Daybreak Scotland is the regional news strand for the two ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 regions in northern and central Scotland, provided for the ITV breakfast station ITV Breakfast

ITV Breakfast

ITV Breakfast Limited is the national ITV breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom...

. The bulletins are produced for Daybreak

Daybreak (ITV)

Daybreak is the weekday breakfast television programme on the British commercial ITV network that broadcasts on weekday mornings from 06:00 to 08:30 and is currently presented by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley from Monday to Thursday with Dan Lobb and Kate Garraway on Fridays...

by Macmillan Media

Macmillan Media

Macmillan Media is a multimedia company covering the UK and Ireland working in Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester and London, and is owned by British journalist Michael Macmillan.-Daybreak Regional News:...

, and are broadcast from studios in Glasgow.

Before 3 December 2007, the regional news opt outs during GMTV

GMTV

GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...

 (now Daybreak) were provided by the ITV franchise holders in central and northern Scotland, STV Central

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...

 and STV North

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...

 respectively. However, following a dispute between STV and GMTV

GMTV

GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...

, the contract for providing the regional news was awarded to Macmillan Media.

Macmillian Media also produces Daybreak Northern Ireland news for broadcast on UTV

UTV

UTV is a television channel based in the UK region of Northern Ireland. The channel is the Channel 3 or Independent Television licensee for Northern Ireland and is operated by UTV Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media.- Terrestrial :* Analogue: Normally tuned to 3 * Freeview : 3...

, the ITV franchise holder in Northern Ireland. Meanwhile, the regional news for the ITV regions in England and Wales are produced by the corresponding ITV plc

ITV plc

ITV plc is a British media company that operates 12 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom...

 regions. Channel Television

Channel Television

Channel Television is a British television station which has served as an Independent Television contractor to the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey...

 continues to produce its own breakfast news bulletins. Viewers in southern Scotland receive pan-regional news from the ITV Tyne Tees and Border region.

GMTV Scotland was rebranded as Daybreak Scotland in September 2010, when GMTV was replaced by new breakfast programme, Daybreak. Regional bulletins air every Monday to Friday at 6.15am, 7.15am and 8.15am, and includes a look at the days main headlines, a travel news update, and a weather forecast.

Current Presenters & Reporters

• Lindsey Archibald (Central News Editor)
• Elspeth Badger (North News Editor)
• Laura Haldane (Presenter & Central Video Journalist)
• Amanda McClatchie (Presenter)
• Cameron McKenna (Presenter)
• Katie Paterson (Central Video Journalist)
• John Robertson (North Video Journalist)

Former Staff

• Brian O'Neill (also News Editor)
• Catherine Brown (also News Editor)
• Gerry Cassidy (now working on Daybreak
  Daybreak (ITV)
  Daybreak is the weekday breakfast television programme on the British commercial ITV network that broadcasts on weekday mornings from 06:00 to 08:30 and is currently presented by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley from Monday to Thursday with Dan Lobb and Kate Garraway on Fridays...
  
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• Katie Hunter (also News Editor)
• Kirsteen O'Sullivan (also News Editor)