BBC Alba: New Gaelic channel 'set up to fail'

(Sept 21, 2008)
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2450040.0.new_gaelic_channel_set_up_to_fail.php
...“Speaking only minutes before the channel went live for the first time, with an eye-catching schedule including a drama about Elvis living on Lewis and a documentary about a Glasgow mass murderer, Morrison challenged the BBC to show it was with us for the long haul.
“The former Labour MP's ire was provoked by the fact that the new channel will not be broadcast on Freeview, only on Freesat or Sky, stopping roughly two-thirds of all Scots from watching the new programmes. The date for the channel's apperance on Virgin Media's cable services is yet to be announced.”