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BBC ALBA's Contributions to Gaelic Language Planning Efforts for Reversing Language Shift
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Milligan, Lindsay; Chalmers, Douglas; Danson, Mike; Lang, Alison – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
BBC ALBA is the first dedicated Gaelic-medium television channel in history. It launched in September 2008 and, in late 2010, announced that it would be carried on Freeview, in addition to Sky, Freesat, and BBC iPlayer, thereby widening access to Gaelic throughout Scotland. The channel is a BBC-licensed service that is presently operated as a…
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