STV News at Six

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STV News at Six
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Also known as STV News,
STV News Review
Genre Regional News
Directed by West edition:
John Mason,
Laura Trimble
East edition:
Keith Samuel,
Alasadir Murray
North edition:
Ruaraidh MacLeod,
Ian Williamson
Presented by West edition:
John MacKay
East edition:
Juliet Dunlop
North edition:
Norman Macleod/
Andrea Brymer
Theme music composer Paul Leonard-Morgan[1]
Country of origin Scotland, United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) Gordon McMillan
Editor(s) Central region:
Howard Simpson
North region:
Donald John McDonald
Location(s) West edition:
Glasgow, Scotland
East edition:
Edinburgh, Scotland
North edition:
Aberdeen, Scotland
Running time STV News at Six:
30 minutes;
STV News:
Durations vary
Production company(s) STV Central,
STV North
Broadcast
Original channel STV
Picture format 576i (SDTV 16:9)
Original run 23 March 2009 (2009-03-23) – present
Chronology
Preceded by Scotland Today
(Central);
North Tonight
(North)
Related shows Scotland Tonight
External links
Website

STV News at Six is a Scottish regional news programme, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by STV Central (formerly Scottish Television) in the Central region and STV North (formerly Grampian Television) in the Northern region.

The programmes were launched on 23 March 2009, replacing Scotland Today in Central Scotland and North Tonight in Northern Scotland. As of 23 May 2011, three separate editions of STV News at Six are produced each weekday for the East and West of the Central region and for the entire North region (including an opt-out service for Tayside and North East Fife).

The three programmes are produced from studios in Glasgow (West edition), Edinburgh (East edition) and Aberdeen (North edition) with reporters also based at studios in 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, STV News also produces some non-news programming including current affairs (Scotland Tonight), sport (STV Rugby) and one-off feature specials and documentaries.

Contents

On air[edit]

STV News at Six airs on STV Central (West and East) and STV North each weeknight at 6pm.

The main evening programmes are supplemented by shorter STV News bulletins seven days a week. On weekdays, three 2-minute bulletins are broadcast during Daybreak with the lunchtime bulletin at 1:55pm, giving a six minute round-up of the days developments. At around 8pm, there is a 1-minute round-up of the day's headlines. The late night bulletin is incorporated into Scotland Tonight on Monday - Thursday nights at 10:30pm, with a separate bulletin also airing on Friday after the ITV News at Ten. STV News also airs short early evening bulletins on Saturdays and Sundays. Short bulletins taken from the main 6pm programme also air during The Nightshift.

On weekdays, the lunchtime bulletins in the Central region are broadcast across both the West and East sub-regions while the North region receives its own lunchtime and late night bulletins. The weekend bulletins are broadcast across both the North and Central regions from Glasgow. All North, East and pan-Scottish bulletins are broadcast one hour after their original airing on STV+1. Bulletins are also available for catch-up, 30 days after broadcast on the STV News website.

On 25 August 2011, STV announced plans to introduce a 30-minute current affairs programme, Scotland Tonight, on Monday - Thursday nights at 10:30pm. The pan-regional programme, incorporating late news bulletins for STV's North, West and East regions, began on 24 October 2011, and is presented on alternate nights by John MacKay and Rona Dougall.[2]

On 15 April 2013, STV launched a new, 1-minute local bulletin, broadcasting every weeknight at around 8pm, with separate bulletins from the North, West and East regions. The updates are presented by the late newsreader that night.[3]

Sub-regional bulletins[edit]

On 8 January 2007, the former Scotland Today and North Tonight programmes launched sub-regional news bulletins.

In the North, viewers in the Dundee, Angus, Perthshire and north-east Fife area receive a 5-minute bulletin, within the main 18:00 programme - presented and produced from STV's studios at Seabraes in Dundee and directed from a technical gallery in Aberdeen. While the Tayside bulletin is broadcast, viewers further north see more news from the north-east, Highlands and Islands, broadcast from the main studio in Aberdeen. Separate weather forecasts for both areas are also broadcast after the ITV News at Ten on weeknights.

Previously in the Central region,[4][5] viewers in both the West and East areas received 5-minute bulletins within the main 18:00 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.

On 18 January 2011, STV announced plans to split the Central Scotland edition of STV News at Six into two full-length programmes for the East and West sub-regions, presented and produced locally.[4] The new programme was due to launch on 16 May 2011[6] but was later delayed until 23 May 2011. Initially launched as a six-month pilot, the East service was made permanent in October 2011.[7] The two programmes are supplemented by separate late night bulletins.[5]

STV News Review[edit]

STV News Review, a short weekly programme reviewing the week's main stories on both STV News services is broadcast directly after the Sunday evening bulletin, signed for the deaf and hard of hearing by on-screen BSL interpreters.

In the Central region, the programme is signed by Morag Donnelly and Avril Hepner (on a rotating basis) and produced by one of the production journalists in the Glasgow newsroom. In the North region, the programme is signed by a rotating team of interpreters from the Aberdeen Deaf Society. The programme is narrated and produced by either Norman Macleod or Andrea Brymer.

The team[edit]

Currently, the STV News on-air team consists of the following:

Main anchors[edit]

West edition

East edition

North edition

  • Norman Macleod (Monday - Tuesday, alternate Wednesday)
  • Andrea Brymer (Alternate Wednesday, Thursday - Friday)

Reporters/correspondents[edit]

Camera operators[edit]

East

  • Matt Donnelly
  • Steve Kydd
  • Colin Maclean
  • Iain Maclean

North

  • Pat Duffy
  • Peter Steele
  • Palvinder Jagpal
  • Alistair Macpherson
  • Alistair Watt

West

  • Ross Leary
  • Danny Livingston
  • Neil Maclaren
  • Jennifer Wilson

The studios in which the news broadcasts from in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen are fully automated, the cameras are controlled from the gallery, the only people in the studio are the presenters.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Glasgow-based composer goes from STV to Limitless possibilities". STV Entertainment (STV). 5 April 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011. 
  2. ^ "Scotland Tonight: STV launches new nightly news and current affairs programme". STV News. 25 August 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2011. 
  3. ^ "STV increases regional news bulletins". STV Group plc. 8 April 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2013. 
  4. ^ a b [final].pdf "STV confirms launch of extra news programme and more localised bulletins"]. STV Group plc. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011. 
  5. ^ a b "Here is the news from Edinburgh: STV to produce UK’s most local news service". STV News. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011. 
  6. ^ "May 16 Launch for STV News Pilot for Edinburgh". All Media Scotland. 20 April 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2011. 
  7. ^ "STV News - the most comprehensive local news service in the UK". STV Group plc. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011. 

External links[edit]

ITV News (Nations & Regions)
ITV News nation/regions
Non ITV plc nations
Former programmes
Related
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