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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2010. ==Events== *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 Press and Journal. *22 April – Launch of ''The Nightshift'' on STV Central. The overnight service launches on STV North on 13 July. *25 April – Leaders of Scotland's four main political parties take part in a televised debate on ''Sky News'' ahead of the upcoming general election. *6–7 May – Coverage of the 2010 general election is shown on all major television networks. *8 June – Plans for STV's news output to be taken over by Scottish News Consortium are effectively dead in the water after the recently elected coalition government at Westminster 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 Labour government 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. Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt calls the scheme "misguided". *20 June – Thousands of hours of programming from STV's archives will be made available online from later in the year after the Scottish broadcaster signed a deal with YouTube, the Daily Record'' reports. *9 August – Viewers in Scotland complain to the BBC after hearing newsreader Kate Silverton 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. *19 August – STV begins airing the UTV produced quiz strand ''Brain Box''. The unpopular show is axed in February 2011. *6 September – With the laun h of ITV's new breakfast service ''Daybreak'' replacing ''GMTV'', ''GMTV Scotland'' is renamed ''Daybreak Scotland''. *5 November – Members of the National Union of Journalists at the BBC begin a 48-hour strike in a dispute over proposed changes to the Corporation's pension scheme. BBC News operates a reduced service. *6 November – BBC TV bulletins in Scotland are dropped as the strike by the Corporation's journalists continues. *16 November – Former BBC Director-General Greg Dyke 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. *21 December – The BBC Trust gives the go-ahead for the Gaelic language channel BBC Alba to be made available on Freeview in Scotland. However, due to bandwidth restrictions the Corporation's 13 radio stations will be unavailable while the channel is on air. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2010 in Scottish television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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