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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 and replaced by STV2, a semi-national network of local TV stations.
The channel was run in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University.
STV Glasgow launched at 6.30pm on Monday 2 June 2014, originally airing every day from midday until around midnight. The channel claimed to have reached over half a million viewers in its first month. Its sister station STV Edinburgh launched on 12 January 2015.
The channel extended its hours in March 2015, along with sister channel STV Edinburgh. The two city channels then shared the majority of programming, with most STV Glasgow productions also broadcast on its sister station.
On Monday 24 April 2017, with the launch of more STV City channels in Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee, the network of services was merged and relaunched as STV2.
Non-news productions from the Glasgow studios included the early evening show, Live at Five, STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh announce new weeknight show Live at Five, stv.tv, 26 December 2015 sports chat show Peter and Roughie's Football Show, Peter and Roughie want you to join them in the boot room on STV Glasgow, stv.tv, 29 May 2014 interview series My Life in Ten Pictures and entertainment show Grass Roots Music. In My Opinion: Paul Hughes: Looking ahead to the launch of STV Glasgow, allmediascotland, 30 May 2014
STV Glasgow also aired archived drama series including Taggart, Take the High Road and Rebus alongside the acclaimed Polish World War II drama Czas honoru ( Days of Honour) and the comedy drama series High Times. The station aimed to broadcast at least an hour a week of non-English language programming.
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