page_title: Scotsport
section_title: Spin-off shows
hierarchical_section_title: Scotsport / Spin-off shows
caption_attribution_description: English: Still frame from animated virtual set for Scottish Television produced by Liquid Image.
context_page_description: Scotsport was a Scottish sports television programme, broadcast on STV in northern and central Scotland between 1957 and 2008, as well as on ITV Border in southern Scotland.
  It was first broadcast in 1957 as Sports Desk and continuing until the end of its football highlights show in May 2008. As such, the programme was officially recognised as the world's longest-running sports television programme; however, it has since been overtaken by Hockey Night in Canada.
context_section_description: World of Sport from Scotland (billed as Scotsport Special) was broadcast as a occasional opt out from the network version of World of Sport on Saturday afternoons, it was presented by Arthur Montford and largely featured live and highlights coverage of Scottish sporting events incorporated with the network sporting events.
  Scotsport Results launched on 15 August 1964 and was broadcast on Saturday teatimes at around 5pm during the football season. It was presented by Arthur Montford, and latterly, Jim White until the end of the 1992/93 football season. Since then, A Scottish football results programme has been broadcast on BBC One Scotland known as Afternoon Sportscene (now Sportscene Results).
  From 1979 to 1984, a short preview programme called Sport Extra aired on Friday evenings at 6.25pm, following Scotland Today.
  Between the 1988–89 and 1999–2000 seasons, Scotsport Extra Time (later renamed simply Extra Time from 8 January 1994) aired mostly on Friday nights starting on 28 October 1988 at 10.35pm  lasting until 17 December 1993   moving to Saturday lunchtimes at 12:30pm from 8 January 1994 until 11 May 1996 and then moving to Friday nights at 7:00pm at the beginning of the new season on 10 August 1996 and featured previews of the weekend's fixtures, interviews and other sports including ice hockey, rugby, snooker and golf. Jim White presented the programme - alongside Hazel Irvine for the first two seasons - until his move to Sky in 1998 with his last programme on 10 May. Jim Delahunt took over with the programme starting with the final Friday night series on 31 July 1998 starting off at 6:00pm before moving back to its original timeslot of 7:00pm from 13 November, The last Friday night show was broadcast on 21 May 1999  before moving to Saturday lunchtime for the second time from 31 July 1999  until 9 December 2000
  During the seasons when Scottish Television owned the rights to Scotland's premier rugby league, live matches and highlights were shown under the Scotsport Rugby Roundup banner commencing on 14 January 2001  continuing until 16 May 2004. Kathleen Wood, Jim Delahunt, Jim Hay and Richie Gray presented the programme.
  During the seasons where STV had the highlights rights for both the Scottish Premier League and the First Division, Scotsport was divided into two programmes. Scotsport First aired on Sunday mornings and retained a traditional highlights format, while Scotsport SPL, was revamped as a magazine show on Monday nights, featuring three presenters, a live studio audience and more emphasis on features over match highlights. The Monday night show was heavily criticised by viewers and latterly returned to a more traditional format for the 2006-7 season.
  Scotsport Fanzone aired during the latter half of the 2005-06 season on Thursday nights, taking in a forum format encouraging Scottish football fans to have their say on the week's news.
caption: Scotsport Extra Time 1994 virtual set [by Liquid Image]
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