Crossfire was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 regional television current affairs programme produced and broadcast by Grampian Television

Grampian Television

Grampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife...

 between 1984 and 2004.

The programme covered political, business and social issues concerning the northern Scotland region and was the successor to the long-running Points North series, broadcast between 1961 and 1984.

Crossfire was also broadcast in the Scottish Television

Scottish Television

Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...

 region during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The programme was axed in 2004 to make way for a new political programme entitled Politics Now

Politics Now

Politics Now was a Scottish political programme produced and broadcast by STV in northern and central Scotland. The half-hour programme, running for 40 weeks of the year, was broadcast on late Thursday evenings....

, co-produced by Scottish and Grampian (now STV Central and STV North respectively).