Timeline of television in Scotland

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This is a timeline of television in Scotland.

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

See also

References

  1. "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 2014-05-23. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  2. "Scotsport's debut". STV. July 2007. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2007.
  3. Cherry, S, ITV: The People's Channel, Reynolds and Hearn, London 2005
  4. It was a night of real drama as fire and death hit Glasgow theatre, Evening Times, 12 March 2013
  5. 1 2 "Grampian". TV Live. 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  6. "footage_library". 3 January 2008. Archived from the original on 3 January 2008. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
  7. http://scotland.stv.tv/history/273151-grampian-tv-turns-50-the-news/ [ dead link ]
  8. "The Grampian Television Studios". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11.
  9. Brocklehurst, Steven (27 September 2015). "Beechgrove Garden's Jim McColl at 80". BBC News. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  10. "Schedule - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  11. Kelly gets his eye in, Gavin Docherty, Evening Times, 8 October 1984
  12. "Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch". The Scotsman. 3 July 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  13. "TV Live – ITV Night Time". 24 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  14. "TV Ark: ITV Overnight Services". Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  15. Laing, Allan (1998-04-08). "Scottish satellite channel to close". The Herald . Scottish Media Newspapers Ltd.
  16. Scottish Media buys Grampian for 105m pounds, Cathy Newman, The Independent, 11 June 1997
  17. "Scots Sky Shuts". The Times. Times Newspapers Limited. 1998-04-08.
  18. "No-one gets the Choice BBC launches new channel". The Herald. 24 September 1998. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  19. Memorandum submitted by Border Television Limited, parliament.uk, 23 November 2001
  20. "Commission looks at broadcasting". BBC News. BBC. 8 August 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  21. "Opening ceremony for new BBC HQ". BBC News. BBC. 20 September 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  22. Fitzsimmons, Caitlin (24 June 2008). "SMG reborn as STV Group". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  23. "Goodbye SMG... Hello STV Group". BroadcastNow. 1 October 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
  24. "Ident Central - STV News 2009–2011". Archived from the original on 2019-02-13. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  25. Tryhorn, Chris (11 September 2009). "STV defends dropping ITV dramas". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
  26. "HD television is coming to STV". STV (TV network). Retrieved 1 June 2010.
  27. "STV agrees 18 million stg legal settlement with ITV". London South East. Reuters. 27 April 2011. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  28. "STV ends legal stand-off with ITV". BBC News.
  29. "Radio stations given Freeview reprieve over BBC Alba". BBC News. BBC. 21 May 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  30. "Ident Central" Scotland Tonight". Archived from the original on 2019-02-13. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  31. Kanter, Jake (5 March 2012). "ITV strikes 'landmark' agreements with STV and UTV". Broadcast. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  32. Farey-Jones, Daniel (5 March 2012). "ITV, STV and UTV agree new network arrangements". Media Week. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  33. "BBC One Scotland to go HD on the 14th". a516digital. 8 January 2013. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  34. "Launching BBC One Scotland HD and BBC One Wales HD". BBC. 11 January 2013.
  35. "STV announces its HD channel to be on satellite from end of April". STV News. 26 March 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  36. "BBC Two Scotland – Schedules, Thursday 22 May 2014". BBC. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  37. Plunkett, John (19 September 2014). "Scottish referendum: how broadcast media covered results". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  38. STV wins new local TV licences in Aberdeen, Dundee and Ayr, BBC News, 19 March 2015
  39. Carrell, Severin (21 June 2016). "BBC to scrap flagship current affairs show Scotland 2016". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  40. Humphries, Will. "BBC Scotland's new show brings politics to prime time".
  41. New channel STV2 to launch in April, stv.tv, 10 April 2017
  42. "STV to launch integrated Scottish and international news show". STV News. STV. 21 September 2016. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  43. Glenday, John (16 May 2018). "Struggling STV 2 to be taken off air in online shift". The Drum. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  44. Union to ballot over industrial action as almost 60 journalism jobs set to go, Hold the Front Page, 17 May 2018
  45. "Low key launch for new Scottish channel". Archived from the original on 2018-10-16. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  46. "Where to find the new BBC Scotland TV channel". BBC News. BBC. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  47. "Final Still Game to launch on new BBC Scotland channel". The Herald . 23 November 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  48. "New BBC Scotland channel peaks at 700,000 viewers on launch night". BBC News. BBC. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  49. 1 2 Ferguson, Brian (14 February 2019). "New BBC channel launches with 'Scotland's Question Time' and Scots stars". The Scotsman. Johnston Press. Retrieved 17 February 2019.