[lookoutwales]

I assume Wales has never had it's own coverage in the ITV Wales era but did HTV ever do anything?

The last Wales-specific coverage I can recall was in 2005, when most (if not all) regions did two-minute opt outs in the networked election night programme (once every two hours, IIRC) - which appears to be the last time there were any regional opts.

Stretching further back, the regions usually mounted longer opts in GMTV / TV-am's hours - and maybe a full half-hour programme during the daytime.

I'm assuming the reason for why STV aren't going in-house is because they buy in everything from ITV these days, it'd make better use of their resources to use STV reporters on the networked ITV News Election programme rather than have a full team at Pacific Quay to produce an overnight show.

It's been mentioned before but since the 'affiliate' agreement between ITV and STV came into force in 2012 - following the long legal wrangle over networked output - STV have increasingly fallen into line with the rest of the network, so it pretty much seems a logical next step to not go its own way on a general election night.