1981 in Scottish television

none 1981 Scottish television This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1981. Events July 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.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/29/newsid_2494000/2494949.stm 1981: Charles and Diana marry BBC On This Day 28 April 2012 29 July 1981 September 1 September - 20th anniversary of Border Television. 8 September - BBC One Scotland changes its name to BBC Scotland. 30 September - 20th anniversary of Grampian Television. October 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. http://up.metropol247.co.uk/barcode/STV%20Oracle%201981.jpg Turn to the Oracle to be kept in the picture Glasgow Herald 12 October 1981 11 28 April 2012 17 October - The first edition of a new Sunday lunchtime current affairs series Agenda is broadcast on BBC1 Scotland. Unknown 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. Debuts ITV 5 January - Now You See It (1981–1986) Television series Scotsport (1957–2008)Haynes Richard BBC Sport in Black and White 17 November 2016 Springer 978-1-137-45501-7 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZM-GDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 en Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present) Top Club (1971–1998) Scotland Today (1972–2009) Sportscene (1975–Present)Sportscene at 50: Famous faces back for anniversary https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c99mpvzl71ko BBC Sport 8 August 2025 6 August 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250811222945/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c99mpvzl71ko 11 August 2025 live The Beechgrove Garden (1978–Present) Grampian Today (1980–2009) Take the High Road (1980–2003)Brown Ian Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities 13 February 2020 Springer Nature 978-3-030-39407-3 194 https://books.google.com/books?id=gXvQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 en Births 10 March - Nicci Jolly, television presenter 5 April - Shabana Akhtar, actress Unknown Cat Cubie, weather presenter Shauna Macdonald, actress Catriona Shearer, news presenter Deaths 6 January - A. J. Cronin, 84, writer (Doctor Finlay's Casebook) See also 1981 in Scotland References 1981 Category:Television in Scotland by year Category:1980s in Scottish television