Latest News from The Scotland Channel

Sunday, August 18th: The Sunday National newspaper has today published the first extensive article to appear in the press about The Scotland Channel.

In a piece written by National journalist Adam Robertson, the channel’s founder, Peter Jeal explains why The Scotland Channel was set up to change perceptions about Scotland from the UK narrative that Scotland is too weak to survive without the support of England's Barnett Formula block 'grants.'

The newspaper also covers the documentary about Scottish Independence entitled Is Scottish Independence Dead and Buried? which the channel will first air on September 12th.

This examines why Scotland voted against its own independence in 2014 and what Scotland's true constitutional position is within the UK.

Says the channel's founder, Peter Jeal, "this documentary will be the first ever broadcast which tells the whole story behind the flawed 2014 referendum and challenges the myth that Scotland is a willing partner in a "voluntary" union.

"This will make uncomfortable viewing for many committed unionists and will be a film that the British government will not want anyone to watch.

"It gives the whole picture, chapter and verse, which is why it will never be shown on mainstream media that perpetuates the London government's narrative that Scotland could not survive as an independent country."

Wednesday, August 14th: The Scotland Channel is to be featured in an article for The Sunday National newspaper on Sunday, August 18th, 2024.

In a piece written by National journalist Adam Robertson, the channel’s founder, Peter Jeal explains why The Scotland Channel was set up.

“I am delighted to have been approached by Sunday National to talk about the ethos behind the channel, the programmes we are running and in particular, the documentary about Scottish Independence entitled Is Scottish Independence Dead and Buried?

This documentary will be first ever to tell the whole story about why Scotland rejected its own independence, what Scotland’s constitutional position really is in the UK and where the independence movement is today.

“One thing is for certain. You will never see a programme like it on UK mainstream media because it will make uncomfortable viewing for any committed unionist as it challenges their entire belief structure,” comments Peter Jeal.

“It’s a film the Westminster government will not want anyone in Scotland to watch.”

The Scotland Channel is also being featured in Glasgow community newspaper,  The Splash in the next few weeks.

Saturday, August 3rd, 2024: The launch of The Scotland Channel went off without a hitch at a few seconds past midnight on August 1st and, within an hour, we had exceeded 380 views. In just over 48 hours, that had risen to 3,800 views and climbing.

The space analogy is quite apt, because we chose to make a documentary about Scotland's very successful space industry as our 'launch' programme.  Few people in Scotland even know we have a space industry because our mainstream media just don't cover it. Instead, they want to portray Scotland as weak and totally dependent on grants from the London government to survive.

We've had so many messages of congratulations and positive comments on the film that it would be impossible for us to reply to them all, so to everyone who has wished us well and liked our film Scotland in Space, thank you so much for your support, each and every one of you.

August 1st will hopefully go down in history as the first day when Scotland started its journey to break the UK media's stranglehold on Scotland and with your continued support, we can do this!

Please like, share and subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheScotlandChannel.

You can also help us by not skipping the ads when watching any of our content as we depend on these revenues to be able to make the films and make them free to view.

Be part of history. Let's change the narrative about Scotland by getting the truth about this wonderful country out to as many people as humanly possible. With your support, we can do this!

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024: Shock figures from the BBC reveal that just one in eight Scots watch the station each week whilst the number of licence fee payers continues to plummet in Scotland, falling by a further 44,000 in 2023/24 than the previous year. 

The news comes just a few days before Scotland gets its only independent Scottish-based TV channel, The Scotland Channel which launches on Thursday (August 1st, 2024).

The Scotland Channel will build into a digital on-demand station, free-to-view and free from the anti-Scottish bias shown by the UK-controlled mainstream media in Scotland.

“The continuing drop in the number of BBC viewers and licence fee payers in Scotland is a clear sign that Scots have had enough of the anti-Scottish output of broadcasters such as the BBC,” says Peter Jeal, Managing Director of Glasgow-based S24 TV Limited, owners of The Scotland Channel.

“It’s the reason why we are launching The Scotland Channel in just 2 days time on August 1st. We aim to tell Scotland’s story as it deserves to be told, free from the bias of UK mainstream media in Scotland.”

The Scotland Channel’s launch begins with a documentary about Scotland’s hugely successful space industry, another Scottish success story which has been virtually completely ignored by British media in Scotland.

Scotland in Space tells how Scotland’s space sector has gone from nowhere to leading Europe and and the world in the development of small satellites, the size of a Rubik’s cube, and the development of eco fuels, whilst at the same time, getting ready to launch the first rocket into space from Europe’s only vertical launch facility which is in Unst in the Shetland Islands.

Yet Scotland has achieved this with minimal support from the UK government and the sector has been faced with an almost total UK media blackout.

“Very few Scots even know we have a space sector at all, let alone one of the most successful space sectors in the world,” says Mr Jeal.

“The Scotland Channel aims to rectify this by becoming a popular alternative to the extreme anti-Scottish bias constantly being put out by the London-controlled media in Scotland.”

The dramatic nosedive in the number of BBC viewers in Scotland is a clear example that viewers have had enough of English broadcasters with “Scotland” in their title running Scotland down at every opportunity,” says Mr Jeal.

“News that the corporation has injected a further £5 million annually into their Scottish operations will do little to change their fortunes north of the border,” he added.

Despite the BBCs plummeting audience figures in Scotland, BBC ‘Scotland’, which is based at Glasgow's Pacific Quay, costs the taxpayer £40 million a year - up £5 million from the previous year, according to figures in their annual report.

With 44,000 fewer licence fee payers in Scotland than the previous year, this will result in an estimated loss of £7 million to BBC Scotland.

Whilst The Scotland Channel does not have budgets anywhere near the many £ millions the taxpayer-funded BBC does, we hope that we will be able to attract big audiences across Scotland who are genuinely looking for an alternative to the negative bias of English broadcasters in our country.

The Channel will build with a wide variety of programmes from Scottish wildlife, culture, people and music and aims to tell Scotland’s amazing and positive story whilst entertaining and informing our audiences.

It will be available to everyone free of charge. 

By liking, sharing and subscribing to our channel on YouTube, you can help to make history by making August 1st, 2024 the date when the Scottish TV landscape changes forever with the launch of its very own Scottish-based, Scottish-owned digital TV channel putting Scotland and its many successes centre-stage for the first time ever.

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New social media campaign launched

Monday, July 1st, 2024: The Scotland Channel has been gaining considerable interest not just in Scotland, but around the world and hundreds of people have already started liking and subscribing to our social media pages, newsletter and our YouTube channel in anticipation of Scotland's first truly domestic TV channel.

We are moving our social media campaign up a gear with our 'Love Scotland, Love The Scotland Channel' campaign on Monday, July 1st which features stunning images from all over Scotland. The campaign will now run through until the August 1st launch.

Peter Jeal of S24 TV Limited, the owners of The Scotland Channel said: "The Love Scotland, Love The Scotland Channel' campaign is designed to appeal to potential viewers not just in Scotland, but viewers worldwide, as building large audiences quickly will determine the channel's longer-term commercial sustainability and success.

"This is a departure from previous attempts to fill the void left by mainstream media in Scotland because we do not intend to rely on contributions from pro-independence funding bodies or regular fundraisers from individuals to keep the channel running. Our aim is to build our audiences quickly and increase the advertising revenues we are able to draw down through being part of YouTube's monetisation programme.

"That way we can build a sustainable channel long term and, should we be able to make more money than it costs to make the programmes we show, we will then be in a position to reinvest into the channel and build a team that will allow us to increase our programme capacity substantially, he said.

"Once The Scotland Channel launches, we never again want to see Scotland at the mercy of a media from another country dictating the message and narrative about Scotland in order to preserve a political union that is not working in Scotland's best interests."