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15 August – Scottish Television launches Scotsport Results to provide Scottish viewers with a round-up of the day's Scottish football. It is broadcast on Saturday teatimes at around 5pm during the football season. 22 August – The first broadcast of the BBC's football television show Match of the Day. It is shown on the recently launched BBC ...
The Scottish Football Association was formed in 1873, and the first official competition in Scotland commenced that same year, the Scottish Cup. The game in Scotland progressed further with the founding of the Scottish Football League in 1890, and the official sanctioning of professionalism in 1893. Queens Park's insistence on remaining amateur ...
Scottish Television (now, legally, known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV network franchisee for Central Scotland. The channel — the largest of the three ITV franchises in Scotland — has been in operation since 31 August 1957 and is the second-oldest franchise holder in the UK that is still active (the oldest being Granada Television ).
Games of "football" were played in Scotland in the Middle Ages, but medieval football bears little resemblance to association football (soccer). The ball could be carried by hand, and teams were sometimes of dozens of players or more, with scrummaging involved. Some of these games are still played, notably in Kirkwall and Jedburgh – see Ba game .
1950s. 1952. 14 March – Television becomes available in Scotland for the first time following the switching on of the Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station. 17 August – The Kirk o'Shotts transmitter begins broadcasting at full power after its main high-powered transmitters are switched on. 1953.
14 March – Television becomes available in Scotland for the first time following the switching on of the BBC service on VHF ch3 from the Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station. [1] 31 August – At 5:30 pm, Scottish Television starts broadcasting on VHF ch10 from the newly built transmitter at Black Hill, [2] close to the BBC's mast at Kirk o ...
Events. 1 January – Forth and Clyde Canal officially closed to navigation. [1] 2 May – Rootes car factory opens at Linwood, Renfrewshire to produce the Hillman Imp. 3 July – northbound Clyde Tunnel opened to traffic in Glasgow. 31 July – Peerage Act grants Peers of Scotland the same right to sit in the House of Lords as Peers of England ...
Timeline of Scottish history 1995 in: The UK • England • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1994–95 • 1995–96 1995 in Scottish television: