Gus Macdonald became the station's Director of Programmes during the summer of 1986. One of his first decisions was to revamp the station's regional news and features output, following criticism from an Independent Broadcasting Authority committee. Scottish's flagship evening programme "Scotland Today" had previously been revamped from a regional news programme into a topical magazine show supplemented by short bulletins. David Scott was brought in from BBC Scotland as the station's head of news and reverted "Scotland Today" back to a hard news format while long-running series including "What's Your Problem?" and "Ways & Means" were axed. Replacement programmes included the topical lunchtime show "Live at One Thirty" and social action series "Scottish Action".