2006 in Scottish television

none December 2023 2006 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. SMG turns down UTV merger bid The Guardian 29 August 2006 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/aug/29/smg.radio 1 May 2006 Julia Day Debuts BBC 10 February – That Was The Team That Was on BBC One (2006–2008) 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) 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 20 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) (rebranded as North Tonight) Taggart (1983–2010)McElroy Ruth Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box 14 October 2016 Taylor & Francis 978-1-317-16096-0 27 https://books.google.com/books?id=yColDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 en Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)Hogmanay favourite Only an Excuse says cheerio. What did you think? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18979762.excuse-bbc1-scotland-review/ HeraldScotland 31 December 2020 4 November 2021 en Still Game (2002–2007; 2016–2019)Still Game comedy duo say Jack and Victor will not be back https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47212482 BBC News 24 May 2022 15 February 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)The Scotsman Sessions #192: Karen Dunbar https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/theatre-and-stage/the-scotsman-sessions-192-karen-dunbar-3147423 www.scotsman.com 12 May 2021 en Deaths 6 July – Tom Weir, 91, cricketer, author, and broadcaster See also 2006 in Scotland References 2006 Category:Television in Scotland by year Category:2000s in Scottish television