23-12-2023, 02:09 AM
(23-12-2023, 12:00 AM)RhysJR Wrote: The BBC Northern Ireland award had the same treatment as the BBC Wales award, with a judging panel deciding the winner, and the award then being given ahead of time and announced on tonight's main Newsline bulletin.
www.bbc.co.uk
The only reference of a Scottish award I can see is this rather patchy Wikipedia article, which suggests the award was discontinued after 2007. Odd that NI and Wales are up for doing their own thing, but not Scotland (who argubally is the more successful sporting nation of three nations).
en.wikipedia.org
Didn't all the BBC Nations and Regions have their own SPOTY around the early-mid noughties? Seems like the English regions' SPOTY went by the wayside the same time as the Scottish one (with the BBC probably cited the old chestnut as "budget cuts").