BBC Scotland (Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters. Formerly based at Queen Margaret Drive in Glasgow, since April 2007 it has begun to move into its new Scottish headquarters and studios at Pacific Quay, on the south bank of the River Clyde, beside the new STV headquarters and the Glasgow Science Centre. BBC Scotland completed its move to Pacific Quay in August 2007. BBC Scotland also has offices including a newsroom, small television studio, and radio studios near to the Scottish Parliament, plus an office inside the Parliament building itself. There are also broadcasting centres in Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness and Dumfries. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra was resident at BBC Scotland's Queen Margaret Drive base until 2006, when it moved to new premises in the city centre. The orchestra performs regularly throughout Scotland and around the world.

BBC Scotland's main rival is STV (formerly Scottish Television and Grampian Television), which, despite the name, does not in fact broadcast throughout the country. STV's transmissions are confined to the main population centres of central and northern Scotland, while Border Television (ITV1 Border) covers the south.