STV Edinburgh was a British local television channel based in

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which launched on 12 January 2015. It was owned and operated by

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in partnership with

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. The channel was closed on Sunday 23 April 2017 and replaced by

STV2 STV2 was a British local television network in Scotland, operating five city-based TV licences serving Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Ayr. It was owned and operated by STV Group plc. Initially broadcast as two separate stations � ...

, a semi-national network of local TV stations which itself closed on 1 July 2018.

History

STV were awarded local TV licences in January 2013 to operate two digital television channels, under the working titles of GTV and ETV, in Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively, for up to 12 years. Three other bids were made for the licence by Edinburgh News Network, Made in Edinburgh and Metro8 Edinburgh. The channel was run in partnership with

. STV Edinburgh launched at 7pm on Monday 12 January 2015, originally airing every day from midday until around midnight. Its sister station,

STV Glasgow STV Glasgow was a British local television station serving Glasgow and surrounding areas. The station was owned and operated by STV Group plc in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University. The channel was closed on Sunday 23 April 2017 a ...

, began broadcasting on Monday 2 June 2014. The channel soon extended its hours in March 2015. The two city channels then began to share the majority of programming, with most STV Edinburgh productions also broadcast on its sister station in Glasgow. On Monday 24 April 2017, with the launch of STV City channels in Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee, the network was merged and relaunched as

Programming

STV Edinburgh aired a locally focused schedule of new, archived and imported programming, including a daily magazine show, an expanded ''

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'' service, features, former STV programmes, a morning kids block known as ‘Weans World’, documentaries and drama. The main non-news productions from the Edinburgh studios were the nightly magazine show, ''The Late Show'' and coverage of the

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.STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh launch new chat show 'The Late Show'
stv.tv, 28 December 2015 STV Edinburgh also aired archived drama series including ''

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'', ''

Take the High Road ''Take the High Road'' (renamed ''High Road'' from 1994 to 2003) was a Scottish soap opera produced by Scottish Television, which started in February 1980 as an ITV network daytime programme, and was broadcast until 2003. It was set in the ficti ...

'' and ''

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'' alongside the acclaimed Polish

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drama ''

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'' (''Days of Honour'') and the comedy drama series ''

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''. The station pledged to broadcast at least an hour a week of non-English language programming.

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