Scots wha hae

And the wise men and women of the BBC Trust spake thus just in time for Xmas.

BBC ALBA should be carried on Freeview. The Trust has approved the BBC Executive's proposal to remove the BBC's thirteen radio stations from Freeview, in Scotland only, during the hours BBC ALBA is broadcasting, as the most technically and financially viable way of enabling BBC ALBA to be carried on Freeview.

The Trust ruled out, for example, putting Alba where BBC Parliament is, north of the border, on the grounds of "public value". So apparently it makes more sense to knock off 13 radio stations for one Gaelic tv channel. The logical conclusion is to do the same for S4C in Wales and save money on transmission costs.  The BBC Executive are as much to blame as the Trust. Next from the SNP, a channel for the mither tongue...