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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1983.
Events
January
- 17 January – Breakfast Time, Britain's first breakfast show, launches on BBC1. The new service includes four opt-outs, which allow BBC Scotland to broadcast its own news bulletin.
February
- 1 February – TV-am launches, with Good Morning Britain. However this is a national service with no opt-outs for Scottish news.
March
- No events.
April
- No events.
May
- After 15 years on air, the final edition of current affairs programme Current Account is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland.
June
- 9–10 June – Television coverage of the 1983 general election.
July
- No events.
August
- No events.
September
October
- 24 October – Sixty Minutes launches on BBC1, replacing Nationwide, and the Reporting Scotland name is dropped, becoming Scotland Sixty Minutes due to the regional news programmes being incorporated into the new programme.
November
- No events.
December
- No events.
Debuts
ITV
Television series
- Scotsport (1957–2008)
- Top Club (1971–1998)
- Scotland Today (1972–2009)
- Sportscene (1975–present)
- The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
- Grampian Today (1980–2009)
- Take the High Road (1980–2003)[3]
- Now You See It (1981–1986)
Ending this year
- 21 October – Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
Births
- March – Mark Prendergast, actor
See also
References
- ↑ "Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch". The Scotsman. 3 July 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ↑ Dalziel, Magdalene (6 September 2018). "Ten people you didn't know appeared in Taggart as show marks 35th anniversary". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ↑ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
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