Good Morning Scotland is a Scottish breakfast radio news

News

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 programme. It is broadcast on 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...

 weekdays from 06:00 to 08:45. Established in 1973, it is the longest-running radio show broadcast from Scotland and remains one of the most popular.

Based in many respects on BBC Radio 4's Today programme

Today programme

Today is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, now broadcast from 6.00 am to 9.00 am Monday to Friday, and 7.00 am to 9.00 am on Saturdays. It is also the most popular programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks...

, it consists of regular news, sport, business, travel and weather bulletins along with interviews, in-depth reports and a daily religious slot Thought for the Day.

History

The programme was launched on the morning of 31 December 1973 with presenters David Findlay and John Milne.

In 1980, to celebrate 50 years of broadcasting from the BBC's Edinburgh studios at Queen Street, Good Morning Scotland was simulcast on BBC1 Scotland, pioneering breakfast television on the BBC (ITV

ITV

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 station Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

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 had broadcast a breakfast programme for six weeks during 1978 and thus laid claim to the first semi-regular British breakfast television broadcast).

Local variations

The first half of the programme is also broadcast on BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland

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's Gaelic language station, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is a British radio station, broadcasting in Scottish Gaelic. It is operated by the BBC as part of its portfolio of television and radio services broadcasting to Scotland....

 before its Gaelic counterpart Aithris Na Maidne begins at 07:30.

Listeners in Orkney opt-out between 07:30 and 08:00 for Around Orkney, a 30 minute magazine programme with features, local news and weather, diary, jobspot, mart report and postbag.

There are also local news opt-outs from Selkirk for the Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

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, Dumfries for the South West

Dumfries and Galloway

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, Aberdeen for the North East

Grampian

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 and Inverness for the Highlands

Scottish Highlands

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Past presenters

• John Milne
• Douglas Kynoch
• Mary Marquis
  Mary Marquis
  Mary Elizabeth Marquis MBE is a Scottish former television news presenter.She was a leading interviewer on BBC Scotland from the mid 1960s, and became the face of the network's evening news programme Reporting Scotland until 1988, notably including the whole of the 1970s Nationwide era when input...
  
  
• James Cox
• Neville Garden
• Eddie Mair
  Eddie Mair
  Eddie Mair is a British BBC radio and television presenter. He presents BBC Radio 4's daily news magazine PM also the Radio 4 Saturday only iPM and the BBC's NewsPod, is an occasional presenter of Newsnight, the stand-in presenter for Any Questions replacing the late Nick Clarke, and was the...
  
  
• Louise White
• Anne MacKenzie (1995–1997)
• Derek Bateman (1996–2006)
• Mhairi Stuart (1999–2006)
• Abeer MacIntyre
  Abeer MacIntyre
  Abeer Macintyre is journalist and broadcaster, formerly a regular presenter and journalist at BBC Scotland from 1994 to 2009, presenting the station's flagship radio programme Good Morning Scotland and as a presenter of the station's news and political TV broadcasts...
  
  
• Gillian Marles (2005–2009)
• Aasmah Mir
  Aasmah Mir
  -Early life:Mir was born to first-generation Pakistani immigrants and brought up in the middle class suburb of Bearsden, near Glasgow. She graduated from the University of Bristol with an honours law degree in 1993...
  
   (2009)

Morning Extra

Morning Extra was an associated phone-in programme broadcast from 09.05 - 10.00. Presented by Graham Stewart

Graham Stewart

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, it usually debated one of the biggest stories running on Good Morning Scotland. It was previously only 40 minutes long but was extended in 2008 to an hour.

The programme was axed in 2010 and replaced with a phone-in, Call Kaye, presented by Kaye Adams

Kaye Adams (presenter)

Kaye Adams is a Scottish television presenter, best known for presenting Loose Women from 1999 to 2006.-Early life:...

. The last programme of Morning Extra aired on 26 February.