1990 in Scottish television

Overview of the events of 1990 in Scottish television

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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1990.

Events

10 May – The Broadcasting Act 1990 receives its third reading in the House of Commons and is passed with 259 votes to 180.^[1]

20 June – Archie MacPherson commentates his last football match for BBC Scotland with the Scotland v Brazil World Cup match in Italy. Brazil won 1-0, leaving Scotland eliminated from the finals.

25 August – Jock Brown transfers from Scotsport to BBC Scotland to replace Archie MacPherson as Sportscene's lead football commentator. Jock is replaced at Scotsport by Gerry McNee.

15 October – BBC1 launches a new weekday morning service called Daytime UK.^[3] Linked live from Birmingham and running for four hours, from 8.50am until lunchtime, the new service includes hourly Scottish news summaries, broadcast after the on-the-hour network news bulletins.

November – The Broadcasting Act 1990 receives Royal Assent. The Act paves the way for the deregulation of the British commercial broadcasting industry, and will have many consequences for the ITV system.^[4]^[5]

Scottish Television introduces a supplementary ident adding to the ITV generic logo. It features several circles rolling in over the thistle and falling over as one to reveal the name Scottish Television.

Scotsport (1957–2008)
Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
Top Club (1971–1998)
Scotland Today (1972–2009)
Sportscene (1975–present)
The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
Grampian Today (1980–2009)
Take the High Road (1980–2003)^[6]
Taggart (1983–2010)^[7]
James the Cat (1984–1992)
Crossfire (1984–2004)
City Lights (1984–1991)^[8]
Naked Video (1986–1991)^[9]
Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001)
Fun House (1989–1999)

^ "Broadcasting Bill". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 10 May 1990. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^ IBA Engineering Announcements 10 July 1990
^ "BBC One London – 15 October 1990 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
^ Dugdale, John (20 November 2000). "Broadcasting Act, 1990". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
^ "The Broadcasting Acts of 1990 and 1996". Ofcom. Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
^ 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.
^ Williams, Craig (30 April 2020). "A look back at classic Glasgow comedy show City Lights". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
^ Tait, Derek (15 November 2019). A 1980s Childhood. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4456-9242-5.