BBC Scotland's new director, Hayley Valentine, expressed her desire to show Scotland's national men's football team matches on terrestrial TV, acknowledging the importance of sport to Scottish audiences and ongoing discussions with rights holders. While ViaPlay currently holds the broadcast rights until 2028, Valentine emphasized the financial challenges of acquiring such rights and the need for value for money in programming decisions.
BBC Scotland would love to make the national men's football team matches free-to-air, its new director has said. Hayley Valentine said she would "love" for the games to be shown on terrestrial TV and that "there are live discussions going on". But she warned that "these things are not cheap".
Valentine was responding to a question from West Dunbartonshire MP Douglas McAllister during a Scottish Affairs Committee session in the House of Commons. "These things are not cheap and we have to think about value for money in all of our decision-making. In order to pay pay for one thing... there's not extra money, what are we not doing in order to fund something else?
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