STV may refer to:

Television

Satellite television Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna comm ...

** Direct-broadcast satellite television (DBSTV)

Channels and stations

* STV (TV channel), the brand name of ITV broadcasters in central and northern Scotland **

Scottish Television Scottish Television (now, legally, known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV network franchisee for Central Scotland. The channel — the largest of the three ITV franchises in Scotland — has been in operation since 31 August 1957 and is the ...

, now legally known as STV Central Ltd and part of the STV network **

Grampian Television Grampian Television was the original name of the Channel 3 service for the north of Scotland founded in 1961 and now named STV. The northern region's coverage area includes the Northern Isles, Western Isles, Highlands (except Fort William and ...

, now legally known as STV North Ltd and part of the STV network *

Shanghai Television Shanghai Television () is a TV station based in Shanghai, China. It was founded in early 1980s. Its old web site address was www.stv.sh.cn. In 2001, it was merged with Radio Shanghai, Eastern Radio Shanghai, Oriental Television Station and Shanghai ...

, a TV station in Shanghai, China * STV (TV station), a TV station in Mildura, Victoria, Australia * STV AS, Estonian television and Internet company * Samanyolu TV, based in Istanbul, Turkey * Sapporo Television Broadcasting, a TV station in Hokkaidō, Japan and its associated radio station * Saskatchewan Television, the former on-air brand of CFRE-DT Regina and Saskatoon *

Slovenská televízia Slovenská televízia (; "Slovak Television"; STV) was a state-owned public television organisation in Slovakia. It was created in 1991 as the Slovak part of the former Czechoslovak Television and was headquartered in Bratislava. It was funded f ...

, a Slovak public television network * Social TV (Philippines), a TV channel operated by UNTV (Philippines) * Sunda TV (now Kompas TV Jawa Barat), an Indonesian television station based in Bandung * Multi-Choice TV, formerly known as Subscription Television (STV) *

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

Student Television

Entertainment

* Straight to video, a movie which was never released in theatres *

Sega Titan Video Sega is a video game developer, publisher, and hardware development company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with multiple offices around the world. The company's involvement in the arcade game industry began as a Japan-based distributor of coin-o ...

(ST-V), an arcade system board used by Sega in the mid-1990s

Transport

* Single-track vehicle, a vehicle that leaves a single ground track as it moves forward * STV, the MRT station abbreviation for Stevens MRT station, Singapore *

Surat Airport Surat Airport is a customs airport serving Surat and Southern Gujarat. It is located in Magdalla, situated 12 km (6.4 mi) from the city centre. It has a total area of 770 acres (312 ha), and is the second busiest airport in Gujarat after Ah ...

, India, by IATA code

Politics

Single transferable vote Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...

, a system where a voter specifies their order of preference of the candidates, and those preferences are used to transfer votes that were originally given to candidates who are eliminated during the count *

Straight-ticket voting In American politics, straight-ticket voting or straight-party voting refers to the practice of voting for every candidate that a political party has on a general election ballot. The term can also refer to a straight-ticket voting option, some ...

, the practice of voting for every candidate that a political party has on a general election ballot, or a mechanism which enables voters to vote for that party's candidates in multiple simultaneous elections

Other uses

* STV Group, a media holding company based in Glasgow, Scotland *

STV Inc. STV Incorporated is a multinational professional services company that specializes in architecture, engineering, construction management, and planning, along with building and facilities services, transportation, energy, and infrastructure mark ...

, an American civil engineering firm *

STV Horst-Emscher STV Horst-Emscher was a German association football club from the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club's greatest success has been to qualify for the 1950 German football championship, where it was knocked out by SpVgg Fürt ...

, a defunct German association football club *

St V Saint V is the commonly used name for a holiday for freethinking university students in Brussels, Belgium, celebrating the founding of the Free University of Brussels. The day's long form (french: Saint-Verhaegen, nl, Sint-Verhaegen) differs in ...

, holiday celebrating the founding of the Free University in Brussels, Belgium * Subjective theory of value, an economic theory *

Ship prefix A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/n ...