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(January 2011)

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Gary McEwan
Parts of South Perthshire is also spilt between North and Central. Gilmerton in Perthshire (not the one in Edinburgh) only has 3 residential streets. One street gets STV North and other street gets STV Central.

Also as well Crieff is spilt between North and Central depending on where you stay in the town.
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thegeek Founding member
I seem to recall North Berwick and the surrounding area used to be a little Grampian exclave. Did that get sorted with DSO?
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Markymark
I seem to recall North Berwick and the surrounding area used to be a little Grampian exclave. Did that get sorted with DSO?


Probably not. Screened off from Craigkelly (and Black Hill) but easily served by Angus, I suspect those in the area
will still be receiving the 'wrong' version of STV. Plenty of other pockets like that in the UK, it's places where the postcode mapping on Sky and Freesat comes into its own to sort the anaomolies.

We often stay in a b&b near Bridport, but it can't 'see' either the local relay, or Stockland Hill, but receives a stonking signal through a gap in the hills from Mendip, and therefore irrelevant local news.

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BruceBBC
Great little video behind the scenes at STV News - http://stv.tv/news/features/1351411-behind-the-scenes-watch-how-the-stv-news-programmes-are-made/
thegeek and scottishtv gave kudos
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That is some timing, and its pretty clear that Edinburgh and Glasgow do run at different times, It must get worse when there trying to get Aberdeen to link up aswell.
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scottishtv Founding member

I think this needs to be plugged more. Hardly a great "little video" - I found myself compelled to watch the full 30 mins!

This is one of the best videos I've seen on this site. And who would've thought that it looks like Aberdeen has the most traditional setup you would expect - with the gallery staff not looking like they've been shoved into a small bit of office space. The Aberdeen PA has a soothing voice too - very calming!

I didn't think it was all going to come together again for all three versions so well right at the last second.

I have new respect for STV - they clearly have the newsgathering operation running well, despite fairly small teams in each location.

Thanks for posting! Smile

(PS. Shame about the metal on the sets though, have never really liked this look. Nice graphics though.)
Last edited by scottishtv on 26 April 2016 12:57am
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thegeek Founding member
That's impressive - the way they share correspondents between programmes with the same and different running orders is a good example of how the BBC could make a Scottish Six work, technically speaking, though that's probably a discussion for elsewhere.

do cute animal stories not happen in the north? Smile
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scottishtv Founding member
do cute animal stories not happen in the north? Smile

I wondered that too! I think they need the extra time for news actually. The former Grampian patch (STV North) has the added complexity of managing a Tayside sub-regional opt from Dundee. This took place between 18:10:30-ish and 18:16:00, but wasn't shown as a separate transmission on the video, so there were actually four varients of STV News happening at that time.

Does providing this much local news get STV out of other commitments? Don't the STV Central (Scottish) and STV North (Grampian) channel 3 licences just require one main programme in each region?
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noggin Founding member

Does providing this much local news get STV out of other commitments? Don't the STV Central (Scottish) and STV North (Grampian) channel 3 licences just require one main programme in each region?


Presumably STV do this because they think it gives them an edge over the pan-Scotland BBC Reporting Scotland. They may not have an obligation to do so, but they may feel it is beneficial to do so?
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Markymark

Does providing this much local news get STV out of other commitments? Don't the STV Central (Scottish) and STV North (Grampian) channel 3 licences just require one main programme in each region?


Presumably STV do this because they think it gives them an edge over the pan-Scotland BBC Reporting Scotland. They may not have an obligation to do so, but they may feel it is beneficial to do so?


It would still need to be 'cost neutral' when the sub-regional advertising is accounted for I suspect ?

I think there are more sub regional ad regions within 'ITV' than sub regional news regions ?
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Does providing this much local news get STV out of other commitments? Don't the STV Central (Scottish) and STV North (Grampian) channel 3 licences just require one main programme in each region?


Presumably STV do this because they think it gives them an edge over the pan-Scotland BBC Reporting Scotland. They may not have an obligation to do so, but they may feel it is beneficial to do so?


It would still need to be 'cost neutral' when the sub-regional advertising is accounted for I suspect ?

I think there are more sub regional ad regions within 'ITV' than sub regional news regions ?


It wasn't cost neutral, to begin with, but since winning the Local TV channels has helped pushed the cost back in its favor. But as said this it does give STV the edge, but the STV Edinburgh and the Dundee opt are cheery on top
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Steve in Pudsey
Getting to the same live at the same time, with questions in the middle is seriously impressive. It wasn't clear from the video, but I assume Glasgow coordinates that and Edinburgh is listening to Glasgow talkback, or vice versa?

Surprised at the lack of floor managers, and presenters dragging their own chairs on and off set, but I guess if you don't have studio guests and you're working with presenters who know the studio and the relevant H&S issues an FM can appear an expensive luxury for a set piece programme.

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