30/05/2026
As a small independent promoter of acts & artist that play original music that would be out with the generic mainstream that fills the Bauer Media commercial radio stations, the only airplay we could get these artists was with our publicly funded national broadcaster on shows like the Iain Anderson show, and occasionally on the afternoon arts shows, but with the changes made by former Bauer Media Director of Content for Scotland and Northern Ireland Victoria Easton Riley to BBC Radio Scotland, making it a clone of the faceless bland generic playlists stations she managed, Scotland has lost a vital platform for the arts, especially as an outlet for new music from Scottish artists. It is a cultural disaster for the arts in Scotland.
They will tell you that they are still supporting new Scottish music, but the stats and the airplay show that is simply not the case.
Despite the calls from some of the biggest names in the Scottish music industry and from the Scottish public, our publicly funded state broadcaster isn't listening to those who fund it.
Since the Iain Anderson show was taken off BBC Radio Scotland, only one act we work with has been able to get any kind of airplay on the station, and they are from Northern Ireland.
Despite all the outcry, the media exposure of the false narratives and outright lies, nothing has changed with those in charge, as they bring in more management from the commercial sector. Shame on them.
Changes are part of sweeping shake-up by Victoria Easton Riley, BBC Scotland’s new head of audio and events
