1998 in Scottish television explained
This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1998.
Events
January to April
May
- 31 May – Sky Scottish closes after just over eighteen months on air, because the channel fails to meet its financial targets.[1]
June
July
August
September
- 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
- 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
December
- 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
BBC
Television series
Ending this year
See also
Notes and References
- News: Scots Sky Shuts . The Times . 1998-04-08 .
- News: No-one gets the Choice BBC launches new channel . The Herald . 24 September 1998 . 19 August 2017.
- News: BBC rejects Scottish Six . BBC News . 11 December 1998 . 4 May 2012.
- Book: Brown . Ian . Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities . 13 February 2020 . Springer Nature . 978-3-030-39407-3 . 194 .
- Book: McElroy . Ruth . Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box . 14 October 2016 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-317-16096-0 . 27 .
- Book: Berberich . Christine . Campbell . Neil . Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life: Memory, Place and the Senses . 9 March 2016 . Routledge . 978-1-317-18472-0 . 35 .
- Web site: Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think? . HeraldScotland . 4 November 2021.