1983 in Scottish television

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

July

  • No events.

August

  • No events.

September

  • 6 September – ITV broadcasts the STV-produced Killer. It would later be turned into a series and re-titled Taggart.[1]

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

  • 6 September – Taggart (1983–present)

Television series

Ending this year

Births

See also

References

  1. "Fifty years on, STV set for studio switch". The Scotsman. 3 July 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
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