2006 in Scottish television

This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2006.

Events January – It is announced that Scottish Screen will amalgamate with the Scottish Arts Council to form the newly created Creative Scotland. 2 March – STV Group plc announce that Scottish Television will be known onscreen as STV. Grampian will also rebrand. 30 May – Scottish Television becomes known as STV Central and Grampian Television as STV North. July – Launch of the STV website stv.tv. 29 August – SMG officially rejects a merger offer from Northern Irish ITV franchise holder UTV. The merger approach would have given SMG shareholders a 52% stake in the combined company.

Debuts

BBC 10 February – That Was The Team That Was on BBC One (2006–2008)

Television series Scotsport (1957–2008) Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present) Scotland Today (1972–2009) Sportscene (1975–present) The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present) Grampian Today (1980–2009) (rebranded as North Tonight) Taggart (1983–2010) Only an Excuse? (1993–2020) Still Game (2002–2007; 2016–2019) River City (2002–2026) Politics Now (2004–2011) VideoGaiden (2005–2008) The Adventure Show (2005–present)

Ending this year 7 April – The Karen Dunbar Show (2003–2006)

Deaths 6 July – Tom Weir, 91, cricketer, author, and broadcaster

See also 2006 in Scotland

References