1999 in Scottish television
Overview of the events of 1999 in Scottish television
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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1999.
Events
January
- 20 January – The UK government says no political pressure was applied to the BBC over its decision not to give Scotland a separate version of the Six O'Clock News.[1]
February
- No events.
March
- No events.
April
- 30 April – Launch of the digital channel S2, the Scottish equivalent of ITV2.
May
- 6–7 May – Television coverage of the 1999 Scottish Parliament general election.[2]
- 12 May – The Scottish Parliament meets in Edinburgh for its first session. Proceedings have been televised from the outset.
June
- 6 June – The final edition of political current affairs programme Scottish Lobby is broadcast on BBC2 Scotland.
July
- No events.
August
- No events.
September
- No events.
October
- 1 October – Death of Lena Zavaroni, the Scottish child singer and television presenter.
- 4 October – Launch of Newsnight Scotland, the BBC Scotland opt-out of the main Newsnight programme on BBC Two.
- 31 October – Establishment of TeleG, Scotland's first daily Gaelic language digital channel.
November
- 8 November – Border Television drops its famous 'chopsticks' logo which it had used since it launched in 1961 when it adopts the ITV 'hearts' idents.[3]
December
- No events.
Debuts
BBC
- 13 January – Chewin' the Fat on BBC One Scotland (1999–2002)
- 4 October – Newsnight Scotland on BBC Two Scotland (1999–2014)
Television series
- 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)
- High Road (1980–2003)[4]
- Taggart (1983–2010)[5]
- Crossfire (1984–2004)
- Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001)
- Win, Lose or Draw (1990–2004)
- Telefios (1993–2000)
- Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)[6]
Ending this year
- 6 April - Machair (1993–1999)[7]
- 3 December – Fun House (1989–1999)
Deaths
- 1 October – Lena Zavaroni, 35, child singer and television presenter
See also
References
- ^ "BBC 'not pressured' over Scottish Six". BBC News. BBC. 20 January 1999. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
- ^ McVeigh, Karen (8 May 1999). "BBC get viewers' votes and win by a landslide". Daily Record. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
- ^ Ident Central - Border Television
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
- ^ 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.
