Telefios was a Scottish Gaelic-language news programme, broadcast on both Grampian Television

Grampian Television

Grampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife...

 and STV

Scottish Television

Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...

 from 1993 to 2000.

Its name is a portmanteau of the word fios meaning "knowledge" or "information", and telebhisean ("television

Television

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").

Although not strictly a local news bulletin, the programme concentrated mainly on Western Isles news, and specifically Gaelic interest news stories from elsewhere.

Five-minute bulletins were shown on weekday lunchtimes (and later, in the early evening) while a supplementary half-hour review programme, Telefios na Seachduinn, was broadcast on Saturday lunchtime.

Other Scottish Gaelic news programmes

It is sometimes wrongly stated that Telefios was actually the first Scottish Gaelic news programme. In actual fact, Criomagan (meaning "little bits") was broadcast during the late 1980s and early 1990s by Grampian Television.

Following the axing of Telefios in 2000, no Scots Gaelic television news programmes were broadcast until September 2008 when the Gaelic digital channel, BBC Alba, launched a nightly half-hour programme entitled An Là

An Là

An Là is a Scottish Gaelic-language news programme broadcast on the Scottish Gaelic language channel, BBC Alba. The programme, based at BBC Alba's newsroom in Inverness, began at 8pm on Monday 22 September 2008 and provides a 30-minute bulletin of Scottish, British and international news for...

and a weekly hour-long review programme entitled Seachd Là.