Editing Scotsport (section)

==History==
Launching less than a month after the opening of [[Scottish Television]], the programme first aired on 18 September 1957,<ref>{{cite news|title = ''Scotsport's'' debut|publisher = STV|date = July 2007|url = http://www.stv.tv/content/tv/footage_library/Decades/1950s.html|accessdate =6 July 2007}}</ref> as ''Sports Desk''. The ''Scotsport'' title was adopted a short time later, and the vast majority of its coverage was of [[association football|football]], rather than sport in general, as the name might imply. The football coverage, in turn, concentrated mostly on [[Scottish Premier League]] clubs. The show also followed [[Football in Scotland|Scottish]] clubs in the [[UEFA Champions League]] via live matches and highlights programmes. ''Scotsport'''s main rival was the long-running [[BBC Scotland]] strand ''[[Sportscene]]'', which continues to broadcast to this day.

Prior to the 2007–08 season, ''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.<ref>{{cite news|title = Two new major broadcasting deals for the SPL|publisher = Scottish Premier League|date = July 2007|url = http://www.scotprem.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10002~1075392,00.html|accessdate =6 July 2007}}</ref> This did not affect ''Scotsport's'' production, although the programme lost ratings. ''Scotsport'' continued in its hour-long Monday night slot at 10.40pm for the remainder of the 2007–08 season, with ''Sportscene's'' SPL highlight airing 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. A month before the anniversary programme aired, STV decided to axe ''Scotsport'', after BBC Scotland won a five-year deal to show SPL highlights.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12463022.scotsport-staff-given-notice-as-show-hangs-up-its-boots/ |title=Scotsport staff given notice as show hangs up its boots |work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] |location=Glasgow |date=26 April 2008 |accessdate=3 January 2021}}</ref> The programme aired for the last time on Thursday 22 May 2008.

A smaller-scale sports magazine show, ''[[STV Sports Centre]]'', was launched on Friday 5 March 2010 but it was axed fifteen months later.