New look STV News at Six

Big day @STVNews. A 1.2m upgrade to the technical operation in Aberdeen went live after 8 months of painstaking work. It includes HD studio, new gallery and back-end HD infrastructure. After a difficult 2018 this investment reinforces company’s commitment to regional news. pic.twitter.com/MFc0BvoAsi

— Donald J MacDonald (@DJMacDSTV) April 23, 2019

Pan Regional tonight coming from Aberdeen with Ben Phillip.

Due to the Bank holiday. The previous 2 bank holiday editions over Easter were pan-Scottish with John MacKay.

Apparently STV have regionalised STV HD into three regions, West, East and North, the latter presumably without the Dundee sub-opt.

It may have been the first time viewers in Glasgow and Edinburgh watched a HD bulletin rather than an upscaled SD version?

STV and Virgin Media went into a 4 year deal to bring the STV Player onto its platform and HD to the regions including Dundee.

I would imagine the sub opt is still upscaled.

Breaking News!

Fantastic to read that Shereen is receiving an MBE for services to broadcasting.

https://www.clydebankpost.co.uk/news/national/17692926.tv-and-radio-presenter-shereen-nanjiani-a-bit-overwhelmed-at-mbe/

I was in Scotland a few days last week so caught the STV News.

So within the main programme they flit between Glasgow and Edinburgh (one of the nights I watched both presenters were females who were obviously both unknown to me, so it was quite confusing to remember who was hosting which bit), but is there separate opt outs at some point and if so,at which point, rather than them just reading each other’s stories?

Also, one notable thing is that STV do the Pollen Count completely separate after the programme, whereas ITV regions do it within the programme after the weather. Talking about the weather, Sean’s certainly built his part, you never seem to be more than 15 mins away from him appearing on STV all night.

That would have been most likely Emma Cameron in Glasgow and Kelly-Ann Woodland in Edinburgh

The programme is broadcast across Central Scotland as one programme, but when there are local stories to say Glasgow, it 'Opts Out' to the Glasgow presenter and the same situation in Edinburgh.

So when you see a local report is about something in Kilmarnock, a local report will be playing out in Edinburgh.

Also the sports segment is an 'Opt Out' as well with separate slots for Glasgow and Edinburgh with different presenters also.

A good way to get a real feel of how of works is to view the Glasgow and Edinburgh broadcasts on the STV Player.

From what you say about the pollen count I assume STV News has a proper close then rather than linking into the ITV News. Have they kept an ident at 6.30pm?

Yep we've got a proper close, then the pollent count and a very short ident into the Evening News.

I've never understood the separate pollen count. I thought, maybe due to the sport being sponsored, the pollen count sponsor would be to much within one 30-minute programme. I'm not sure if the ITV regions' sport slots have sponsorship?

Granada does.