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Former Eurythmics singer Dave Stewart is to launch TV channels aimed at the Scottish audience around the world, according to the Sunday Times today.
In partnership with actor James Cosmo, Stewart will launch two TV channels and a radio station featuring "a mixture of Scottish favourites such as Taggart, Monarch of the Glen and High Road, together with dedicated chat shows and interviews."
The stations, which will come from the Highland film studio they are building near Inverness, will be aimed at the 28m "Scottish diaspora," of which 12m reside in the US and 4m in Canada.
"There are Scots wherever you go around the world, and you find that second or third generation descendants are more rabidly Scots than the Scots themselves," said Roy Davis, business partner of the pair. "But there has been a dearth of contact with Scotland. The cable channels will tap into the market of those wanting to remember their ancestry."
In partnership with actor James Cosmo, Stewart will launch two TV channels and a radio station featuring "a mixture of Scottish favourites such as Taggart, Monarch of the Glen and High Road, together with dedicated chat shows and interviews."
The stations, which will come from the Highland film studio they are building near Inverness, will be aimed at the 28m "Scottish diaspora," of which 12m reside in the US and 4m in Canada.
"There are Scots wherever you go around the world, and you find that second or third generation descendants are more rabidly Scots than the Scots themselves," said Roy Davis, business partner of the pair. "But there has been a dearth of contact with Scotland. The cable channels will tap into the market of those wanting to remember their ancestry."
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