List of years in Scottish television (table)
+...

This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1986.

Events

January

  • No events.

February

  • No events.

March

  • No events.

April

May

June

  • No events.

July

August

  • No events.

September

  • 1 September – 25th anniversary of Border Television.
  • 3 September – BBC Scotland announce details of their £20m autumn/winter line-up of programmes.[6]
  • 30 September – 25th anniversary of Grampian Television.

October

  • 20 October – Following considerable criticism, including from the Independent Broadcasting Authority, the 1984 changes made by Scottish Television to Scotland Today are reversed and the programme once again becomes a news broadcast with the feature elements transferred to a new lunchtime programme called Live at One Thirty.
  • 27 October – BBC One starts a full daytime television service. Before today, excluding special events coverage, BBC One had closed down at times during weekday mornings and afternoons broadcasting trade test transmissions and, from May 1983, Pages From Ceefax. As part of the new service, changes are made to the timings of the daytime Scottish news bulletins. The lunchtime summary is broadcast prior to the lunchtime news, at 12:55 pm, and the mid-afternoon summary moves from BBC1 to BBC2. Also, the Gaelic children's slot moves to 9.45am.

November

  • No events.

December

  • No events.

Debuts

BBC

ITV

Television series

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. "Weekender viewing guide". The Glasgow Herald. No. 19 April 1986. p. 20. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  2. Reynolds, Jim (21 April 1986). "Such a close call for Hearts". The Glasgow Herald. p. 7. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  3. 1 2 Tait, Derek (15 November 2019). A 1980s Childhood. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4456-9242-5.
  4. 1 2 McKevitt, Steven (9 August 2018). The Persuasion Industries: The Making of Modern Britain. Oxford University Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-19-255477-2.
  5. ""1986: Prince Andrew weds Sarah Ferguson", BBC News". 23 July 1986. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  6. Naismith, Albert (4 September 1986). "BBC Scotland proud of £20m new line-up". The Glasgow Herald. p. 6. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  7. Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
  8. McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016). Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-16096-0.
  9. Williams, Craig (30 April 2020). "A look back at classic Glasgow comedy show City Lights". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.