An Là is a Scottish Gaelic-language news programme broadcast on the Scottish Gaelic language channel, BBC Alba. The programme, based at BBC Alba's newsroom in Inverness

Inverness

Inverness is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland...

, began at 8pm on Monday 22 September 2008 and provides a 30-minute bulletin of Scottish, British and international news for Gaelic speakers on weeknights. The Sunday night review programme, composed of highlights from the week's bulletins as well as material from Eòrpa

Eòrpa

is long-running current affairs programme broadcast on BBC Two Scotland and BBC Alba. The series has been running since 1993, and has covered political and social issues affecting Europe and Europeans over that time including issues affecting the Western Isles. It is broadcast weekly in Scottish...

, called Seachd Là

Seachd Là

Seachd Là is a weekly Scottish Gaelic-language news magazine produced by BBC Alba, featuring a round up of the week's news. Its stories are from BBC Alba's news programmes An Là and Eòrpa. It is shown on Sundays from the Glasgow newsroom and is presented by An Là weather presenter, Kirsteen...

, began at 6.30pm on Sunday 28 September 2008.

An Là is presented from Studio G at the BBC in Inverness, but outputted through Studio C Gallery in BBC Pacific Quay. Seachd Là, weather and the An Là sports news all come from BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

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An Là is the first daily television news programme to be broadcast in Scots Gaelic since the axing of Grampian Television

Grampian Television

Grampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife...

's Telefios

Telefios

Telefios was a Scottish Gaelic-language news programme, broadcast on both Grampian Television and STV from 1993 to 2000.Its name is a portmanteau of the word fios meaning "knowledge" or "information", and telebhisean ....

bulletins in 2000.

An Là was shortlisted in the Best Current Affairs category at the 2009 Celtic Media Festival

Celtic Media Festival

The Celtic Media Festival, previously known as the Celtic Film and Television Festival, aims to promote the languages and cultures of the Celtic nations on screen and in broadcasting. The festival is an annual three-day celebration of broadcasting and film from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall...

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Main anchors

• Angela MacLean
• Iain MacLean

• Innes Munro

Weather presenters

• Kirsteen MacDonald
  Kirsteen MacDonald
  Kirsteen MacDonald is a Scottish broadcaster for BBC Alba. She has worked on the children's magazine show Dè a-nis? and been a Glasgow-based reporter for BBC Radio nan Gàidheal....
  
  

• Sarah Cruickshank
  Sarah Cruickshank
  Sarah Cruickshank is a Scottish Gaelic broadcaster from the Isle of Skye who works for BBC Scotland. She is a travel reporter and regularly does the outdoor weather conditions in the evening on BBC Radio Scotland and weather presenter on BBC Alba Gaelic news programme An Là.She was a regular...
  
  

Reporters

Stornoway

• Angus Macdonald
• Catriona MacLean
• Donald MacSween

Argyll

• Doneil MacLeod

Skye

• Iain MacDiarmaid

Uist

• Eilidh MacAskill

Inverness

• Calum MacDonald
• Eilidh MacLeod

• Donald Morrison
• Mairi Rodgers

Glasgow

• Daibhidh Eyre

• Morna MacLeod

Scottish Parliament

• Michael MacNeil (politics)

• Niall O'Gallagher
  Niall O'Gallagher
  Niall O'Gallagher , along with Michael MacNeill, is the political correspondent for the BBC's An Là News programme. Before the launch of An Là, O'Gallagher worked on Radio nan Gaidheal's Aithris na Maidne and Aithris an Fheasgair, also on politics...
  
  (politics)

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