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Sportscene is a Scottish sports television programme produced by BBC Scotland. Its main anchors are Dougie Donnelly and Dougie Vipond. Stuart Cosgrove, David Currie and Jonathan Sutherland present the Saturday Sportscene Results programme. more...
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Previous Sportscene presenters include Archie Macpherson who also commentated, Hazel Irvine, Jill Douglas and Rob Maclean, who now anchors Setanta's coverage of the SPL.
Despite losing the rights to the Scottish Premier League, Sportscene still covers much of Scottish football. It broadcasts highlights and selected live games of Scotland's international matches, including qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Football Championship, and has exclusive live rights to the Scottish League Cup, officially known as the CIS Cup. It also shares rights to the Scottish Cup with Sky Sports and shows a number of games from the UEFA Cup and qualifiers from the UEFA Champions League that involve Scottish clubs. More recently, Sportscene Live has covered Scotland's 2006 Kirin Cup win and the final of the UEFA Under 19 Championships 2006, also involving Scotland.
The programme's main commentary and reporting team consists of; Paul Mitchell, John Barnes, Scott Davie, Kheredine Idessane, Alasdair Lamont, Rhona McLeod, Chris McLaughlin, Alison Walker and Chick Young.
Sportscene is widely recognised in Scotland as the main national sports programme, bringing coverage of Celtic's run to the UEFA Cup Final in the 2002-03 season, Scotland's 2006 Six Nations triumph over England and the finale to the 2002-03 SPL season, where the title was decided on the very last day of the competition, into Scottish homes. Its main commercial competition is stv's Scotsport, which covers mainly highlights of the Scottish Premier League and live Champions League games involving Scottish clubs.
The Shows
There are a number of shows that come under the Sportscene brand.
Sportscene Results is broadcast on Saturday afternoons on BBC One Scotland and is presented by Stuart Cosgrove, David Currie and Jonathan Sutherland since 2005. The show rounds up all of the day's main football scores, whilst debating the major Scottish sports stories of the week. From 1989-2001, It was known as Afternoon Sportscene and previous presenters have included Bill McFarlen, Rob Maclean, Dougie Donnelly and Dougie Vipond.;
Sportscene Live is the name used for all live football matches broadcast by BBC Scotland. Coverage includes both Scottish cup competitions (the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup), Scotland Away Internationals and European matches involving Scottish clubs.;
Sportscene Rugby Special was the title of BBC Scotland's domestic rugby union programming when it held the rights to the Scottish leagues.;
Friday Sportscene was the name of the football preview programme that went out on BBC One Scotland on Friday nights. The programme's format was later moved to Saturday lunchtimes in place of Football Focus, but has been absent from the schedules since BBC Scotland lost the rights to the Scottish Premier League.;
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