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to help independent television companies who were having difficulties meeting their news coverage remit because of financial constraints, and would have seen Scottish News Consortium awarded £47million from public funds.
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begins in the STV Central region when the BBC Two analogue signal emanating from the Torosay transmitter and its relays is switched off. The remaining analogue channels stop broadcasting from this transmitter two weeks
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swear at the end of a bulletin. The presenter had not realised the mic was still on when she uttered the expletive, which is only picked up by BBC One Scotland. The BBC later apologises for the incident.
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signals its intention to scrap the scheme that made the establishment of alternative news providers possible. The Independently Funded News Consotria scheme had been established by the previous
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says that a Scottish television channel would be "of value" as an alternative to the BBC and STV, but should be publicly funded as advertising revenue would be difficult to raise.
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25 March – STV loses the contract to provide Scottish news coverage on its own television channel to Scottish News Consortium, a group involving the parent company of the
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signal switched off. Two weeks later the other analogue channels are switched off. The nearby Keelylang Hill transmitter also goes through switchover during May.
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in Scotland. However, due to bandwidth restrictions the corporation's 13 radio stations will be unavailable while the channel is on air.
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in the STV North region is completed when the analogue signal emanating from Rosemarkie and its relays are switched off.
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begin a 48-hour strike in a dispute over proposed changes to the corporation's pension scheme.
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TV bulletins in Scotland are dropped as the strike by the corporation's journalists continues.
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22 September – Digital switchover is completed at the Knockmore transmitter and its relays.
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is broadcast, bringing to an end a series which had been on air for more than 25 years.
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28 July – Digital switchover is completed at the Skriaig transmitter and its relays.
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21 July – Digital switchover is completed at the Eitshal transmitter and its relays.
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in Scotland, with a gradual switch-off process set to be completed by mid-June 2011.
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9 August – Viewers in Scotland complain to the BBC after hearing newsreader
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25 April – Leaders of Scotland's four main political parties take part in a
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8 June – Plans for STV's news output to be taken over by Scottish
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is shown on all major television networks and once again,
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Consortium are effectively dead in the water after the
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15 September – Digital switchover is completed at the
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Overview of the events of 2010 in Scottish television
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recently elected coalition government at Westminster
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launches. It carries the West Central Scotland feed.
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Index

List of years in Scottish television
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