BBC Scotland's Hogmanay

BBC Scotland's Hogmanay
Also known asHogmanay Live (1991–2018)
Hogmanay (2019–present)
GenreNew Year's television special
Created byBBC Scotland
Presented byVarious (as of 2022; Edith Bowman and Amy Irons)
Country of originScotland
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locationsBBC Pacific Quay, Glasgow (since 2019)
Running time60 minutes
(often with a preview programme earlier in the evening)
Original release
NetworkBBC One Scotland (1991–present)
BBC Two Scotland (1999)
BBC Scotland (2019–present)
BBC Red Button
Release31 December 1991 (1991-12-31) –
present
Related
BBC New Year's Eve specials
Infobox instructions (only shown in preview)

Hogmanay (formerly Hogmanay Live) is a New Year's Eve television special broadcast by BBC One Scotland, covering Scotland's Hogmanay festivities for New Year's Eve.

The programme in all its iterations feature a mixture of Scottish contemporary and folk music, with some past programming also featuring live coverage of parts of the Princes Street concert in Edinburgh. The special features coverage of the firing of Edinburgh Castle's One O'Clock Gun at midnight and the subsequent fireworks and celebrations in Edinburgh.

Jackie Bird and Phil Cunningham often hosted together each year but from 2008 until 2019 she solely presented the programme. Cunningham does still appear on the programme, though not as a host.[1] Carol Kirkwood reported on the 2016 edition of the show live from Edinburgh Castle. The show currently is hosted live from The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. Until 2013, Bird was live from Edinburgh Castle or Princes Street, but the show's producers decided that it should take place in Glasgow permanently.

In 2019, Hogmanay Live was rebranded to Hogmanay and since then, the programme has been pre-recorded. The current presenters are Edith Bowman and Amy Irons.

  1. ^ "Archived copy". www.philcunningham.com. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)