glasgow this afternoon at a special event organised by radio amateurs for today’s centenary becomes the first DG since BBC founder John Reith to send out the “5SC calling” message
To celebrate 100 years of the BBC in Scotland, radio enthusiasts from around the world have been exchanging messages with the BBC Amateur Radio Group, which includes our Engineering Manager Andy Britton
Fellow operators have been chatting via the special event callsign - GB5SC
🎂 On March 6th 1923 Station 5SC began broadcasting from an attic in Bath Street in Glasgow as part of the BBC
Today we celebrate the centenary of the BBC in Scotland and some famous faces have popped by to wish us Happy Birthday 🎉
We welcomed stakeholders and invited guests of @bbcstudios to a preview of the #DoctorWho Worlds of Wonder Exhibition in Edinburgh at @NtlMuseumsScot this evening, ahead of the official opening on Friday
The @BBC_Studioworks team at the new studios at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow welcomed @alisonthewliss and @kaukabstewart today, to see the production facilities now based in their constituencies. We discussed TV production capacity and the growing demand for TV craft skills in Scotland
📻 "2LO, Marconi House, London calling"
Today marks 100 years since the first ever BBC radio broadcast. Listen to Arthur Burrows recreating the very first announcement and find out all about the early days of radio #BBC100
Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/OFxXviq7zt
Great start to the week with a really informative visit to the #BBC at Media City in #Salford to discuss 2 of my favourite things #Education & #Sport Excellent to hear about @bbcbitesize & @bbcnewsround plus the importance of access to live free to air sport🏑🎾⚽️🏉@BBCSport
🎉 Happy Centenary! We're 100 years young today 🎂
We're celebrating #BBC100 on TV, @BBCiPlayer, Radio and @BBCSounds! And to help you find all the centenary content, we've put together your ultimate guide to programming across the @BBC 📺🎧
Full info ➡️ https://t.co/detMPg2udd
And that’s a wrap. Thank you to all who visited our exhibition stand or had a chat to us at #lab22, #cpc22 and #snp22 over the past few weeks. Great to chat to MPs, MSPs, Ministers, members and many others about the BBC and public service broadcasting.