STV Group (Scotland)

STV Group plc, previously known as Scottish Television and Scottish Media Group, is a Scottish media company. It is a constituent of the FTSE Fledgling Index. Originally formed as Scottish Television, it changed its name to Scottish Media Group in 1996 when it acquired Caledonian Publishing, owners of Glasgow-based newspapers The Herald and Evening Times (both of which have since been sold). It then went on to acquire the ITV licence holder for Northern Scotland, Grampian Television, in 1997. Scottish and Grampian merged brands in 2006 to form STV.

History

Originally formed as Scottish Television, it changed its name to Scottish Media Group in 1996 when it acquired Caledonian Publishing, owners of Glasgow-based newspapers The Herald and Evening Times (both of which have since been sold). It then went on to acquire the ITV licence holder for Northern Scotland, Grampian Television in June 1997. In August 1997 the company acquired a 15% stake in UTV In 1999 it launched a new Sunday broadsheet newspaper, the Sunday Herald. The company renamed itself again as "SMG plc" in 2000 by which time it had expanded further through the acquisitions of Primesight (outdoor advertising), Pearl & Dean and Ginger Media Group, which included Ginger Television and the UK radio station, Virgin Radio. Talks were also held which could have led to Border Television and Ulster Television being bought, but they came to nothing.

STV Group

STV Group can refer to one of the following, unrelated companies:

STV Group (United States)

STV Group, Inc., is a private, employee-owned corporation specializing in engineering, architectural, planning and construction management services, serving the building and facilities, transportation, energy, and infrastructure market sectors. Employing more than 1,700 professionals, STV has national and international offices.

History

STV marking its 100th anniversary in 2012. STV's oldest predecessor firm, Seelye Stevenson Value & Knecht, was founded in New York City in 1912 as Elwyn E. Seelye & Co. as a structural engineering firm. Over the years, the firm's disciplines grew to include mechanical, electrical and civil engineering. The firm performed multi-disciplined engineering services throughout the country, working on projects such as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., the parachute jump at the 1939 World's Fair, NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the Enrico Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.