BBC Scotland bosses say their new channel’s evening news programme The Nine will present news from around the world from a Scottish perspective – something Radio Scotland has been doing successfully for decades.

The Nine – an hour-long news programme – will run from 9pm on weekdays on the new BBC Scotland channel which will start broadcasting from Pacific Quay, in Glasgow, on February 24.

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Gary Smith, head of news and current affairs at BBC Scotland, was speaking as the team behind the programme revealed its new open-plan set along with their hopes for it.

He said they wanted to give Scottish viewers more programmes in which they see “Scotland reflected back to them”.

Scottish content is broadcast as opt-outs on BBC One or BBC Two, but from February BBC Scotland would become their home, although some would still appear on BBC One.

“Our news programme has the same ambition as the channel as a whole,” said Smith.

“We want to reflect back to people across Scotland their own lives, their own country. We’re planning to report and analyse the news from all over the country not just from here in Glasgow, but from a Scottish perspective.

“That’s what we’ve been doing in our news programmes on Radio Scotland for many years and from next year we’ll also be doing a version of that on our news website.

“In Scotland we’ll have the power to edit the front page of the news website here in this newsroom, which means for the first time once the nine o’clock news is launched we’ll be reporting the news from all round the world on all our platforms, which is a big first for us here.”

Hayley Valentine, The Nine’s editor, stressed the global view – though “through Scotland’s eye” – with the needs of a Scottish audience at the heart of “everything we do”.

“That doesn’t mean all the stories will have a Scottish element to them – big international stories resonate with Scottish audiences, so do UK-wide stories, they don’t have to have some Scottish version for us to do the stories,” she said.

“You’ll get everything you need in this programme.

“We’re really focusing on original journalism, original stories and we hope to get a reputation for breaking news and breaking stories and doing original pieces that you won’t see elsewhere.”

The Nine will be broadcast from an open-plan set on the third floor of the BBC’s Glasgow HQ, with presenters Rebecca Curran and Martin Geissler as likely to be standing up as sitting on the somewhat uncomfortable sofa to deliver their lines in an “informal” style.

Curran’s appointment is her first posting outside of her native Aberdeen, and is keen to get started: “The thing that really drew me to this was the focus that we’ll have on original journalism.

“I’m really passionate about that and the talent in the team and using the rest of the talent around the country hopefully we’ll be able to reflect that on screen.

“I’ve been here four weeks now – can’t wait to get started.”

Geissler, a journalist for 27 years, latterly with ITN, admits they have their work cut out, starting from a ratings base of zero.

He said: “It’s good motivation – you’ve got to earn an audience. You don’t deserve anything.

“You deserve the audience that’s drawn to you and you’ve got to go out there and earn it and in that respect you’ve got to earn it by delivering something that’s different.”

Valentine hopes BBC Scotland’s informal approach will help it build an audience: “We aim to be a little bit more informal – we’ll have all the authority that I talked about through the people we’ve hired – but we aim to be conversational and informal and inclusive, making people feel this is something they feel is talking to them.

“Wherever you are in the country we hope to reflect you back at yourself.”