[lookoutwales]

For starters how would border viewers feel about seeing some stories from STV land, as far away as Inverness? How would they get a reporter there? And, its two STV areas, two licences, affected today, North and Central. So very difficult to do.

Not quite sure you’ve got the right idea there.

Putting out Lookaround on STV - and during STV’s airtime - would simply lead to a whole heap of management and union problems of their own.

It would unnecessarily drag ITV into the dispute.

The only Border journalists based in STV’s area are the political unit based at Holyrood.

How much Scottish news (specifically things like the Scottish Government and Parliament) is covered on Lookaround in a generic day/week?

I couldn’t say about Lookaround - but ITV’s Holyrood unit is kept busy enough producing a thrice-weekly political programme for Border’s Scottish patch after NaT and has been for well over a decade now.

In some ways, they do a better job in covering day-to-day Scottish politics and covering it from a more local, rather than national, perspective.