The Nightshift is an overnight regional television programme broadcast on STV in Northern and Central Scotland.

The service, broadcast live from STV's transmission control centre at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, features highlights of archived STV programmes, STV News & ITV News

ITV News

ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV. Since 1955, ITV's news bulletins have been produced by Independent Television News . The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society, Emmy Awards and BAFTAs. Between 2004 and 2008, the...

 bulletins, showbiz news items and archive aerial footage of Scotland, as well as texts & e-mails read out live on air by an out-of-vision presenter. The overnight strand began streaming live via the STV website at the same time it began broadcasting in Northern Scotland on 13 July 2010.

On Tuesday 12 April 2011, a separate edition of The Nightshift began airing in each of STV's four sub-regional areas used for news opt-outs and local advertising:

• Glasgow and West Central Scotland
• Edinburgh and East Central Scotland
• Aberdeen, the North East, Highlands and Islands
• Dundee, Tayside and North East Fife

The sub-regional programmes were axed in October 2011 and replaced with a single pan-regional edition serving both of the Northern and Central areas. News opt-outs for the four sub-regions on weeknights were retained.

Presenters

• Adele Cunningham (also Capital FM Scotland presenter)
• Liam Dolan
• Laura Keenan
• Hayley Matthews
• Cameron McKenna (also STV continuity announcer and Daybreak Scotland
  Daybreak Scotland
  Daybreak Scotland is the regional news strand for the two ITV regions in northern and central Scotland, provided for the ITV breakfast station ITV Breakfast...
  
  newsreader)
• Jim Symon
  Jim Symon
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   (also Bauer Scotland AM network presenter)

Guest presenters

• Laura Boyd (Entertainment Round-Up on Saturdays)
• Grant Lauchlan
  Grant Lauchlan
  Grant Lauchlan is a Scottish entertainment journalist and film critic for STV in Scotland.He studied journalism and film & media at Stirling University. After graduating he work as a news reporter for Radio Clyde. In 1998, Lauchlan started working as an assistant producer for STV's digital channel S2...
  
   (The Grant Lauchlan Movie Club on Tuesdays)

Former presenters

• Tam Cowan
  Tam Cowan
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• Karen Dunbar
  Karen Dunbar
  Karen Dunbar is a Scottish comedienne and entertainer.-Early life:She first came to the attention of mainstream audiences in the BBC Scotland comedy series Chewin' the Fat and subsequently was given her own show by the channel, The Karen Dunbar Show.Prior to mainstream success, Karen, an out...
  
  
• Alan Edwards
• Donny Hughes
• Gary Marshall
• Derek McIntyre
• Des McLean
  Des McLean
  Des McLean is a Scottish stand-up comedian, TV and Radio presenter from Glasgow, cited by Billy Connolly as his favourite comedian. He started comedy in 1999 and was a finalist in the BBC New Comedy Awards, in that year he was also a finalist in the Channel 4 programme So You Think You’re...
  
  
• Ravi Sagoo
• Josie Smith
• Shereen Tulloch