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This is a timeline of the history of the British broadcaster Scottish Television (now known as STV Central).It provides the ITV network service for Central Scotland.. The timeline also includes events for the whole of the merged STV channel covering Central and Northern Scotland after 2006.
12 January – STV launches its second local television channel with STV Edinburgh. 19 March – STV is awarded three more local licenses, to cover Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee. [38] 2016. 14 December – The final edition of Scotland 2016 airs on BBC Two Scotland. [39] It is replaced in the new year by a weekly programme called "Timeline". [40] 2017
STV Edinburgh was a British local television channel based in Edinburgh which launched on 12 January 2015. [1] [2] It was owned and operated by STV Group plc in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University. The channel was closed on Sunday 23 April 2017 and replaced by STV2, a semi-national network of local TV stations which itself closed on 1 ...
In May 2006, both channels were re-branded "STV" with newsrooms in Glasgow and Aberdeen retained to provide separate news services for their respective regions. Seven months later, STV launched news opt-outs for the East of Central Scotland (broadcast from Edinburgh) and Tayside & North East Fife (broadcast from Dundee).
Scottish Television (now, legally, known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV network franchisee for Central Scotland.The channel — the largest of the three ITV franchises in Scotland — has been in operation since 31 August 1957 and is the second-oldest franchise holder in the UK that is still active (the oldest being Granada Television).
STV were awarded local TV licences in January 2013 to operate two digital television channels in Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively, for up to 12 years. [2] STV Glasgow launched on Monday, 2 June 2014 with an expanded schedule of local news, features and entertainment programming. STV Edinburgh launched on 12 January 2015.
23 April – Local channels STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh close and are replaced by a single channel STV2 which acts as a sister channel to STV. [2] STV2 also launches in Aberdeen, Dundee and Ayr, the three areas which STV had also been awarded a local TV licence. A single networked schedule is broadcast in all five areas.
STV Edinburgh followed at 7pm on Monday 12 January 2015, launching with the first edition of The Fountainbridge Show. In March 2015, STV won three further local TV licences for the Aberdeen, Dundee and Ayr areas [ 7 ] under the working titles of Around Aberdeen , View from the Bridges and Ayrshire Today .