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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 Central anchor John MacKay on Mondays & Tuesdays and former Sky News Scotland correspondent Rona Dougall on Wednesdays & Thursday. [1]
She then went on to become Scotland Correspondent at Sky News for over fifteen years, before being made redundant in 2011. Three weeks after being made redundant from Sky, STV bosses offered Dougall a job as a co-anchor on the soon-to-be launched Scotland Tonight , after she spotted a post on the Facebook page of STV News anchor John MacKay .
STV News Tonight was produced and broadcast from Glasgow using STV's resources from across Scotland and the UK and international resources of ITN. [6] The half-hour programme, launched on Monday 24 April 2017, was presented by Halla Mohieddeen and aired each weeknight at 7 pm on STV2.
1 January – Seeing in the New Year: BBC Scotland's Hogmanay will be hosted by Amy Irons and Des Clarke and others, with most of the show pre-recorded. [1] STV's Bringing in the Bells will be hosted by Seán Batty, Laura Boyd, Jean Johansson, Grado and others.
John MacKay (born 13 September 1966) [1] [2] is a Scottish broadcast journalist, television presenter, producer and writer. He currently is a main anchor for the STV News at Six in Central Scotland and the current affairs programme Scotland Tonight.
STV (stylised as stv) is a free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the STV Group.It is made up of the Central Scotland and Northern Scotland ITV public broadcaster licences, formerly known as Scottish Television (now legally STV Central Ltd) and Grampian Television (now legally STV North Ltd) respectively.
On 8 January 2007, Scotland Today launched a sub-regional news service, allowing viewers in the west and the east of central Scotland to receive a dedicated bulletin within the main 6pm programme. In the west, the programme covered from Tobermory to Falkirk, with the presenter based in the main Scotland Today studio in Glasgow.
3 February – Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon interviews Sidse Babett Knudsen, the star of Danish political television drama Borgen for Scotland Tonight ahead of a screening of the second series finale at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. The interview is broadcast by STV the following evening. [6] [7]