Television in Scotland

Television in Scotland mostly consists of UK-wide broadcasts, with regional variations at different times which are specific to Scotland. The BBC and ITV networks both began broadcasting in the country during the 1950s. There were further expansions in the early 1960s with the arrival of Grampian, Border and BBC2 television. ITV services operate as STV in the country, owned and operated by the STV Group based in Glasgow. Scottish Gaelic language broadcasts are aired on the BBC Alba channel. Distinct and separate channels relating to Scotland include BBC Scotland and That's TV Scotland, which is made up of five different broadcasting licences for Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow following the closure of the STV2 channel in 2018.

Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) represented the main source of demand, financing and commissioning for television programmes in Scotland. The output of PSBs primarily focus on drama, documentary, factual (specialist and entertainment) and current affairs programme productions. Television production in the country is benefited by having a number of regional PSBs around the country, including BBC Scotland and BBC Alba, whilst Channel 4 has a production hub located in the country. Scotland is the only country of the United Kingdom to have its own affiliat of the ITV network, STV. Television production in Scotland generated an estimate £184.7 million in Gross Value Added (GVA) in 2022, and spent an estimated £196.6 million in television broadcasting production in the country in 2019.

The experience of commercial expansion of television services in Scotland since has been broadly similar to that in the UK generally. Terrestrial television is available through DTT platform Freeview along with various other channels. Cable services are available to limited parts of the country with Virgin Media, satellite television is provided by Sky and IPTV services are available with BT TV and TalkTalk TV.