More BBC programmes should be made in Scotland, and some news coverage is still too often "marginal and covered in insufficient depth", a key BBC report has found.
Published on the same day as the corporation's annual report, the Audience Council released its own separate analysis of its broadcasting in Scotland.
It adds in the report that "options for improving BBC news services in Scotland be reviewed".
It says: "We concluded that there had been improvements in accuracy, but that the constraints of covering the affairs of four nations on the network meant that Scottish perspectives, and those of other devolved nations, remained marginal and covered in insufficient depth."
Last year BBC Scotland made more than 300 hours of news and weather reports, 189 hours of current affairs and 150 hours of sport. Repeats totalled 196 hours.
However, although the council welcomed the BBC's aspiration to make 9% of its network TV output from Scotland by 2016, the report said its current time scale for doing so has to be sped up.
It also called for Scotland's home football fixtures for qualifying for the World and European Cups to be added to the list of "crown jewels" guaranteed free to view to the public.
The report says: "We note that no specific target had been set for Scotland and members believe that around 9% of network deliveries should be achieved, ahead of the target of 2016 set by the BBC Trust."
Last night Blair Jenkins, who chaired the Scottish Broadcasting Commission, said the report showed there was still a need for competition to the BBC news services in Scotland, one he believes could be filled by a Scottish digital channel.
He said: "The BBC is still a fine broadcaster but what it needs in Scotland is competition.
"Competition leads to you doing your job more and doing your job better. There is a need for more Scottish-made programmes, and I think that the BBC does make some good programmes, but there needs to be more. I still think the answer, as the commission found, is a Scottish digital network."
The report says that the council - which advises the ruling BBC Trust body - monitored the output of the BBC network in autumn last year, and decided that, in general, news over the entire BBC network had achieved greater accuracy in its reporting of Scottish issues.
However it says there was "room for further progress in accuracy and richness of coverage".
"News coverage from the devolved nations was often brief and could appear tokenistic," the report said. "The problem of repetition in the Six O'clock News and Reporting Scotland remained."
Jeremy Peat, the BBC's trustee for Scotland, said that the last 12 months had been a "strong year for the BBC in Scotland", including the launch of a new Gaelic channel, BBC Alba, and successful programmes such as Scotland's History.
The main BBC report for Scotland finds that BBC Scotland television reaches 45% of the Scottish population in an average week.
Reporting Scotland remains the most popular television news bulletin in Scotland with an average daily audience of 465,000 viewers across 2008. Radio Scotland peaked with an average of one million listeners last year.
The council welcomed the launch of BBC Alba in September 2008, commenting that it "has transformed the broadcasting landscape in Scotland it is clearly a highly-valuable resource for the Gaelic community and for learners of the language. As a public service channel based in Scotland, with programmes commissioned and produced from a Scottish perspective, it plays a unique role in the Scottish broadcasting market."
However the report contained other criticisms. News coverage of the current economic crisis did benefit from a boosted business news team, but "we noted that coverage of Scottish angles on network outlets was marginal, in spite of the story for the Scottish economy, so that overall BBC coverage lacked some cohesion for audiences in Scotland."
Both reports come in a week when the BBC's large staffing levels at T in the Park and the Open Championship have been in question.
Ken MacQuarrie, director of BBC Scotland, said the year had been full of significant achievements. He said: "We're also on target to increase the BBC's spend on network output in Scotland to more than 5% by the end of this year, boosting both the creative sector and helping sustain employment.
"In the coming year we will offer a range of ambitious, exciting programming and continue to meet the needs of our audiences."
BBC Scotland's official review listed a series of successes for the corporation based at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, including the popularity of its website, which generates around 600,000 users from outside the UK. In total, the BBC Scotland website was accessed by an average of 2.9 million users a week.
Nearly a fifth of all the BBC's children's programmes are made in Scotland, and Wallander, the adaptation of Henning Mankell's crime stories, captured more than 6.2 million viewers.
Both BBC One in Scotland and BBC Radio Scotland reached or improved on the official commitment to various hours of news and arts programming, according to the main BBC report published in London yesterday.
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