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2006 in Scottish television

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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2006.

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Events

  • January – It is announced that Scottish Screen will amalgamate with Scottish Arts Council to form the newly created Creative Scotland.
  • 2 March – STV Group plc announce that Scottish Television will be known onscreen as STV. Grampian will also rebrand.
  • 30 May – Scottish Television becomes known as STV Central and Grampian Television as STV North.
  • July – Launch of the STV website stv.tv.
  • 29 August – SMG officially rejects a merger offer from Northern Irish ITV franchise holder UTV. The merger approach from would have given SMG shareholders a 52% stake in the combined company.

    • BBC

  • 10 February – That Was The Team That Was on BBC One (2006–2008)

    • Television series

  • Scotsport (1957–2008)
  • Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
  • Scotland Today (1972–2009)
  • Sportscene (1975–present)
  • Public Account (1976–present)
  • The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
  • Grampian Today (1980–2009) (rebranded as North Tonight)
  • Taggart (1983–present)
  • Only an Excuse? (1993–present)
  • Still Game (2002–2007)
  • River City (2002–present)
  • Politics Now (2004–2011)
  • VideoGaiden (2005–2008)
  • The Adventure Show (2005–present)

    • Ending this year

  • Unknown – The Karen Dunbar Show (2003–2006)

    • Deaths

  • 6 July – Tom Weir, 91, cricketer, author, and broadcaster

    • References

    2006 in Scottish television Wikipedia
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