This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1989.
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... |
Events edit
January edit
- 7 January – BBC Scotland launches an extended Saturday teatime results programme. Rather than opting out of the last few minutes of Grandstand, the programme, called Afternoon Sportscene, runs for the entire duration of the time allocated for the day's results, starting at some point between 1 and 5 minutes before the network aired English counterpart Final Score.
- January – Scottish Television launches a new set of idents.[1]
February edit
- 5 February – The world's first commercial DBS system, Sky Television, goes on air in the United Kingdom.
March edit
- 15 March – BBC1 airs John's Not Mad,[2] an edition of the QED documentary strand which shadowed John Davidson, a 15-year-old from Galashiels in Scotland, with severe Tourette syndrome. The film explores John's life in terms of his family and the close-knit community around him, and how they all cope with a misunderstood condition.
April edit
- 20 April – John Leslie becomes the first Scottish presenter of Blue Peter.[3]
May edit
- 20 May – Arthur Montford presents his final edition of Scotsport after 32 years with live coverage of the Scottish Cup final.
June edit
- No events.
July edit
- No events.
August edit
- 6 August – After being a co-host on the show last season, Jim White takes on the main presenting role on Scotsport replacing the now-retired Arthur Montford.
- 25 August – Rupert Murdoch delivers the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in which he launches an attack on the narrow elitism within the British television industry.[4]
September edit
- 1 September - The first ITV generic look is introduced.[5] All three regions adopt the look, but Scottish drops it in December.
October edit
- No events.
November edit
- No events.
December edit
- December – The controversial Broadcasting Bill is introduced into Parliament by the Government. It will pave the way for the deregulation of commercial television.[6]
Debuts edit
BBC edit
- Unknown - The Singing Kettle (1989-1993)
ITV edit
- 11 February -
Home and Away (1988–present) - 24 February - Fun House (1989–1999)
Television series edit
- Scotsport (1957–2008)
- Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
- 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)[7]
- Taggart (1983–2010)[8]
- James the Cat (1984–1992)
- Crossfire (1984–2004)
- City Lights (1984–1991)[9]
- The Campbells (1986–1990)
- Naked Video (1986–1991)[10]
- Wheel of Fortune (1988–2001)
Births edit
- Unknown - Jordan Smith, actor
Deaths edit
- 17 December - Edward Boyd, 73, radio and television writer
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Ident Central - Scottish Television 1989-1992". Archived from the original on 2018-10-26. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
- ^ John's Not Mad at IMDb
- ^ "I Love Blue Peter – John Leslie". BBC Online. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
- ^ Shaps, Simon (24 August 2009). "Rupert predicted the future but will James be such a visionary?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ^ "Scottish Television ITV Corporate Ident 1989 Announcer Brian Ford". YouTube. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ^ "The Broadcasting Acts of 1990 and 1996". Ofcom. Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ^ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
- ^ McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016). Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-16096-0.
- ^ Williams, Craig (30 April 2020). "A look back at classic Glasgow comedy show City Lights". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ Tait, Derek (15 November 2019). A 1980s Childhood. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-4456-9242-5.
