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2006 in Scottish television
Summary
This is a list of events in
Scottish television
from 2006.
List of years in Scottish television
(
table
)
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Events
edit
January – It is announced that
Scottish Screen
will amalgamate with the
Scottish Arts Council
to form the newly created
Creative Scotland
.
2 March –
STV Group plc
announce that
Scottish Television
will be known onscreen as STV. Grampian will also rebrand.
30 May –
Scottish Television
becomes known as STV Central and
Grampian Television
as STV North.
July – Launch of the STV website
stv.tv
.
29 August – SMG officially rejects a merger offer from
Northern Irish
ITV franchise holder
UTV
. The merger approach would have given SMG shareholders a 52% stake in the combined company.
[1]
Debuts
edit
BBC
edit
10 February –
That Was The Team That Was
on
BBC One
(2006–2008)
Television series
edit
Scotsport
(1957–2008)
Reporting Scotland
(1968–1983; 1984–present)
Scotland Today
(1972–2009)
Sportscene
(1975–present)
The Beechgrove Garden
(1978–present)
Grampian Today
(1980–2009) (rebranded as
North Tonight
)
Taggart
(1983–2010)
[2]
Only an Excuse?
(1993–2020)
[3]
Still Game
(2002–2007; 2016–2019)
[4]
River City
(2002–present)
Politics Now
(2004–2011)
VideoGaiden
(2005–2008)
The Adventure Show
(2005–present)
Ending this year
edit
Unknown –
The Karen Dunbar Show
(2003–2006)
[5]
Deaths
edit
6 July –
Tom Weir
, 91, cricketer, author, and broadcaster
See also
edit
2006 in Scotland
References
edit
^
Day, Julia (29 August 2006). "SMG turns down UTV merger bid".
The Guardian
. Retrieved
1 May
2006
.
^
McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016).
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box
. Taylor & Francis. p. 27.
ISBN
978-1-317-16096-0
.
^
"Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?".
HeraldScotland
. Retrieved
4 November
2021
.
^
"Still Game comedy duo say Jack and Victor will not be back".
BBC News
. 15 February 2019
. Retrieved
24 May
2022
.
^
"The Scotsman Sessions #192: Karen Dunbar".
www.scotsman.com
. Retrieved
12 May
2021
.