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STV News is a Scottish news division produced by STV. The news department produces two regional services covering STV's Channel 3 franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland.
STV News programmes are produced from studios in Glasgow and Aberdeen with reporters also based at newsrooms in Edinburgh, 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, the showbiz magazine show What's On Scotland, along with feature documentaries.
The main evening programmes are supplemented by shorter STV News bulletins seven days a week:
In the Central region, STV News at Six is presented from STV's Glasgow studio. The programme includes short opt-outs for separate news and weather for the East and West of the region.
In the North, viewers in Tayside and northeast Fife receive a five-minute opt-out during the main STV News at Six each weeknight. While the Tayside opt is broadcast, viewers further north see more news from the north-east, Highlands and Islands - the programme is 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. The STV News at Six is also available for catch-up for 1 day after broadcast on the STV Player streaming service.
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, with the presenter based in the main studio in Glasgow. Meanwhile, STV News East covered the area from Anstruther to Dunbar 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.
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.
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, co-anchored from the Glasgow and Edinburgh studios. Union to ballot over industrial action as almost 60 journalism jobs set to go, Hold the Front Page, 17 May 2018 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.
Further changes in October 2024 saw the Central Scotland programme revert to a single-anchor format from Glasgow and the closure of the Edinburgh studio, with the East opt-outs now pre-recorded. The North edition follows a similar pattern with the Tayside opt-out now pre-recorded from Aberdeen, following the end of studio production in Dundee.
STV2 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 on Monday 12 January.
Cutbacks
On 16 May 2018, STV announced 59 redundancies, including 34 from its news division. STV2 ceased broadcasting at the end of June 2018, marking the end of STV News Tonight and the station's national news service. On-air talent lead 'angry' STV staff to outdoor union meeting, BBC News, 16 May 2018
The team
Main anchors
Scotland Tonight presenter Relief presenter; What's On Scotland co-presenter Occasional lunchtime/late presenter Occasional lunchtime/late presenter STV News at Six relief presenter STV News at Six relief presenter Chief Reporter STV News at Six relief presenter Based in Edinburgh Based in Glasgow Relief Sports presenter (Central) Relief Sports presenter (Central) Relief Sports presenter (North) Glasgow Glasgow Edinburgh
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