The governing body of the BBC has said that any new television channel for Scotland should not be paid for by the current licence fee.
In its official response to the final report of the Scottish Broadcasting Commission, which was delivered in September, the trust says that any funding for a suggested Scottish Network - the main recommendation of the SBC's report - could not come "even indirectly" from licence fee payers or it would "compromise its direct relationship to licence payers and would not serve the interests of BBC audiences in Scotland".
The proposed Scottish Network would be a digital channel and has been costed at about £75m.
The BBC Trust report, published yesterday, says: "The ACS (Audience Council for Scotland) considers that any proposal to enhance public sector broadcasting in Scotland is in the interests of BBC audiences but warns that if funding for the channel was to come, even indirectly, from the licence fee payers, this would damage the BBC, compromise its direct relationship to Licence Fee payers and would not serve the interests of BBC audiences in Scotland."
It adds: "As the proposals are taken forward we would emphasise the need to consider carefully the economic implications of a new intervention of the scale envisaged in the commission's report."
Another of the SBC's proposals was to move the management of one of the BBC's main channels to Scotland.
This has been ruled out by the BBC. The trust report says: "The BBC management has considered the effect of a move of one of the BBC's main TV channels from London, but concluded that this is not appropriate at present."
The report also details the manner in which the corporation is increasing its production north of the border.
Some of the BBC's best known programmes, including Newsnight Review, The Weakest Link, starring Anne Robinson, and Question Time, are to be made in Scotland. Around nine percent of BBC productions will be made at the new BBC Scottish headquarters at Pacific Quay in Glasgow.
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