Grampian Television
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Grampian Television, now known as stv (north) on air, is the ITV franchisee for the North of Scotland, based in Aberdeen. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands, Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife. It has been in operation since 30 September1961.
It is now owned by SMG plc, which also owns the other ITV franchise in Scotland, Scottish Television (now known as stv (central) on-air), based in Glasgow. Grampian's regional news bulletin for the Highlands and Islands is called North Tonight. Presenters of this programme have included Selina Scott and Anne MacKenzie.
Grampian TV also produces TV programmes in Gaelic, from its studios in Stornoway. These include Telefios, a five-minute evening news bulletin shown at six o'clock before North Tonight, but which was dropped at the end of 2000.
More recent Grampian TV programmes include the popular Beyond Explanation, presented by Dundonian actor Brian Cox, which looked at mysterious sightings across Scotland over the last few centuries. Also produced by Grampian TV is the Scottish crime show Unsolved: Getting Away With Murder, which covered past unsolved criminal cases in Scotland; it was shown across Scotland and drew high viewing figures, while increasing the number of calls made to the police by witnesses of various events who had seen the show.
Lesser Grampian TV shows include Where's Your Head At?, a low-budget production which interviewed a selection of people about seemingly irrelevent issues, but did not gain high ratings.
Both Grampian TV and Scottish Television, together with their counterpart UTV in Northern Ireland, have resisted adopting the generic ITV1 branding that is now commonplace throughout regions in England and Wales that are owned by ITV plc.
Channel changes
In March 2006, the owners of Grampian TV SMG plc announced that the Grampian TV brand would be removed from the air and renamed, along with Scottish TV, as simply 'stv', with a new logo comprising a large, sylised letter 'S'. It was also announced that no jobs would be lost, as a result of the rebranding. The two regional news programmes, North Tonight (Grampian TV) and Scotland Today (Scottish TV) are still broadcast in the regions after the "stv" rebranding, which occurred on May 30 2006.The decision to rebrand Grampian has been met with much criticism from across the North of Scotland. This move is similar to the ITV plc-owned licences in England and Wales, where all of the regions are all branded as ITV1.
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