STV News at Six
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STV News at Six is a Scottish regional news programme, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by STV Central
Scottish Television
Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...

 (formerly Scottish Television) in the Central region and STV North
Grampian Television
Grampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife...

 (formerly Grampian Television) in the Northern region.

The programmes were launched on Monday 23 March 2009, replacing Scotland Today
Scotland Today
Scotland Today was a Scottish regional news programme covering Central Scotland, produced by STV Central . Despite its name suggesting a national remit, the programme was actually limited to stories around STV's Central Belt franchise...

in Central Scotland and North Tonight
North Tonight
North Tonight was a Scottish nightly regional news programme covering the North of Scotland, produced by STV North .-History:North Tonight began on 7 January 1980 with presenters John Duncanson and Selina Scott...

in Northern Scotland. As of Monday 23 May 2011, three separate editions of STV News at Six are produced each weekday for the East & West of the Central region and for the entire North region (including an opt-out service for Tayside and North East Fife).

The three programmes are produced from studios in Glasgow (West edition), Edinburgh (East edition) and Aberdeen (North edition) with reporters also based at studios in Dundee & 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, STV News also produces some non-news programming including current affairs (Scotland Tonight
Scotland Tonight
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...

), sport (STV Rugby
STV Rugby
STV Rugby is a Scottish regional television programme featuring highlights of RaboDirect Pro12 rugby matches involving Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors...

) and one-off feature specials & documentaries.

On air

STV News at Six airs on STV Central (West & East) and STV North each weeknight at 6:00pm.

The main evening programmes are supplemented by shorter STV News bulletins seven days a week. On weekdays, the lunchtime bulletin follows on from the ITV News at 1:30, giving a six minute round-up of the days developments at 1:55pm. The late night bulletin is incorporated into Scotland Tonight
Scotland Tonight
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...

on Monday - Thursday nights at 10:30pm with a separate bulletin also airing on Friday after the ITV News at Ten. STV News also airs short early evening bulletins on Saturdays and Sundays. Short bulletins taken from the main 6pm programme also air on Tuesday - Saturday mornings during The Nightshift
The Nightshift
The Nightshift is an overnight regional television programme broadcast on STV in Northern and Central Scotland.The service, broadcast live from STV's transmission control centre at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, features highlights of archived STV programmes, STV News & ITV News bulletins, showbiz news...

.

Lunchtime and weekend bulletins in the Central region are broadcast across both the West and East sub-regions while the North region receives its own lunchtime, late night and weekend bulletins. All 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
Stv.tv
www.stv.tv is the URL of the website of the Scottish television channel, STV. The website currently offers the usual sections of News, Sport, Entertainment, Weather, Competitions, Forums and STV programme information, with TV listings...

 website.

STV News bulletins are not transmitted during Daybreak
Daybreak (ITV)
Daybreak is the weekday breakfast television programme on the British commercial ITV network that broadcasts on weekday mornings from 06:00 to 08:30 and is currently presented by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley from Monday to Thursday with Dan Lobb and Kate Garraway on Fridays...

(ITV Breakfast
ITV Breakfast
ITV Breakfast Limited is the national ITV breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom...

) - separate Daybreak Scotland
Daybreak Scotland
Daybreak Scotland is the regional news strand for the two ITV regions in northern and central Scotland, provided for the ITV breakfast station ITV Breakfast...

bulletins for viewers in Northern and Central Scotland are provided by Macmillan Media
Macmillan Media
Macmillan Media is a multimedia company covering the UK and Ireland working in Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester and London, and is owned by British journalist Michael Macmillan.-Daybreak Regional News:...

.

On 25 August 2011, STV announced plans to introduce a 30-minute current affairs programme, Scotland Tonight
Scotland Tonight
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...

, on Monday - Thursday nights at 10:30pm. The pan-regional programme, incorporating late news bulletins for STV's North, West and East regions, began on Monday 24 October 2011, and is presented on alternate nights by John MacKay
John MacKay (journalist)
John MacKay is a Scottish broadcast journalist, television presenter and producer, who is currently the chief anchor for the West Central Scotland edition of STV News at Six and a presenter for current affairs programme Scotland Tonight....

 and Rona Dougall.

Sub-regional bulletins

On 8 January 2007, the former Scotland Today and North Tonight programmes launched sub-regional news bulletins.

In the North, viewers in the Dundee
Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...

, Angus
Angus
Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...

, Perthshire
Perthshire
Perthshire, officially the County of Perth , is a registration county in central Scotland. It extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south...

 and north-east Fife
Fife
Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...

 area receive a 5-minute STV News Tayside bulletin, within the main 6pm programme - presented & produced from STV's studios at Seabraes in Dundee
Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...

 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
Highlands and Islands
The Highlands and Islands of Scotland are broadly the Scottish Highlands plus Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides.The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 applied...

 areas in STV News North, broadcast from the main studio in Aberdeen. Separate weather forecasts for both areas are also broadcast after the ITV News at Ten on weeknights.

Previously in the Central region, viewers in both the West and East areas received 5-minute bulletins within the main 6pm programme - STV News West covered the area from Tobermory to Falkirk
Falkirk
Falkirk is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies in the Forth Valley, almost midway between the two most populous cities of Scotland; north-west of Edinburgh and north-east of Glasgow....

, with the presenter based in the main studio in Glasgow. Meanwhile, STV News East covered the area from Anstruther
Anstruther
Anstruther is a small town in Fife, Scotland. The two halves of Anstruther are divided by a small stream called Dreel Burn. Anstruther lies 9 miles south-southeast of St Andrews. It is the largest community on the stretch of north-shore coastline of the Firth of Forth known as the East Neuk,...

 to Dunbar
Dunbar
Dunbar is a town in East Lothian on the southeast coast of Scotland, approximately 28 miles east of Edinburgh and 28 miles from the English Border at Berwick-upon-Tweed....

 and was presented and produced at STV's Edinburgh studios.

On 18 January 2011, STV announced plans to split the Central Scotland edition of STV News at Six into two full-length programmes for the East and West sub-regions, presented and produced locally. The new programme was due to launch on Monday 16 May 2011 but was later delayed until Monday 23 May 2011. Initially launched as a six-month pilot, the East service was made permanent in October 2011. The two programmes are supplemented by separate late night bulletins.

STV News Review

STV News Review, a short weekly programme reviewing the week's main stories on both STV News services is broadcast directly after the Sunday evening bulletin, signed for the deaf and hard of hearing by on-screen BSL
British Sign Language
British Sign Language is the sign language used in the United Kingdom , and is the first or preferred language of some deaf people in the UK; there are 125,000 deaf adults in the UK who use BSL plus an estimated 20,000 children. The language makes use of space and involves movement of the hands,...

 interpreters.

In the Central region, the programme is signed by Morag Donnelly and Avril Hepner (on a rotating basis). The programme is produced by one of the production journalists in the Glasgow newsroom.

In the North region, the programme is signed by either Bert Smale, John Gill or Elaine Campbell from the Aberdeen Deaf Society. The programme is narrated and produced on most weeks by Andrea Brymer.

Main anchors

West edition
  • John MacKay
    John MacKay (journalist)
    John MacKay is a Scottish broadcast journalist, television presenter and producer, who is currently the chief anchor for the West Central Scotland edition of STV News at Six and a presenter for current affairs programme Scotland Tonight....



East edition
  • Juliet Dunlop
    Juliet Dunlop
    Juliet Dunlop is a British television journalist and newsreader working for STV in East Central Scotland. She previously appeared as a presenter for the BBC, appearing on the BBC News channel, BBC World News and BBC One daytime updates.-Career:...



North edition
  • Norman Macleod
    Norman Macleod (journalist)
    Norman Macleod is a STV North news presenter and journalist for the Northern Scotland edition of STV News at Six.A Gaelic-speaker from the Outer Hebrides, Macleod worked part-time at two BBC local radio stations, one in Stornoway and the other in Aberdeen, whilst at college...

     (Monday - Tuesday, alternate Wednesday)
  • Andrea Brymer (Alternate Wednesday, Thursday - Friday)

Reporters/Correspondents





Online video blogs

The Real MacKay is a supplementary video blog for the West Central Scotland edition. The blog is presented and produced by John MacKay
John MacKay (journalist)
John MacKay is a Scottish broadcast journalist, television presenter and producer, who is currently the chief anchor for the West Central Scotland edition of STV News at Six and a presenter for current affairs programme Scotland Tonight....

, with new episodes produced on a regular basis from STV's headquarters at Pacific Quay
Pacific Quay
Pacific Quay is an area south of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. It is located at the former Plantation Quay and Princes' Dock Basin. The Princes' Dock Basin was the largest on the River Clyde when it was opened in 1900. It ceased to be used in the 1970s as the volume of Shipping using the...

 in Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

. The first blog was produced on , and as of , 593 episodes have been made available.

The Real MacKay takes a mostly light-hearted daily look behind-the-scenes at the Central edition of STV News at Six and includes interviews with reporters & production staff. Occasionally, the blog is presented by other STV News staff including Gordon Chree
Gordon Chree
Gordon Chree is a Scottish broadcast journalist, currently working for STV News in Central Scotland.Alongside reporting duties, Chree is also an occasional news bulletin presenter, has been a producer of Scotland Today & STV News bulletins and has presented & produced the online video blog Not The...

 and Karen Greenshields
Karen Greenshields
Karen Greenshields is a reporter for STV News in Central Scotland.Before joining STV as a researcher in 1995, Greenshields lived overseas for many years, including 12 months in Brazil, and had various stints as a researcher with independent production companies...

. Former Scotland Today anchor Stephen Jardine
Stephen Jardine
Stephen Jardine is a Scottish journalist and presenter. He has worked for Scottish Television, GMTV and Radio Tay. He now runs Scotland's first dedicated food and drink communications consultancy, Taste Communications.-Early years:...

 was also a regular presenter of Not the Real MacKay blogs. A spin-off series, White Not MacKay was produced from January 2008 to May 2009 and presented by former STV News presenter Louise White.

A video blog for the Northern Scotland edition, Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure (video blog)
Northern Exposure was a supplementary video blog for the Northern Scotland edition of the regional news programme, STV News at Six. The first blog was produced on Tuesday June 19, 2007 and as of June 30, 2009, 180 episodes had been made available...

, was presented and produced by Norman Macleod
Norman Macleod (journalist)
Norman Macleod is a STV North news presenter and journalist for the Northern Scotland edition of STV News at Six.A Gaelic-speaker from the Outer Hebrides, Macleod worked part-time at two BBC local radio stations, one in Stornoway and the other in Aberdeen, whilst at college...

, Andrea Brymer, Kirstin Gove, Chris Harvey
Chris Harvey
Chris Harvey is a news presenter, journalist and producer for STV News at Six and STV Sports Centre in northern Scotland.Born in Inverurie, his mother and father were a speech therapist and a Northern College lecturer respectively. He attended Wormit Primary School & Madras College in St...

 and Louise Steel
Louise Steel
Louise Steel is a Scottish broadcaster.Originally from Aberdeen, Steel has worked on several television programmes including BBC Scotland's The Saturday Show and STV's Club Cupid...

 from STV North's studios in West Tullos, Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....

between 19th June 2007 and 30th June 2009.

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