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Scotland Tonight is a Scottish news and current affairs programme, covering the two STV franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by STV News.The programme is presented by STV News at Six Central anchor John MacKay on Mondays & Tuesdays and former Sky News Scotland correspondent Rona Dougall on Wednesdays & Thursday.
STV News Tonight was produced and broadcast from Glasgow using STV's resources from across Scotland and the UK and international resources of ITN. [6] The half-hour programme, launched on Monday 24 April 2017, was presented by Halla Mohieddeen and aired each weeknight at 7 pm on STV2.
Three weeks after being made redundant from Sky, STV bosses offered Dougall a job as a co-anchor on the soon-to-be launched Scotland Tonight, after she spotted a post on the Facebook page of STV News anchor John MacKay. She said: "John is a friend on Facebook and a couple of months ago he posted about this great new current affairs programme on ...
John MacKay (born 13 September 1966) [1] [2] is a Scottish broadcast journalist, television presenter, producer and writer. He currently is a main anchor for the STV News at Six in Central Scotland and the current affairs programme Scotland Tonight.
The output includes a primetime weeknight news programme called STV News Tonight which combines news from across all of Scotland with UK and international news. [47] 2018. 30 June – STV2 closes down and the channel's assets are sold to That's Media, owners of the That's TV network of local television stations in England. [48]
23 April – Local channels STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh close and are replaced by a single channel STV2 which acts as a sister channel to STV. [2] STV2 also launches in Aberdeen, Dundee and Ayr, the three areas which STV had also been awarded a local TV licence. A single networked schedule is broadcast in all five areas.
A late night current affairs programme, Scotland Tonight, was launched in October 2011. [9] Stealing a march on its traditional rival, STV used the opportunity of its STV2 channel to launch an hour-long news programme, STV News Tonight airing each weeknight at 7 pm and incorporating Scottish, UK and international news. [10]
The change sees STV launch a primetime weeknight news programme called STV News Tonight which combined news from across all of Scotland with UK and international news. [42] 2018. 30 June – STV2 closes down and the channel's assets are sold to That's Media, owners of the That's TV network of local television stations in England. [43]