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2001 in Scottish television

List of years in Scottish television (table)
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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2001.

Events

January

  • No events.

February

March

  • 30 March – The nightly Scottish opt-out of BBC Choice, BBC Choice Scotland, ends and shortly after, BBC Two's variants for Scotland are made available to digital viewers for the first time.

April

  • No events.

May

  • No events.

June

July

  • 27 July – The digital channel S2 closes following a deal with ITV Digital to screen ITV2 in Scotland.

August

  • 11 August
    • ITV in England and Wales changes its name to ITV1, due to the growing number of other ITV services, including ITV2, ITV Digital, and the ITV Sport Channel, which launches on the same day. STV and Grampian are among the channels to retain their pre-ITV1 identities.
    • BBC Scotland's Saturday afternoon football results show is renamed Sportscene Results. It also becomes a programme in its own right as its predecessor, Afternoon Sportscene, had been an opt-out from Grandstand's Final Score segment.

September

October

  • No events.

November

  • No events.

December

  • No events.

Television series

Ending this year

Deaths

See also

References

  1. ^ "New Detective Series For BBC Scotland". Broadcast. 23 February 2001. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  2. ^ Haynes, Richard (17 November 2016). BBC Sport in Black and White. Springer. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-137-45501-7.
  3. ^ Brown, Ian (13 February 2020). Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities. Springer Nature. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-030-39407-3.
  4. ^ McElroy, Ruth (14 October 2016). Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Taylor & Francis. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-16096-0.
  5. ^ "Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think?". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  6. ^ MacDonald, Stuart (5 January 2021). "Chewin' The Fat too offensive to be made today admits Ford Kiernan". GlasgowLive. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  7. ^ Eames, Tom (6 September 2017). "Monarch of the Glen cast - where are they now?". Digital Spy. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

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