Scotsport
| Scotsport | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Sport |
| Presented by |
Arthur Montford Jim White Jim Delahunt Grant Stott Andy Walker Richie Gray |
| Country of origin | Scotland |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Henry Eagles, Andrea Brownlie, Alastair Hindle |
| Running time | 60–90 minutes (including adverts) |
| Production company(s) | STV News |
| Release | |
| Original network |
STV (Scottish/Grampian), ITV Border Scotland |
| Original release | 18 September 1957 – 22 May 2008 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
STV Sports Centre Champions League Live |
Scotsport was a Scottish sports television programme, broadcast on STV in northern and central Scotland, as well as on ITV Border in southern Scotland. It was recognised as the world's longest-running sports television magazine.
The show began on 18 September 1957, originally known as Sports Desk. The programme changed to the Scotsport title a short time later and the vast majority of its coverage was of football, rather than sport in general, as the name might imply. The football coverage was, in turn, most of the Scottish Premier League. The show also followed Scottish clubs in the UEFA Champions League via live matches and highlights programmes, though was simply branded as Champions League Live. Scotsport's main rival was the long-running BBC Scotland strand Sportscene, fronted by Archie Macpherson and then Dougie Donnelly.
In 1984, Sally McNair joined the show and become the first female television sports journalist in Scotland.
Prior to season 2007–08, Scotsport faced competition for viewers of its SPL coverage. On 18 July 2007, it was announced that the SPL had signed a similar deal with BBC Scotland for non-exclusive television coverage of the league. This didn't affect Scotsport's production, though the programme experienced a reduction in viewer numbers considering its terrestrial coverage of the SPL was no longer exclusive. Scotsport continued in its 10.40pm-11.40pm Monday night slot for the remainder of the 2007–08 season, with Sportscene's SPL offering being shown later in the week on Wednesdays at 10pm on BBC Two Scotland.
On Hogmanay 2007, STV broadcast 50 Years of Scotsport, a programme taking a look back at the shows best moments over the 50 years it had been on air. Featuring colleagues from past and present, one of the show's most recent presenters, Grant Stott presented the Hogmanay special. STV decided to axe the main programme in November 2007, after BBC Scotland won a five-year deal to show SPL highlights. The programme aired for the last time on Thursday 22 May 2008.
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