# 2007 in Scottish television

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This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2007.

## Events
### January

* 7 January – Death of television presenter Magnus Magnusson, long-time presenter of the BBC's Mastermind.
* 8 January – STV launches separate news services for the East and West of the STV Central region, initially as a five-minute opt out within the 6:00 pm edition of Scotland Today on weeknights. STV also launches two editions of North Tonight begin to receive two different programmes - those in the Dundee, Angus, Perthshire and north-east Fife area receive a dedicated bulletin within the main North Tonight programme.
* 10 January – Scottish Media Group and Belfast-based UTV agree the details of a merger, including a revised share split between the two. UTV will own 54% of the group, while SMG will take the remaining 46%. However, the deal is once again rejected at the end of February.

### February

* No events.

### March

* No events.

### April

* 12 April – SMG Group plc announce plans to sell Virgin Radio, to enable the company to focus on its television station, STV.

### May

* 3 May – Television coverage of the 2007 Scottish Parliament election.

### June

* 7 June – The long-running Scottish Six debate over a separate BBC Six O'Clock News bulletin for Scotland is reignited after the Scottish National Party's Pete Wishart writes to the BBC Director General Mark Thompson calling for a Scottish news programme to be introduced.

### July

* 18 July – It is announced that the Scottish Premier League has signed a deal with BBC Scotland for non-exclusive television coverage of the league.

### August

* August – The Scottish Government establishes the Scottish Broadcasting Commission to oversee television production and broadcasting in Scotland.
* 31 August – STV celebrates fifty years on air.

### September

* 20 September – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown opens the BBC Scotland's new Pacific Quay studio complex in Glasgow. At the opening ceremony BBC Director-General Mark Thompson outlines plans to increase BBC Scotland's content output.

### October

* 26 October – Inaugural meeting of the Scottish Broadcasting Commission. Chaired by Blair Jenkins the Commission hopes to take television in Scotland "to a different level".

### November

* No events.

### December

* 3 December – News opt-outs for Scotland during GMTV are taken over by MacMillan Media following a long-running dispute between GMTV and STV. Previously STV and Grampian had provided local news coverage during GMTV.

## Debuts
### BBC

* 26 February – The Adventure Show on BBC Two (2007–present)

### ITV

* 3 December – GMTV Scotland on STV (2007–2012)

## Television series

* Scotsport (1957–2008)
* Reporting Scotland (1968–1983; 1984–present)
* Scotland Today (1972–2009)
* Sportscene (1975–present)
* The Beechgrove Garden (1978–present)
* North Tonight (1980–2009)
* Taggart (1983–2010)
* Only an Excuse? (1993–2020)
* River City (2002–present)
* Politics Now (2004–2011)
* VideoGaiden (2005–2008)
* The Adventure Show (2007–present)
* That Was The Team That Was (2006–2008)

## Ending this year

* 31 December – Still Game (2002–2007; 2016–2019)

## Deaths

* 7 January – Magnus Magnusson, 79, broadcaster and presenter
* 9 February – Ian Richardson, 72, actor