Scottish Television (now legally known as STV Central Ltd and referred to on-air as STV) is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since August 31, 1957. The studios were located on Renfield Street in Cowcaddens, Glasgow since its launch in 1957, but moved to new studios in Pacific Quay, alongside BBC Scotland and the Glasgow Science Centre in July 2006. The channel is now owned by SMG plc, which also owns Scotland's other independent television franchisee, Grampian Television, based in Aberdeen.
1964 - 1971
Some early examples of the Scottish Television symbol from 1964 until around 1971.
1971 - 1985
Scottish Television was referred to on screen as STV for a while. This was their first colour ident used up until the late 80's.
1985 - 1989
Scottish then launched this rather pleasing ident and introduced a new "Bertie Bassett" style thistle logo. It was launched in 1985.
1989 - 1990
Scottish adopted the ITV Generic look in 1989 and also revealed it's new style thistle logo, but this ident didn't last very long...
1990
... this is what it was replaced with. Tiddlywinks the theme here I think... used from 1990
1993 - 1996
A variant of the Scottish ident from 1993. It was used until 1996.
1996 - 1999
The last idents to feature the thistle symbol. This ident was used from 1996 until 1999, when this familiar symbol was retired.
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