The Broadcasting Act 1996 resulted in improved funding, and also renamed the funding body 'Gaelic Broadcasting Committee' (). In 1999 , the first Gaelic language TV channel was launched, which broadcast daily for one hour (between 6pm and 7pm) on Digital Freeview. was established in October 1999 as the first dedicated Gaelic TV channel in Scotland and provided a limited Gaelic service on Freeview until May 2011. Broadcasts were limited to an hour slot between the hours of 6pm and 7pm. The channel stopped broadcasting in May 2011 and was displaced by BBC ALBA.