Telefios

Telefios

Telefios was a Scottish Gaelic-language news programme, broadcast on both Grampian Television and STV from 1993 to 2001. Its name is a "portmanteau" of the word "fios" meaning "knowledge" or "information", and "telebhisean" ("television").

Although not strictly a local news programme, the programme concentrated mainly on Western Isles news, and specifically Gaelic interest news stories from elsewhere.

Five-minute bulletins were shown on weekdays whilst a supplementary half-hour review programme, "Telefios na Seachduinn", was broadcast on Saturday lunchtime.

Other Scottish Gaelic news programmes

It is sometimes wrongly stated that "Telefios" was actually the first Scottish Gaelic news programme. In actual fact, "Criomagan" (meaning "little bits") was broadcast during the early 1990s.

Following the axing of "Telefios" in 2001, no Scots Gaelic television news programmes were broadcast until September 2008 when the Gaelic digital channel, BBC Alba, launched a nightly half-hour programme entitled "An Là" and a weekly hour-long review programme entitled "Seachd Là".


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