This article deals with the Media in Glasgow. The city of 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...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 is home to large sections of the Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 national media. It hosts the following:

Television

• BBC Scotland
  BBC Scotland
  BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...
  
   — the national broadcaster, based in Pacific Quay Studios
  Pacific Quay Studios
  BBC Pacific Quay is BBC Scotland's television and radio studio complex at Pacific Quay, Glasgow, Scotland. Opened by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in August 2007, the studios are home to BBC Scotland's television, radio and online services and the headquarters of the BBC in Scotland.The...
  
   at Pacific Quay
  Pacific Quay
  Pacific Quay is an area south of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. It is located at the former Plantation Quay and Princes' Dock Basin. The Princes' Dock Basin was the largest on the River Clyde when it was opened in 1900. It ceased to be used in the 1970s as the volume of Shipping using the...
  
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• STV — (previously known as Scottish Television
  Scottish Television
  Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...
  
   in Central Scotland, and 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...
  
   in Northern Scotland). Scotland's largest independent ITV
  ITV
  ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
  
   companies, owned by the STV Group plc, based in Pacific Quay.

Some London-based programmes are soon to be moved to Scotland to share the British media market starting with The National Lottery Jet Set.

Television programmes set in Glasgow include: Taggart

Taggart

Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...

, Rebus

Rebus (TV series)

Rebus is the title of the detective drama based on the Inspector Rebus novels by the Scottish author Ian Rankin set in and around Edinburgh produced by STV Productions for the ITV Network....

(set in Edinburgh but shot mostly in Glasgow), High Times

High Times (TV series)

High Times is a Scottish comedy drama on STV, based around the lives of two flatmates and their neighbours in a high-rise tower block in Glasgow, in the last weeks before its closure for renovation...

, Rab C Nesbitt, City Lights

City Lights (TV series)

City Lights is a Scottish television sitcom made by BBC Scotland and set in Glasgow. It ran from 1985 to 1991 and was written by Bob Black...

, Chewing the Fat, River City

River City

River City is a Scottish television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow...

, and Still Game

Still Game

Still Game is a Scottish sitcom, produced by The Comedy Unit with the BBC. It was created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, who play the lead characters - two Glaswegian pensioners, named Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade respectively....

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Radio

• BBC Radio Scotland
  BBC Radio Scotland
  BBC Radio Scotland is BBC Scotland's national English-language radio network. It broadcasts a wide variety of programming, including news, sport, light entertainment, music, the arts, comedy, drama, history and lifestyle...
  
  
• Clyde 1
  102.5 Clyde 1
  102.5 Clyde 1 is a Scottish local radio station that serves Glasgow and West Central Scotland on FM, DAB and online. The station is owned & operated by Bauer Radio and forms part of Bauer's Place Network of stations.- History :...
  
  
• Clyde 2
  Clyde 2
  1152 Clyde 2 is a UK radio station that broadcasts to Glasgow and West Central Scotland. The station broadcasts contemporary easy listening music as well as specialist and sports programming, mainly football....
  
  
• Capital Scotland
• Real Radio Scotland
  Real Radio (Scotland)
  Real Radio Scotland is an Independent Local Radio station in Central and Southern Scotland, owned and operated by GMG Radio. The station broadcasts from studios at Ballieston in the east end of the Glasgow on 100.3 & 101.1FM and on DAB.- Background :...
  
  
• 105.2 Smooth Radio
  105.2 Smooth Radio
  105.2 Smooth Radio is a Scottish Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Glasgow and the surrounding area, owned & operated by GMG Radio and broadcasting from studios at Baillieston in the East End of Glasgow. The station replaced Saga 105.2 FM at 6am on Monday 26 March 2007 and competes...
  
  
• Sunny Govan Radio
• Radio Free Scotland
  Radio Free Scotland
  Between 1956-1965 Radio Free Scotland broadcast through the sound channel of BBC television after God Save the Queen finished in the evening, and, later on, on 262 metres medium wave on the radio....
  
  
• Celtic Music Radio
  Celtic Music Radio
  Celtic Music Radio is a Community Radio station, broadcasting on 1530 kHz AM to the Glasgow and Central Scotland area. It can also be accessed via a...
  
  
• AWAZ FM
• Insight Radio

Newspapers

A number of major Scottish newspapers are published in the city:

• The Daily Record
  Daily Record (Scotland)
  The Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow. It had been the best-selling daily paper in Scotland for many years with a paid circulation in August 2011 of 307,794 . It is now outsold by its arch-rival the Scottish Sun which in September 2010 had a circulation of 339,586 in...
  
  and Sunday Mail
  Sunday Mail (Scotland)
  The Sunday Mail is a Scottish tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. It is the sister paper of the Daily Record and is owned by Trinity Mirror and as such has a left-wing outlook which in turn tends to guide Scottish political debate in that direction.The Sunday Mail is read by over one million...
  
  — Scotland's best-selling tabloid, based at Central Quay
• The Herald
  The Herald (Glasgow)
  The Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, and available throughout Scotland. As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 47,226, giving it a lead over Scotland's other 'quality' national daily, The Scotsman, published in Edinburgh.The 1889 to 1906 editions...
  
  — Scotland's best-selling broadsheet
• The Sunday Herald
  Sunday Herald
  The Sunday Herald is a Scottish Sunday newspaper launched on 7 February 1999. The ABC audited circulation in April 2011 showed sales of 31,123.From the start it has combined a centre-left stance with support for Scottish devolution...
  
  — its five-year-old sister title
• The Evening Times
  Evening Times
  The Evening Times is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland.-History:The paper, an evening sister paper of The Herald, was established in 1876. The paper's slogan is "Nobody Knows Glasgow Better"....
  
  — an evening tabloid distributed in the west of Scotland

As well as Scottish editions of:

• The Sun
  The Sun (newspaper)
  The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...
  
  
• The Daily Mail
  Daily Mail
  The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
  
  and The Mail on Sunday
  The Mail on Sunday
  The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011...
  
  
• The Times
  The Times
  The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
  
  and Sunday Times
  The Sunday Times (UK)
  The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...
  
  

Local newspapers are:

• The Digger
  The Digger
  The Digger is a newspaper in Glasgow, Scotland. It is published weekly, in an A5 newsletter format.The paper was founded by James Cruickshank in 2004, and claims to have a circulation of up to 10,000...
  
  — Mainly covering the North of Glasgow
• The Glaswegian — Predominantly serving the North of Glasgow
• Local News for Southsiders — The Southside of Glasgow and the Govan area.
• The Glasgow East News — The East End of the City
• The West End Mail — Partick, West-End and the Northwest outskirts. -Ceased December 2006

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2006/12dec/061218wem.shtml

• The Springburn Herald — Weekly newspaper covering the area of North Glasgow and East Dunbartonshire
  East Dunbartonshire
  This article is about the East Dunbartonshire council area of Scotland. See also East Dunbartonshire .East Dunbartonshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders onto the north-west of the City of Glasgow. It contains many of the suburbs of Glasgow as well as containing many of...
  
  
• G41 — Monthly community newspaper serving Dumbreck
  Dumbreck
  Dumbreck is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde.The district is served by Dumbreck railway station. The only church in Dumbreck is St Leo the Great RC church....
  
  , Pollokshields
  Pollokshields
  Pollokshields is a district in the Southside of Glasgow, Scotland. It is a conservation area which was developed in Victorian times according to a plan promoted by the original landowners, the Stirling-Maxwells of Pollok, whose association with the area goes as far back as...
  
  , Strathbungo
  Strathbungo
  Strathbungo grew up as a small village built along the Pollokshaws Road, one of the main arteries leading southwards from the centre of Glasgow, adjoined by the Camphill Estate, now part of Queens Park...
  
  , Shawlands
  Shawlands
  Shawlands is a district of Glasgow, Scotland located less than 2 miles south of the River Clyde. The area has an approximate population of 8000 people, with over 82% dwelling in flats, 74% owner occupied and 79% living alone or with one other person...
  
   and Langside
  Langside
  Langside is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde, and lies east of Shawlands, south of Queens Park, west of Cathcart and north of Newlands. The district is residential and primarily middle-class, and has become an increasingly fashionable address in...
  
  . Published by a social enterprise
  Social enterprise
  A social enterprise is an organization that applies business strategies to achieving philanthropic goals. Social enterprises can be structured as a for-profit or non-profit....
  
   called Southside Media
  Southside Media
  Southside Media was a not-for-profit hyperlocal media publisher. It was a social enterprise based in the southside of Glasgow, Scotland.Its first community newspaper - G41 - was launched in December 2005. It was a monthly paper serving the communities of Pollokshields, Shawlands, Strathbungo,...
  
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Internet

• Scot24news
• Southside Happenings A local website documenting life on the southside of the city.
• g41.org.uk Citizen journalism website created by Southside Media
  Southside Media
  Southside Media was a not-for-profit hyperlocal media publisher. It was a social enterprise based in the southside of Glasgow, Scotland.Its first community newspaper - G41 - was launched in December 2005. It was a monthly paper serving the communities of Pollokshields, Shawlands, Strathbungo,...
  
  
• Transform Television Transform TV is Scotland's Community TV Channel on the web by Fablevision

Resources

Gurevitch M. Culture, Society and the Media. Routledge: New Ed edition, 1982