1998 in Scottish television
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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1998.
Events
January to April
- No events.
May
- 31 May – Sky Scottish closes after just over eighteen months on air, because the channel fails to meet its financial targets.[1]
June
- No events.
July
- 29 July – British Digital Broadcasting rebrand as ONdigital.
August
- No events.
September
- 23 September – BBC Choice, the UK's first digital-only TV station, launches.[2] The channel broadcasts around two hours each night of programming for Scotland as an opt-out from the main channel.
October
- 1 October – Digital satellite television launches in the UK, operated by Sky Digital. This sees the start of UK channels transmitting in 16:9 widescreen.
November
- No events.
December
- 11 December – BBC governors reject a request to give Scotland its own Six O'Clock News bulletin. Instead an extra £20m will be spent on new jobs and programming in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.[3]
Debuts
BBC
- Unknown – Looking After Jo Jo (1998)
Television series
- Scotsport (1957–2008)[4]
- Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
- Scotland Today (1972–2009)
- Sportscene (1975–present)
- The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
- Grampian Today (1980–2009)
- High Road (1980–2003)[5]
- Taggart (1983–2010)[6]
- Crossfire (1984–2004)
- Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001)
- Fun House (1989–1999)
- Win, Lose or Draw (1990–2004)
- Machair (1993–1999)[7]
- Telefios (1993–2000)
- Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)[8]
Ending this year
- 15 July – Top Club (1971–1998)
- 7 December – McCallum (1995–1998)
- 24 December – The Baldy Man (1995–1998)
See also
References
- ^ "Scots Sky Shuts". The Times. 8 April 1998.
- ^ "No-one gets the Choice BBC launches new channel". The Herald. 24 September 1998. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ "BBC rejects Scottish Six". BBC News. 11 December 1998. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ Haynes, Richard (17 November 2016). BBC Sport in Black and White. Springer. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-137-45501-7.
- ^ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
- ^ McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016). Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-16096-0.
- ^ Berberich, Christine; Campbell, Neil (9 March 2016). Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life: Memory, Place and the Senses. Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-317-18472-0.
- ^ "Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 4 November 2021.