1981 in Scottish television

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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1981.

Events

29 July – The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer takes place at St Paul's Cathedral. More than 30,000,000 viewers watch the wedding on television – the second highest television audience of all time in Britain.^[1]

October - Scottish Television becomes the first ITV station to operate a regional Oracle teletext service, containing over 60 pages of local news, sport and information.^[2]
17 October - The first edition of a new Sunday lunchtime current affairs series Agenda is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland.

Scottish Television airs The Shepherds of Berneray, a 50-minute television documentary revolving around the people on the island of Berneray, North Uist, and how they lived at that time.
Alistair Moffat is appointed Head of Arts at Scottish Television.

10 March - Nicci Jolly, television presenter
5 April - Shabana Akhtar, actress
Unknown
- Cat Cubie, weather presenter
- Shauna Macdonald, actress
- Catriona Shearer, news presenter

^ "1981: Charles and Diana marry". On This Day. BBC. 29 July 1981. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^ "Turn to the Oracle to be kept in the picture". Glasgow Herald. 12 October 1981. p. 11. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^ Haynes, Richard (17 November 2016). BBC Sport in Black and White. Springer. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-137-45501-7.
^ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.