Licences/North West Scotland

The following states the licence information for the North Western Scotland Network Six service.

Licence information
Region: Transmission region: Licence type: Regional Stipulations: Regional broadcast quota; regional identity
 * Scotland Highlands & Western Isles
 * Eitshal
 * Keelylang Hill
 * Rumster Forest
 * Bressay
 * Rosemarkie (part)

Licencee information
Contracted to: Caledonia Media plc

Contract expires: 28 February 2013

Regional quotas: 7 hours non-news per week minimum

Parent company: Forest Media (85%) Emoa Group (15%)

Contractual obligations: Provide local teletext services on digital platforms. Provide all networked news, sport and live programming Provide an agreed amount of Gaelic regional programming

Licence return notification 28 days

Broadcasting as: GTV

Licence signed: June 2006

This contract fulfils a contractual agreement between the Licencee ("Contracted to", "they") and the Network ("us", "we"). The Licencee must provide a Channel 6 local television service to its particular region in accordance with the terms written in this contract. They must abide by the Network rules and regulations, and we will oversee these commitments over the 12 month contract. The licensee is able to extend its contract by a further 12 months by making a bid in the annual franchise rounds.

Area served
Primary target counties
 * Highlands
 * Western Isles
 * Shetland Isles

Secondary target counties
 * Grampian (Western fringe)