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STV News
GenreRegional News
Directed byWest edition:
John Mason,
Laura Trimble
East edition:
Keith Samuel,
Alasadir Murray
North edition:
Ruaraidh MacLeod,
Ian Williamson
Presented byWest edition:
John MacKay
East edition:
Laura Miller
North edition:
Norman MacLeod/
Andrea Brymer
Theme music composerPaul Leonard-Morgan[1]
Country of originScotland
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerGordon MacMillan
Production locationsWest edition:
Glasgow, Scotland
East edition:
Edinburgh, Scotland
North edition:
Aberdeen, Scotland
EditorsCentral region:
Howard Simpson
North region:
Donald John MacDonald
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeSTV News at Six:
30 minutes;
STV News:
Durations vary
Production companiesSTV Central,
STV North
Original release
NetworkSTV,
STV Edinburgh,
STV Glasgow
Release23 March 2009 (2009-03-23) –
present
Related
Scotland Tonight

STV News is a Scottish regional news service produced by STV. The news department produces four regional services covering STV's two Channel 3 franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland. Additional bulletins also air on local TV channels STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh.

STV's news programmes are produced from studios in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen with reporters also based at newsrooms 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 and online services, STV News also produces some non-news programming including current affairs (Scotland Tonight), one-off feature specials and documentaries.

On air

STV North, East and West

Three separate editions of STV News at Six air 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:

  • Good Morning Scotland (not to be confused with the BBC Radio Scotland programme of the same name) updates for the North and Central regions during Good Morning Britain at around 6:10am, 7:10am and 8:10am each weekday.
  • Lunchtime bulletins for the North and Central regions at 1:55pm each weekday.
  • Headline updates for the North, East and West regions at 8pm each weeknight (except when primetime football matches are being broadcast by STV).
  • Late news bulletins for the North, East and West regions during Scotland Tonight (on air from 10.30pm to 11pm) on Monday to Thursday; and after ITV News at Ten on Fridays.
  • Weekend bulletins, broadcast across all regions from Glasgow - one on Saturday evenings, one on Sunday evenings.

In the North, viewers in Tayside and north east Fife receive a separate 5-minute bulletin during the main STV News at Six each weeknight, 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.

Previously in the Central region,[2][3] viewers in the West and East areas received 5-minute bulletins within the main evening 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.[2][3]

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.

STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh

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.

Both channels produce their own bespoke bulletins, as well as joint bulletins throughout the day.

  • A rolling service of short updates (from the Glasgow newsroom) and text news airs from midday until 2.30pm.
  • Short 5-minute bulletins air every hour from 3pm on weekdays.
  • STV News at Eight, a pan-regional half-hour programme airs weeknights at 8pm across both STV city channels.
  • STV News at Ten, an in-depth half-hour programme airs at 10pm each weeknight, with separate editions for Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Both channels also simulcast their respective local editions of STV News at Six.

The team

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

Main anchors

STV News at Six
STV region Anchor Roles
West John MacKay Main anchor, Scotland Tonight presenter
East Laura Miller Main anchor, late bulletin presenter, STV Edinburgh News anchor
North Norman MacLeod Main anchor (Mondays, Tuesdays & alternate Wednesdays), Occasional lunchtime/late presenter
Andrea Brymer Main anchor (Alternate Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays), Occasional lunchtime/late presenter

Reporters and correspondents

Reporters and correspondents are occasionally utilised across the three STV News regions. Political journalists and weather forecasters are also shared across all three regions.

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

References

  1. ^ "Glasgow-based composer goes from STV to Limitless possibilities". STV Entertainment. STV. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  2. ^ a b ].pdf "STV confirms launch of extra news programme and more localised bulletins" (PDF). STV Group plc. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  3. ^ 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.
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