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1998 in Scottish television

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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1998.

Events

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January to April

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  • No events.

May

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  • 31 May – Sky Scottish closes after just over eighteen months on air, because the channel fails to meet its financial targets.[1]

June

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  • No events.

July

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August

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  • No events.

September

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  • 23 September – BBC Choice, the UK's first digital-only TV station, launches.[2] The channel broadcasts around two hours each night of programming for Scotland as an opt-out from the main channel.

October

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  • 1 October – Digital satellite television launches in the UK, operated by Sky Digital. This sees the start of UK channels transmitting in 16:9 widescreen.

November

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  • No events.

December

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  • 11 December – BBC governors reject a request to give Scotland its own Six O'Clock News bulletin. Instead an extra £20m will be spent on new jobs and programming in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.[3]

Debuts

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BBC

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Television series

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Ending this year

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Scots Sky Shuts". The Times. 8 April 1998.
  2. ^ "No-one gets the Choice BBC launches new channel". The Herald. 24 September 1998. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ^ "BBC rejects Scottish Six". BBC News. 11 December 1998. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  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. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 4 November 2021.