1998 in Scottish television
This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1998.
Events
May
- 31 May – Sky Scottish closes after just over eighteen months on air, because the channel fails to meet its financial targets.
July
- 29 July – British Digital Broadcasting rebrand as ONdigital.
September
- 23 September – BBC Choice, the UK's first digital-only TV station, launches. The channel broadcasts around two hours each night of programming for Scotland as an opt-out from the main channel.
October
- 1 October – Digital satellite television launches in the UK, operated by Sky Digital. This sees the start of UK channels transmitting in 16:9 widescreen.
December
- 11 December – BBC governors reject a request to give Scotland its own Six O'Clock News bulletin. Instead an extra £20m will be spent on new jobs and programming in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Debuts
BBC
- Unknown – ''Looking After Jo Jo''
Television series
- Scotsport
- Reporting Scotland
- Scotland Today
- Sportscene
- The Beechgrove Garden
- Grampian Today
- High Road
- Taggart
- Crossfire
- Wheel of Fortune
- Fun House
- Win, Lose or Draw
- Machair
- Telefios
- ''Only an Excuse?''
Ending this year
- 15 July – Top Club
- 7 December – McCallum
- 24 December – ''The Baldy Man''