STV News

I'll be honest this is the very first time I have heard about this Red look, the lack of videos have not helped this: hence the reason i was confused about what you and some other people were on about:

Can anyone provide better details than this?

* Monday 8 October 1984: This look we believe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1HDEYx8pIDE#t=24s
* September 1985: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiK-i-WhHnw
* Monday 20 October 1986: Green look, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUok9vtDXmA at the start, From 1988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=I7r9F2n_-k0#t=28s

* 1989 - ??? RED LOOK

* ?? - Dec 1992: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hMHahdA78Cc#t=13s
* 4th Jan 1993: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qF4cAURkjQ
* 4 November 1996: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03n35_HByIs
* 17 February 2000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8AEe0J8xPT0#t=55s
* 6 January 2003: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJUA3acsI9M
* 5 January 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKv2zHkddQ0
* 24th July 2006

And to confuse matters: Glen Michael New Year Special from Jan 1991 covering all the best bits of 1990

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IwL7hKGy8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9IwL7hKGy8E#t=855s Just look at that set, looks like the one used until Dec 1992.

The date of the clip in TV-Ark of Mike Gower presenting the mid-afteroon news on STV is wrong - it dates from 1989-90, not 1987.

If I recall correctly, Malcolm Wilson and Sheena McDonald presented from that mainly white set with dashes of blue lighting. It was also from this set that Shereen made her anchoring debut, if I'm not mistaken. It was a very simple set with an angled desk. Nothing too fancy.

The same general set was updated to take on a sky/pastel blue look which, I believe, was at the same juncture as Viv Lumsden joining the channel. The blue look may just have been introduced prior to Viv joining.

It was essentially the same as the white set, but with a textures blue colour added.

Then........if I am not mistaken, the self same set appeared briefly in a slightly red/salmon pink rendition, as opposed to the blue and, by this time, was shared briefly with Scotsport, whilst an entirely new set was being constructed for Scotland Today. In fact, the salmon pink set may well have been Scotsports set, with Scotland Today just borrowing it briefly until theirs was ready.

When it was, an entirely new look was introduced, I guess in 1990/91, and along came the long, blue sweeping desk with blue backdrop and the illuminated thistle as the "leg" for the desk!

Or maybe I'm just mega confused????? But I recall the sharing of Scotsport and Scotland Today for a while.

It was a greyish white with painted bands of colour (blue and purple? ) in recesses lit with fluorescent tubes. I think.

I visited there and had a wee look. It was very rough looking (although it looked ok on air), and the Glen Michael set was struck into its components waiting in the other side of the studio.

EDIT: Blue. No purple. It was much deeper than it looked there. The desk must have been 4ft from front to back.

My Favourite Scotland Today titles where 1997-2000

A special edition of STV News at 6, due to Keith O'Brien resigning. Is this going pan regional?

It's A Special tonight, I take it North is also getting live with John Mckay in Edinburgh?

STV News East cut back to Juliet Dunlop at 1815.

Did North and East opt in cleanly tonight? You can quite clearly hear the end of the music on both North and East when it goes to John...

Don't think I've seen them make that kind of mistake before...

It happened with John anchored the programme live from George Square in September last year!

Also worth noting that the East version finished last night with no music, purely just the sound of Maggi Lavender's voice!