BBC Alba

Background
BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic language channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba, which was launched on Friday 19 September 2008 after a BBC Trust consultation into a partnership with MG Alba in 2007 determined that a Gaelic language channel would be suitable to launch. As a Gaelic language channel, it is notable for having most of it's content produced locally within Scotland, as well as being the only BBC channel ran as a partnership. The channel runs daily for up to seven hours a day, and despite having most content available in Gaelic language only, it is available to watch across all of the United Kingdom on satellite and cable platforms.

Logo (19 September 2008 - 19 September 2018)
Logo: Across various scenes, we can see objects and people slowly floating, as if under zero gravity, pointing towards a lone star in the sky. The star is revealed to be the stylised star within the MG Alba logo, which quickly expands and shrinks back down, and the new BBC Alba logo, with the 1997 BBC logo on top and the ALBA text underneath, appears in the center of the screen.

Variants: TBA

Technique: The idents feature a variety of live action scenes around Scotland, with computer generated imagery used to manipulate objects into moving and floating.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Logo (19 September 2018 - 20 October 2021)
Logo: We see various scenes from around Scotland depending on the variant, before two colored stars (stylised in the same way as in the MG Alba corporate logo) fade in and slowly rotate on screen. One of the stars fades away, while the other one stops on the right side of the screen as the BBC Alba logo fades in letter by letter, followed by a smaller star fading in to the top right of the BBC logo.

Variants: TBA

Technique: All live action shots from around Scotland, followed by simple animation for the stars appearing on screen and the BBC Alba logo fading in.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Logo (19 September 2018 - 20 October 2021)
Logo: Same as above, except now the stars animating in have been removed. Instead, the new 2021 BBC logo animates in on the top of the screen, and ALBA (now in Reith) appears at the bottom with the iconic star placed to the right of it.

Variants: Same as above.

Technique: Same as above, except the animation now consists of the BBC logo appearing instead.

Music/Sounds: Same as above.

Availability: Current, can be seen on the BBC Alba channel when it is on air.