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(January 2011)

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PE
Pete19
That's another left STV for radio. Colin Stone has left and now works at Radio Clyde as a Senior Reporter.
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A former member
That's another left STV for radio. Colin Stone has left and now works at Radio Clyde as a Senior Reporter.


To be fair some of them were recruited as apart of the STV local channel partnership with local uni, so it's doing its job. One of the newer starts have taken their place. Emma Cameron is also been reading STV edinburgh news all this week.
GM
Gary McEwan
That's another left STV for radio. Colin Stone has left and now works at Radio Clyde as a Senior Reporter.


To be fair some of them were recruited as apart of the STV local channel partnership with local uni, so it's doing its job. One of the newer starts have taken their place. Emma Cameron is also been reading STV edinburgh news all this week.


Emma Cameron was at BBC Scotland before switching sides to STV...
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A former member
That's another left STV for radio. Colin Stone has left and now works at Radio Clyde as a Senior Reporter.


To be fair some of them were recruited as apart of the STV local channel partnership with local uni, so it's doing its job. One of the newer starts have taken their place. Emma Cameron is also been reading STV edinburgh news all this week.


Emma Cameron was at BBC Scotland before switching sides to STV...


Bang goes my theory then Wink im sure some of the other STV people did start with the STV local channel.
GM
Gary McEwan

To be fair some of them were recruited as apart of the STV local channel partnership with local uni, so it's doing its job. One of the newer starts have taken their place. Emma Cameron is also been reading STV edinburgh news all this week.


Emma Cameron was at BBC Scotland before switching sides to STV...


Bang goes my theory then Wink im sure some of the other STV people did start with the STV local channel.


To throw it all to one side, we've now got Nick Sheridan from RTE News doing the GMB headlines in the morning.
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A former member
Susan Ripoll also leaving today:



DK
DanielK
Susan Ripoll also leaving today:




To be fair, she was utterly crap.
SL
Shaun Linden
GMc posted:
STV News Tonight has been on air for 8 weeks now - but according to viewing figures from BARB, it hasn't really made much of an impact. The most amount of viewers it has had was on the 10th May, when 17,000 tuned in.

Arrow w/e 7th May: STV NEWS TONIGHT (FRI 1900) - 12,000 (7th most watched)
Arrow w/e 14th May: STV NEWS TONIGHT (WED 1900) - 17,000 (4th most watched)
Arrow w/e 30th May: STV NEWS TONIGHT (TUE 1900) - 12,000 (9th most watched)

Here is a list of the 10th most watched programme on weeks where STV News Tonight hasn't made the list:
Arrow w/e 21st May: PETER & ROUGHIE'S FOOTBALL SHOW (4) (WED 1932) - 11,000
Arrow w/e 28th May: STV NEWS F/B WEATHER (WEEKDAY) (TUE 2624) - 10,000
Arrow w/e 4th June: STV NEWS AT SIX (2) (TUE 1800) - 11,000
Arrow w/e 11th June: PETER & ROUGHIE'S LEGENDS (1) (SAT 1531) - 9,000

It seems that since STV2 launched (well, added three new cities to its broadcast area) - it hasn't added viewers at all...


Is that taking data from the whole of STV 2 though or is BARB simply updating the Glasgow / Edinburgh areas, with the name change on BARB?
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GMc
BARB lists three separate channels: STV2, STV City and STV Glasgow.
STV2 is the only one being updated, so I would assume that's the whole network of cities.
PC
p_c_u_k
If STV thought launching a national and international news programme on STV2 was ever going to bring in huge audiences then they're mad, frankly.

I assumed that the reason it existed was three-fold: to steal a march on the BBC and say they had this sort of show first; to keep opinion formers happy and avoid complaining that the city TV concept is essentially being abandoned; but most pressingly as a test run to see if it's worth doing on the main channel.

Something like this is never going to bring in huge ratings and make tons of money - especially on the secondary channel which may be on 8 on Freeview but is buried away on the likes of Sky. Even a Scottish Six - taking out ITN and doing the whole hour themselves - is a risky business when people might by default stick with the BBC. So why not give it a trial run away from most people's attention and see how it goes first?

64 days later

PE
Pete19
Shereen Nanjiani, Viv Lumsden and Angus Simpson have all just popped up on STV News at 6.
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rob Founding member
Shereen Nanjiani, Viv Lumsden and Angus Simpson have all just popped up on STV News at 6.


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