THE banks of the River Clyde will form the hub for a 16-day pop-up festival during the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
A site adjacent to BBC Scotland's headquarters at Pacific Quay will host cultural events featuring live music, radio broad-casts and television favourites such as The One Show, The Ken Bruce Show, A Question Of Sport and Who Do You Think You Are?
Highlights of BBC@TheQuay, which runs from July 19 until August 3, include a collaboration with Celtic Connections, live Bollywood extravaganza and celebration of food and drink from around the Commonwealth.
There will be three performance spaces at its heart including one aboard the historic PS Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddle steamer. The site will be open to the public from 9am until 1am daily during the Games.
Big names including Gary Lineker and Clare Balding have been announced to lead the BBC's sport coverage of Glasgow 2014, with plans said to "match London 2012 in its ambition".
The presenters will broadcast live from Celtic Park and Hamp-den for the opening and closing ceremonies and provide comm-entary throughout the 11 days of competition. Gabby Logan, Hazel Irvine and John Inverdale will present the BBC's multi-channel coverage with Fred MacAulay and Dougie Vipond also among the line-up to be based at Pacific Quay.
A special studio similar to that used in Olympic Park during London 2012 is to be erected at neighbouring Mavisbank Quay against a backdrop of the Clyde Auditorium, SSE Hydro and Finnieston Crane.
Coverage will start each day during BBC Breakfast, which will temporarily relocate from its Salford base, and run through to a late-night highlights programme.
BBC Three's schedule will be devoted to live action and Radio 5 Live will broadcast from Glasgow every day of the Games. BBC Radio Scotland has pledged to cover every Scottish medal.
Planned documentaries include Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made The Commonwealth and Commonwealth City, charting the regeneration of Glasgow's east end. Another hour-long show, presented by Lulu, will explore a "musical map" of Glasgow, while Andrew Marr is set to front a three-part series on Scottish writers James Boswell, Sir Walter Scott and Hugh MacDiarmid.
Bruce Malcolm, BBC's head of Commonwealth Games, said: "As you'd expect, BBC Sport will provide the kind of coverage they did so brilliantly during the Olympics but we also want to join in the year-long celebrations both here in Glasgow and throughout Scotland by bringing our audiences a string of live events, concerts and Commonwealth-themed programmes."
There will be 15 live streams available online at the BBC Sport website during Glasgow 2014, but Mr Malcolm said there were currently no plans to dedicate any of those solely to Scots in action. He said: "We did a lot of audience research within Scotland and what we heard clearly was that they didn't want specific Scottish-only content. What they wanted was a mix of the best talent, athletes and performances."
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