Launched 2 June 2014 Picture format 576i (16:9 SDTV) Country United Kingdom | Owned by STV Group plc Slogan "Glasgow's on the box" | |
Audience share STV City:
0.01% (September 2015 (2015-09), BARB) | ||
STV Glasgow is a local television station serving Glasgow and surrounding areas. The station is owned and operated by STV Group plc in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University.
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The channel is available on Freeview, Virgin Media and Sky in Glasgow only, and is also available outside Glasgow through STV Player or by manually tuning a Sky receiver.
History
STV were awarded local TV licences in January 2013 to operate two digital television channels, under the working titles of GTV and ETV, in Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively, for up to 12 years. Three other bids were made for the licence by Glasgow TV, Made in Glasgow and Metro8 Glasgow.
The channel is run in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University.
STV Glasgow launched at 6.30pm on Monday 2 June 2014, originally airing every day from midday until around midnight. Its sister station STV Edinburgh launched on 12 January 2015.
The channel extended its hours in March 2015, along with sister channel STV Edinburgh. The two city channels now share the majority of programming, with most STV Glasgow productions also broadcast on its sister station.
In early 2017, with the launch of more STV City channels in Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee, the network of services will be rebranded as "STV2".
Presenters
John MacKay - STV News & Scotland Tonight
Kelly Ann-Woodland - STV News
Sean Batty - STV Weather
David Farrell - Live at Five
Hayley Matthews - Live at Five & E on STV
Jennifer Reoch - Live at Five & Glasgow's City Safari
Laura Boyd - E on STV
Gerry Cassidy - E on STV
Ewan Cameron - The Late Show
Rona Dougall - Scotland Tonight
Alan Rough - Peter & Roughie's Football Show
Peter Martin - Peter & Roughie's Football Show
Programming
STV Glasgow airs a locally focused schedule of new, archived and imported programming, including daily magazine shows, an expanded STV News service, features, former STV programmes, documentaries and drama.
STV News airs an in-depth STV News at Eight each weeknight, alongside short bulletins throughout the day, a simulcast of STV News at Six and a pan-regional STV News at Ten, which also airs on STV Edinburgh.
Key non-news productions from the Glasgow studios include the early evening show, Live at Five, sports chat show Peter and Roughie's Football Show, interview series My Life in Ten Pictures and entertainment show Grass Roots Music.
STV Glasgow also airs archived drama series including Taggart, Take the High Road and Rebus alongside the acclaimed Polish World War II drama Czas honoru (Days of Honour) and the comedy drama series High Times. The station aims to broadcast at least an hour a week of non-English language programming.
STV News Tonight
In September 2016, it was announced that STV is to launch a news programme bringing together Scottish, UK and international news coverage for the first time. "STV News Tonight" will be produced and broadcast from Glasgow using STV's resources from across Scotland and ITV's international and UK news resources. It is the first time all news coverage relevant to Scottish viewers - from Scottish to UK and international - has been brought together in a single programme each week night.
STV News Tonight will be the flagship news programme on STV's expanding city network. In addition to Glasgow and Edinburgh, three new licences - Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee - will be added in early 2017 and the network of services rebranded as "STV2". The 30-minute programme, presented by Halla Mohieddeen, will air on every week night at 7pm on STV2 and streamed live on the STV Player.
The Riverside Show & Live at Five
When the channel launched in 2014, The Riverside Show launched with it, David Farrell & Jennifer Reoch hosted the show live from STV Headquarters in Glasgow. After 12 months of airing in 2015, the show was axed as was the STV Edinburgh programme, The Fountainbridge Show. Instead, Farrell, Reoch and Haley Matthews began hosting, Live at Five across both channels.
The Late Show
In Late 2015, the channel launched a new late-night talk show. The Late Show, hosted by Clyde 1 presenter Ewen Cameron. The show airs at 10:30pm every weeknight, Monday-Thursday shows are live with the Friday edition being a best bits of the week special.