''STV News'' is a Scottish news service produced by
STV. The news department produces two regional services covering STV's Channel 3 franchise areas of
Northern and
Central
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Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
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Scotland.
STV's news programmes are produced from studios in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen with reporters also based at newsrooms in Dundee and Inverness and political correspondents based at Holyrood and Westminster. Freelance correspondents and camera crews are based on the Orkney and Shetland Isles, Wick and Fort William with a permanent Western Isles correspondent based in Stornoway.
In addition to its daily bulletins and online services, STV News also produces the current affairs programme ''
Scotland Tonight
''Scotland Tonight'' is a Scottish news and current affairs programme, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by STV News. The programme is presented by ''STV News at Six'' Central anchor John MacKay on ...
'' along with feature documentaries.
Broadcast
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Two separate editions of ''STV News at Six'' air on STV Central and STV North each weeknight at 6:00 pm. ''
ITV Evening News
The ''ITV Evening News'' is the evening news programme produced by ITN on the British television network ITV. It airs Monday to Friday from 6:30pm, covering British national and international news stories and is presented by Mary Nightingale.
...
'', the
networked news programme, follows at 6:30 pm.
The main evening programmes are supplemented by shorter ''STV News'' bulletins seven days a week:
*''Good Morning Scotland'' (not to be confused with the BBC Radio Scotland programme of the
same name) updates for the North and Central regions during ''
Good Morning Britain'' at around 6:10am, 7:10am and 8:10am each weekday. Both bulletins are broadcast from Glasgow.
*Lunchtime bulletins for the North and Central regions at 1:55pm each weekday, following the ''
ITV Lunchtime News
The ''ITV Lunchtime News'' is the afternoon news programme produced by ITN on the British television network ITV. It airs Monday to Friday from 1:30pm, covering British national and international news stories and is presented by Nina Hossain.
...
''.
*Late news bulletins for the North and Central regions at 10:30pm each weeknight, following ''
ITV News at Ten
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''.
*Weekend bulletins, broadcast across all regions from Glasgow – one on Saturday evenings, one on Sunday evenings.
In the Central region, ''STV News at Six'' is presented jointly from STV's Glasgow and Edinburgh studios. The programme includes opt-outs for separate news, sport and weather for the East and West of the region.
In the North, viewers in
Tayside
Tayside ( gd, Taobh Tatha) was one of the nine regions used for local government in Scotland from 15 May 1975 to 31 March 1996. The region was named for the River Tay.
It was created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, following recom ...
and northeast
Fife
Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...
receive a separate 5-minute bulletin during the main ''STV News at Six'' each weeknight, presented and produced from STV's studios at Seabraes in
Dundee
Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...
and directed from a technical gallery in Aberdeen. While the Tayside bulletin is broadcast, viewers further north see more news from the north-east,
Highlands and Islands
The Highlands and Islands is an area of Scotland broadly covering the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland and Outer Hebrides (Western Isles).
The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 ...
, broadcast from the main studio in Aberdeen.
All North, East and pan-regional bulletins are broadcast one hour after their original airing on
STV +1. Bulletins are also available for catch-up for 1 day after broadcast on the
STV Player
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website.
Digital
STV News operates a digital news service via its
website
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and
mobile app
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s. It has a dedicated team digital staff working on their website, creating original journalism and collaborating with journalists in the news teams in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Inverness.
Overview
''STV News at Six'' launched on Monday 23 March 2009 as part of a major station revamp. The nightly news programmes were previously known as ''
Scotland Today
''Scotland Today'' is a Scottish regional news programme covering Central Scotland, produced by STV Central (formerly Scottish Television). Despite its name suggesting a national remit, the programme was actually limited to stories around STV's Ce ...
'' in the STV Central region and ''
North Tonight
''North Tonight'' is a Scottish nightly regional news programme covering the North of Scotland, produced by STV North (formerly Grampian Television).
History
During the late 1960s and 1970s, Grampian's regional news service consisted of daily ...
'' in the
STV North region, with both programmes carrying local opt-outs from January 2007 onwards.
Previously in the Central region,
viewers in the West and East areas received 5-minute bulletins within the main 6pm programme – ''STV News West'' covered the area from
Tobermory to
Falkirk
Falkirk ( gd, An Eaglais Bhreac, sco, Fawkirk) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow.
Falkirk had a ...
, with the presenter based in the main studio in Glasgow. Meanwhile, ''STV News East'' covered the area from
Anstruther
Anstruther ( sco, Ainster or Enster ; gd, Ànsruthair) is a small coastal resort town in Fife, Scotland, situated on the north-shore of the Firth of Forth and south-southeast of St Andrews. The town comprises two settlements, Anstruther ...
to
Dunbar
Dunbar () is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ecc ...
and was presented and produced at STV's Edinburgh studios. The full-length separate ''STV News at Six'' programmes for the two areas were launched on Monday 23 May 2011.
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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 †...
national news
On Monday 2 June 2014, a secondary news service, ''STV Glasgow News'', was launched as part of the local television channel STV Glasgow. This was followed by the launch of a news service for STV Edinburgh
STV Edinburgh was a British local television channel based in Edinburgh which launched on 12 January 2015. It was owned and operated by STV Group plc in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University. The channel was closed on Sunday 23 April 2 ...
on Monday 12 January.
Both channels were merged with new local TV services for Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee in April 2017 to form STV2, providing national news bulletins throughout the day with half-hour programmes at 1pm and 10pm on weekdays.
In September 2016, STV announced it would launch a news programme combining Scottish, UK and international news coverage. ''STV News Tonight'' was produced and broadcast from Glasgow using STV's resources from across Scotland and the UK and international resources of ITN. The half-hour programme, launched on Monday 24 April 2017, was presented by Halla Mohieddeen and aired each weeknight at 7pm on STV2.
Cutbacks
On 16 May 2018, STV announced 59 redundancies, including 34 from its news division. 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 †...
ceased broadcasting at the end of June 2018, marking the end of ''STV News Tonight'' and the station's national news service.
On STV itself, the Edinburgh-based edition of ''STV News at Six'' was axed and replaced with shorter opt-outs within a Central Scotland programme. STV North's regional news services were not affected, although nine jobs – three journalists and six technical posts – were lost at the company's Aberdeen studios.
NUJ members at STV voted in favour of strike action against the job cuts, although the union decided against immediate action after the company ruled out compulsory redundancies.NUJ eases off strike threat after STV pledges to avoid compulsory redundancies as it looks to cut staff
Press Gazette, 19 June 2018
The last edition of ''STV News Tonight'' aired on Friday 29 June 2018, followed by the final East edition of ''STV News at Six'' on Friday 7 September 2018.
The team
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