2006 in Scottish television

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

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.^[1]

Debuts

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