Scotland Tonight

Scotland Tonight
Genre	News, current affairs
Directed by	John Mason Laura Trimble
Presented by	John MacKay (Mon/Tues), Rona Dougall (Wed/Thurs)
Theme music composer	Rage Music
Country of origin	Scotland
No. of episodes	279 (as of 9 May 2013) 2 specials (14 June 2012 and 15 October 2012 )
Production
Executive producer(s)	Howard Simpson
Producer(s)	Carole Erskine Stephen Townsend
Location(s)	Glasgow/Edinburgh/Aberdeen
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	STV News
Broadcast
Original channel	STV
Picture format	576i (SDTV 16:9)
Original run	October 24, 2011 (2011-10-24) – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Politics Now (Thursdays)
Related shows	STV News at Six
External links
Website

Scotland Tonight is a Scottish news and current affairs programme, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by STV News. The programme is presented by STV News at Six West anchor John MacKay on Mondays & Tuesdays and former Sky News Scotland correspondent Rona Dougall on Wednesdays & Thursday.

The half-hour programme, which launched on Monday 24 October 2011, airs at 10:30pm on Monday - Thursday nights and features reports, interviews & analysis on the Scottish national news of the day alongside coverage of politics, business, sport and the arts & entertainment.

Scotland Tonight is broadcast across both STV regions (North & Central) and incorporates late news bulletins for Glasgow & West Central Scotland, Edinburgh, the Lothians & Fife and the STV North region. Separate late bulletins for the three regions also air after ITV News at Ten on Friday nights. The programme is broadcast from studio 1 at STV's Glasgow studios, shared with the West edition of STV News at Six.

External links

• Scotland Tonight at stv.tv
• Scotland Tonight on Facebook
• Scotland Tonight on Twitter
• Scotland Tonight show on YouTube