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1999 in Scottish television

List of years in Scottish television (table)
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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

June

July

  • No events.

August

  • No events.

September

  • No events.

October

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

Television series

Ending this year

Deaths

  • 1 October – Lena Zavaroni, 35, child singer and television presenter

See also

References

  1. ^ "BBC 'not pressured' over Scottish Six". BBC News. BBC. 20 January 1999. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  2. ^ McVeigh, Karen (8 May 1999). "BBC get viewers' votes and win by a landslide". Daily Record. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  3. ^ Ident Central - Border Television
  4. ^ Haynes, Richard (17 November 2016). BBC Sport in Black and White. Springer. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-137-45501-7.
  5. ^ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
  6. ^ McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016). Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-16096-0.
  7. ^ "Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  8. ^ 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.