Scottish Television

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Scottish Television, now known as stv (central) on air, is Scotland's largest independent television franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August, 1957. The studios are currently located on Renfield Street in Cowcaddens, Glasgow, but will soon be moved to new studios in Pacific Quay, alongside BBC Scotland and the Glasgow Science Centre. The channel is now owned by SMG plc, which also owns Scotland's other independent television francisee, Grampian Television, based in Aberdeen.

Scottish TV produces news, current affairs, politics and sports programmes (in both English and Gaelic) for its transmission region, as well as for the whole of Scotland. Scottish TV's main news programme is Scotland Today, and the main sports show is Scotsport, the world's longest running sports television programme. Along with Grampian Television, Scottish TV is the main rival to the publicly-funded national broadcaster, BBC Scotland.

Channel changes

On 2 March 2006, it was announced by SMG plc that later this year Scottish Television will revert to using its former brand name of 'stv', which it previously used from the start of colour broadcasting in 1969 until 30 August 1985, and which the station is still informally known as in parts of Scotland. At the same time, Grampian TV will also become known as stv, so one identity will serve the two SMG Licences. It was announced that no jobs will be lost. The two regional news programmes, Scotland Today (Scottish TV) and North Tonight (Grampian TV), both still broadcast in the regions after the rebranding, which was launched on 30 May 2006.

Image:Scot1.jpg|The Scottish Television ident, introduced in 1964. The very first one, unfortunately, was destroyed in a fire at the STV studios in Glasgow on November 2nd 1969. Image:Scot2.jpg|STV ident, introduced in December 1969 with many modifications afterwards. Image:Scot3.jpg|The Scottish Television thistle, introduced in 1985 with many variants afterwards. Image:Scot4.jpg|An example of a Scottish TV ident, introduced in 2000. Image:Scottish TV Ident.jpg|This look launched in 2003 to bring the station in line with the ITV1 look from 2002 featuring around 60 celebrities.

See also

• stv
• Scotland Today
• Scotsport
• Politics Now
• Sunday Live
• Talking Scotland
• S2
• Sky Scottish

External links

• [stv.tv]
• [Scottish TV at TV Ark]

ITV British television | Channels

Regions North Scotland: Grampian Television | Central Scotland: Scottish Television | Scottish/English Border: Border North and North West England: ABC, Granada | North East England: Tyne Tees | Yorkshire: Yorkshire | Northern Ireland: UTV Wales and the West of England: TWW, WWN, ITSWW, HTV | Midlands: ATV, ABC, Central | East Anglia: Anglia London: Rediffusion, ATV, Thames, LWT, Carlton | Southern England: Southern, TVS, Meridian South West England: Westward, TSW, Westcountry | Channel Islands: Channel Television

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