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STV previously known as Scottish Television, is a television channel in Scotland. It operates the two ITV licensees in northern and central Scotland, formerly known as Grampian Television (now legally STV North) and Scottish Television (now legally STV Central). The brand was adopted on Tuesday 30 May 2006 replacing both franchises' identities. In 2013, STV won licences to launch local TV channels in Glasgow and Edinburgh. STV Glasgow launched on 2 June 2014, with STV Edinburgh following on 12 January 2015. ==Programming== The two licences still produce regional programmes, although the only difference between them is the respective news programmes: ''STV News at Six'' and ''STV News'' broadcast separate bulletins to Northern Scotland (including an opt-out for the Tayside area), Glasgow & West Central Scotland, and Edinburgh & East Central Scotland. There is no STV South as Southern Scotland is part of the ITV Border region (Border being owned by ITV plc) and programmes are presented there under the ITV Border brand. Emphasising the fact that STV is essentially one channel across the two regions, there is a single director of channels (Bobby Hain - former managing director of Scottish Television), and a single head of news (Gordon MacMillan - former head of news of Scottish TV). Terms in the renewed licences for both STV Central and STV North also mean that regional non-news programmes are shared (and identically scheduled) across both licences. Although the stations are only required to produce 1.5 hours a week of regional non-news programmes (a single arrangement covering both North and Central regions), the chief executive of STV Group plc, the stations have long aimed to deliver more output.〔(Westminster speech by Rob Woodward ), stvplc.tv, 16 October 2008〕 Today, news and current affairs forms the bulk of STV's regular programming on Channel 3, which includes the topical analysis programme ''Scotland Tonight''. The company also produces many Gaelic programmes, some of which are now produced for the Scots Gaelic-language channel, BBC Alba, alongside archive material including ''Speaking our Language'' and ''Machair''. On a network scale, one of STV's most famous exports is the long-running crime drama ''Taggart'', set in Glasgow. The network's range of programmes was dramatically expanded during the 1990s under director Alistair Moffat. Previous TV programming includes the serial dramas ''Take the High Road'', ''Garnock Way'' & ''High Living'', gameshows ''Now You See It'' and ''Wheel of Fortune'', crime series ''Crimedesk'' with Bill Knox, long-running documentary series ''Weir's Way'', lifestyle show ''Room at the Top'', and ''Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade'', which lasted 26 years. Another of the station's best-known programmes, ''Scotsport'', ran continuously for 51 years until May 2008 and remains one of the world's longest-running television sports programmes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「STV (TV channel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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