1990 in Scottish television

Events
  • 10 May – The Broadcasting Bill receives its third reading in the House of Commons and is passed with 259 votes to 180.[1]
  • 20 June – Archie MacPherson commentates his last football match for BBC Scotland with the Scotland v Brazil World Cup match in Italy which Brazil won 1-0 leaving Scotland eliminated from the finals. He was later replaced by Jock Brown as main commentator who had commentated the same match on STV when Sportscene returned on 25 August. Brown was replaced by Gerry McNee for Scotsport which was shown the following day.
  • 15 October – BBC1 launches a new weekday morning service called Daytime UK.[2] Linked live from Birmingham and running for four hours, from 8.50am until lunchtime, the new service includes hourly Scottish news summaries, broadcast after the on-the-hour network news bulletins.
  • November – The Broadcasting Act 1990 receives Royal Assent. The Act paves the way for the deregulation of the British commercial broadcasting industry, and will have many consequences for the ITV system.[3][4]
  • Unknown – Scottish Television introduces a supplementary ident adding to the ITV generic logo. It features several circles rolling in over the thistle and falling over as one to reveal the name Scottish Television.

Debuts

BBC2
  • 18 September – Over the Moon with Mr Boon (1990–1996)

ITV
  • 20 January – Win, Lose or Draw (1990–2004)

Television series

Ending this year
gollark: Clearly, maths is wrong and I have created a brave new definition of prime numbers.
gollark: Oh no, my code thinks a number is composite when it is prime, oh bee.
gollark: Rege̿̔̉x-based HTML parsers are the cancer that is killing StackOverflow it is too late it is too late we cannot be saved the transgression of a chi͡ld ensures regex will consume all living tissue (except for HTML which it cannot, as previously prophesied) dear lord help us how can anyone survive this scourge using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an eternity of dread torture and security holes using regex as a tool to process HTML establishes a breach between this world and the dread realm of c͒ͪo͛ͫrrupt entities (like SGML entities, but more corrupt) a mere glimpse of the world of reg​ex parsers for HTML will ins​tantly transport a programmer's consciousness into a world of ceaseless screaming, he comes, the pestilent slithy regex-infection wil​l devour your HT​ML parser, application and existence for all time like Visual Basic only worse he comes he comes do not fi​ght he com̡e̶s, ̕h̵i​s un̨ho͞ly radiańcé destro҉ying all enli̍̈́̂ghtenment, HTML tags lea͠ki̧n͘g fr̶ǫm ̡yo​͟ur eye͢s̸ ̛l̕ik͏e liq​uid pain, the song of re̸gular exp​ression parsing will exti​nguish the voices of mor​tal man from the sp​here I can see it can you see ̲͚̖î̩́t́̋̀ it is beautiful t​he final snuffing of the lie​s of Man ALL IS LOŚ̏̈́T ALL I​S LOST the pon̷y he comes he c̶̮omes he comes the ich​or permeates all MY FACE MY FACE ᵒh god no NO NOO̼O​O NΘ stop the an​*͑̾̾​̅ͫ͏g͛͆̾l̍ͫͥe̠̅s ͎a̧͈͖r̽̾̈́e n​ot rè̑ͧaͨl̃ͤ͂ ZA̡͊͠LGΌ ISͮ̂҉̯͈͕ TO͇̹ͅƝ̴ȳ̳ TH̘Ë͖́̉ ͠P̯͍̭O̚​N̐Y̡ Hͨ͊̽E̾͛ͪ ͧ̾ͬCͭ̏ͥOͮ͏̮M͊̒̚Ȇͩ͌Sͯ̿̔
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See also

References
  1. "Broadcasting Bill". Hansard. 10 May 1990. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  2. "BBC One London – 15 October 1990 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  3. Dugdale, John (20 November 2000). "Broadcasting Act, 1990". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
  4. "The Broadcasting Acts of 1990 and 1996". Ofcom. Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
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