Grampian Television

STV North (2006–)
Grampian Television (1961–2006)
Former logo

Based in	Aberdeen
Broadcast area	Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Dundee Highland (except Lochaber) Moray North Fife Orkney Islands Perth and Kinross Shetland Islands Western Isles
First airdate	30 September 1961
Closed	lost on-air identity on 30 May 2006 (rebranded as STV along with Scottish Television).
Owned by	STV Group plc
Website	stv.tv
Grampian Television logo, late 1990s Last Grampian Television logo before rebrand, used from 2003 - 2006.

Grampian Television (now legally known as STV North Ltd and referred to on-air as STV) is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Northern Isles, the Western Isles, the Highlands (except Fort William and Lochaber, which have always received Scottish Television), Grampian, Tayside (except the Kinross area), and parts of north Fife. The station has been in operation since 30 September 1961.

STV North is owned and operated by STV Group plc (formerly SMG plc), which also owns another Scottish ITV franchise, Scottish Television (now known as STV Central off-air), based in Glasgow and serving Central Scotland.

STV North's regional news programme for Northern Scotland is called STV News at Six and is supplemented by short news bulletins on weekdays. The station also produces regional television commercials.

Both STV North and STV Central have resisted adopting the generic ITV branding that is now commonplace throughout regions in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Southern Scotland and the Channel Islands that are owned by ITV plc.

In 2008, the United Kingdom began its 5-year programme to end analogue television broadcasts as part of the switchover to digital transmissions, with the eight transmitters covering the STV North region (Angus, Rosemarkie, Knockmore, Eitshal, Durris, Bressay, Rumster Forest and Keelylang Hill) switching over from May to October 2010.

Applications for the new North East Scotland contract area were sought by the Independent Television Authority in the spring of 1960. From the original seven applicants, three serious contenders emerged and the contract was awarded in August 1960 to North of Scotland Television Limited on the provision that board positions were offered to the other two final applicants, Caledonian Television and North Caledonian Television. The company's first managing director was G E Ward Thomas who later established Yorkshire Television in 1968.

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