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2020 so far

                         Through these unprecedented six
                         months, STV has served not only as
                         a vital source of news and information
                         for the people of Scotland, but also as
                         a source of entertainment
                         and companionship.

                         This book highlights STV’s impact
                         during the first half of the year across
                         Broadcast, Digital and Productions.
The Masked Singer, STV
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Contents
                                                              Van der Valk, STV

2   2020 so far                21   Digital
                               22   YoY overview
                                    Top programmes
4 Half-year Higlights
                               23   Genre profiles
5 Profiles
                                    Streams by platforms
6 STV micro regions
                               24   Streams by device
7 TV Platforms
                               25   STV Player developments
                               26   Acquisitions
8 Broadcast
9 Reach
   Audience growth             27 STV Productions
10 All time                    28 Shows
11 Lockdown numbers            29 Commissions
12 Peak time
13 Top 15                      30   Coming up
14 Daytime                     31   Glossary
15 SVoD
   TV set usage
16 Hitting the headlines
17 STV News reach
19 Scotland Tonight
   Digital News
20 All major news programmes
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Half-year highlights
January                                   February                                  March                                         April                                        May                                       June
STV Productions secures their largest     The STV Player launches on Apple TV       STV News at Six temporarily changes to        The STV Player successfully secures          The second series of STV Productions’     Two dramas from STV Productions are
ever order: four new series of Antiques   devices, bringing live channels, on-      a single pan-Scotland news programme          new deals with five content partners,        Inside Central Station airs on the BBC    shortlisted for BAFTAs: Elizabeth is
Road Trip and two new series of           demand content and STV Player+            covering all regions, due to lockdown.        bringing in 270 hours of new content         Scotland channel and again it is one of   Missing nominated in the Single Drama
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.             features to another new platform.                                                       and two new live streaming channels.         the best watched series on the channel    category, Glenda Jackson in the Leading
                                                                                    STV launches its Local Lifeline initiative,                                                this year.                                Actress category and The Victim
The Masked Singer launches, making        STV and Really commission STV             benefitting over 100 local businesses         Take The High Road, celebrating its                                                    nominated for Best Mini-series.
it the most successful entertainment      Productions to produce Clear Out Cash     and charities impacted by the Covid-19        40th anniversary, restarts from its first    Annie Lennox, KT Tunstall and Amy
launch on the channel since 2013,         In, with 10x one-hour episodes to         pandemic by providing free on-air and         episode on the STV Player.                   Macdonald perform in aid of the           Channel 5 commissions a four-part
with an average audience of 568k.         broadcast on Really and 8x half-hour      online advertising.                                                                        STV Children’s Appeal Emergency           60 minute factual series from STV
                                          episodes for STV.                                                                       The Scottish Children’s Lottery donates      Coronavirus Campaign.                     Productions about the Royal family
Scotland Tonight moves into a                                                       Scotland Tonight on the 26th features         £205k of emergency funding to                                                          and their often troubled relationship
new regular peak time slot on             White House Farm becomes the most         a Covid-19 Q&A with the First Minister.       vulnerable families affected by Covid-19.    In Conversation with Bernard              with the British press.
Thursday nights.                          watched drama ever on the STV Player,     With an average of 435k viewers and a                                                      Ponsonby, a new series exclusively
                                          with 1.3 million streams.                 25% share, this was the most watched          STV’s all-time viewing in April was higher   produced for the STV Player,              STV News (North) wins an RTS award
More free sport comes to the STV Player                                             episode in the show’s history.                than any previous month in the past          launches online.                          for best News programme. This is the
in the form of EDGEsport, the fastest     STV is the first commercial broadcaster                                                 8 years.                                                                               third year in a row that STV News has
growing global action sports channel.     to launch a restart feature, known as     The average Scot is spending 6 hours                                                                                                 won the award.
                                          ‘green button,’ on Freeview Standard      and 11 minutes in front of the TV set a       Beat The Chasers – a brand new peak
STV Productions acquires a minority       and High Definition channels.             day during the first week of lockdown.        time spin-off of The Chase – attracts an                                               Andrea Gibb wins RTS award for best
equity stake in drama producer                                                                                                    audience of 497k. This made it the most                                                writer for Elizabeth is Missing.
Two Cities Television, enhancing its                                                                                              popular game show across all channels.
reputation as a leading producer
of drama.
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Profile
                                                                                              Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, STV

            STV           STV Player                       STV News Facebook
    Male    38%               43%                                   29%
   Female   62%               57%                                   71%
    ABC1    35%               50%                                      –
    C2DE    65%               50%                                      –
   16-34    8%                29%                                   27%
   35-54    31%               36%                                   43%
    55+     61%               35%                                   30%

                  BARB Jan-Jun 2020; STV Database Jan-Jun 2020; Facebook Analytics Jul 2020
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STV micro regions
                                            Shetland
                                                           Viewing by STV channel

                                                           43%                 55%                  2%
                                                                 SD                 HD                 +1

                                     STV Aberdeen          Advertising by micro region

                                                           Glasgow            SD          HD          +1       Edinburgh   SD     HD        +1
                                                           Freeview                                            Freeview          Glasgow   Glasgow

                                                           Virgin                                              Virgin                      Glasgow
                       STV West         STV Dundee
                                                           Sky                                        n/a      Sky                           n/a

                                                           Freesat                       Aberdeen     n/a      Freesat           Glasgow     n/a

Macro      4,170,000
                                                           Dundee             SD          HD          +1       Aberdeen    SD     HD        +1
Central    3,097,000
                                                           Freeview                      Glasgow    Aberdeen   Freeview          Glasgow             Feed shows local advertising
West       2,093,000
                                                           Virgin                                   Aberdeen   Virgin      n/a     n/a       n/a     Feed shows local advertising
East       1,005,000                        STV East                                                                                                 from a different region
North      1,073,000                                       Sky                                        n/a      Sky                           n/a

Aberdeen   719,000                                         Freesat                       Glasgow      n/a      Freesat           Glasgow     n/a

Dundee     353,000
                                  BARB, Jul 2020, adults   Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, individuals
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TV platforms
                                                                                                      White House Farm, STV

TV platform on main TV set in household

                         Freeview         Sky   Virgin   Freesat                  BT TV

Scotland                   39%            35%   17%        3%                       2%

UK                         37%            33%   15%        4%                       2%

                                                          Source: BARB Establishment Survey Q1 2020
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STV viewing is at an 8 year high and   Britain’s Got Talent, STV
we continue to be Scotland’s top TV
channel in peak time.

Broadcast
Reach                                                                         Audience growth

Daily: 38%   Weekly: 67%   Monthly: 82%                                       Average audience change YoY for key demographics

1.5m 2.7m 3.3m
                                                                                                    Individuals              Men   Women   ABC1   C2DE   Under 44s   Over 44s

                                                                                  All time               12%                 16%    9%     9%     14%      -3%         15%
                                                                                  Daytime                25%                 26%    23%    22%    26%      14%         26%
                                                                                 Peak time                4%                  9%    0%     1%     5%       -13%        7%

                                                                              12% growth in audience across
                                                                              all time is highest we have
                                                                              seen since records began.

                             Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, adults, 09:30-29:59   Source: BARB Jan-Jun2020, all time (09:30-24:00),
                                                                              daytime (09:30-17:59), peak time (18:00-22:30)
0
                                                                         50K
                                                                               100K
                                                                                      150K
                                                                                             200K
                                                                                                    250K
                                                                                                           300K
                                                                                                                  350K
                                                                                                                         400K
                                                                                                                                450K
                                                                                                                                       500K
                                                       0930 - 0959

                                                       1000 - 1029

                                                       1030 - 1059

Source: Put source here
                                                                                                                                              Average audience
                                                       1100 - 1129
                                                                                                                                                                   commercial channels.
                                                       1130 - 1159
                                                                                                                                                                                                           All time

                                                       1200 - 1229

                                                       1230 - 1259
                                                                                                                                                                   is head and shoulders above all other

                                                       1300 - 1329
                                                                                                                                                                   STV’s average audience across the day

                                                       1330 - 1359

                                                       1400 - 1429

                                                       1430 - 1459

                                                       1500 - 1529
                                                                                                                                                                 Channel 5
                                                                                                                                                                 Channel 4

                                                       1530 - 1559
                                                                                                                                                                 STV H1 2019
                                                                                                                                                                 STV H1 2020

                                                       1600 - 1629

                                                       1630 - 1659

                                                       1700 - 1729

                                                       1730 - 1759

                                                       1800 - 1829

                                                       1830 - 1859

                                                       1900 - 1929

                                                       1930 - 1959

                                                       2000 - 2029

                                                       2030 - 2059

                                                       2100 - 2129

                                                       2130 - 2159

                                                       2200 - 2229

                                                       2230 - 2259

                                                       2300 - 2329

                                                       2330 - 2359
Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2019, Jan-Jun 2020, individuals

                                                       2400 - 2429
                                                                                                                                                                                                               Flesh and Blood, STV
Lockdown numbers
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Quiz, STV

                                                                                                                                                                           90%                        3
The first phase of lockdown was          Live streaming on the STV Player
announced live on STV News at Six by     increased by 81% and if watching
Nicola Sturgeon on March 20th 2020.      live was not your cup of tea, there
                                         are 100 box sets available to binge.                                                                                              of Scots watch       new episodes of
STV underwent huge schedule changes                                                                                                                                        STV in first 100     STV’s soaps still
during lockdown as 100% of drama         During the difficult lockdown period, STV                                                                                        days of lockdown      being broadcast
production and live sport stopped.       helped Scottish charities and businesses                                                                                                                 each week
94% of STV staff began working           by launching a £1million Local Lifeline

                                                                                                                                                                           52%                        0
fromhome and 14 members of the           initiative and distributing £1.5million
Transmission team kept the channel       from the STV Children’s Appeal.
on air remotely from their homes.
                                                                                                                                                                         increase in daytime      goals scored
Schedule changes included two bespoke                                                                                                                                     average audience       in Euro 2020*
government advert breaks, created in                                                                                                                                       across the week
STV News at Six and Scotland Tonight.
The News at Six programme was
watched by an average of over 500k
each night.

Not only did the average Scot spend
6 hours 11 mins infront of their TV
sets during the first week of lockdown
but the STV Player also saw a surge
in viewing.

                                                                                     Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, Adobe Analytics Jan-Jun 2020, Freewheel Jan-Jun 2020.   *Euro 2020 has been
                                                                                     Daytime across weeks 12-22, Mon-Fri, 0930-2400, STV News at Six weeks 12-22         rescheduled for 2021
Peak time
Average audience                                                                                                                               Viewing share %
No other channel in Scotland delivers a   The gap between STV and BBC1 is                                                                      STV continues to punch above its
higher peak time audience than STV.       growing and is the largest it has been                                                               weight, outperforming the ITV Network
STV’s peak time audience has grown by     in the last ten years.                                                                               for viewing share.
4% YoY.
                                                                                                                                               STV’s peak time share is +2.2 points on
                                                                                                                                               ITV Network’s share across the UK. This
 353k                                                                                                                                          share differential is the highest it has
         328k                                                                                                                                  been in 18 years.

                                                                                                                                               STV’s all time & peak time share gains
                                                                                                                                               are higher than any other ITV region.

                                                                                                                                                                          STV              Network           Diff v Net
                   101k    97k
                                    64k                                                                                                         Jan-Jun 2019              21.1               20.4                 0.7
                                           39k      35k      32k                                                                                Jan-Jun 2020              21.4               19.3                 2.2
                                                                      26k      22k        21k        19k        19k        18k        16k

                                                                                                                                                YoY                        0.3                -1.1
 STV     BBC1     BBC2     Ch4      Ch5    ITV3     ITV2     BBC      E4      CBS        Film4       BBC       More4     Drama       ITV4
                                                           Scotland          Reality                News

                                                                            Source: BARB, Jan-Jun 2020, peak time (18:00-22:30), individuals   Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2019, Jan-Jun 2020, share is STV & STV HD (excl. +1)
Top 15
                                                                                                                           Vera, STV

                                        Avg. Audience   TVR   Share %   Reach   Across the first half of 2020, 97% of
                                                                                commercial audiences greater than
Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway       777k        17      44      2.2m    half a million were on STV.
Prime Minister’s Statement                  710k        15      27      670k
                                                                                STV’s soaps are hard to beat: Coronation
Britain’s Got Talent                        656k        14      39      1.8m    Street has won 99% of its time slots
Coronation Street                           654k        14      39      2.2m    over the past 18 years and Emmerdale
                                                                                has won 98% of its slots.
Emmerdale                                   651k        14      39      2.2m
Quiz                                        574k        12      26      1.0m    STV dominated Saturday nights,
                                                                                with 9 of the top 10 best watched
Vera                                        573k        12      27      1.2m    entertainment shows driving a YoY
                                                                                audience increase of 21%.
The Masked Singer                           568k        12      33      1.9m
Van der Valk                                568k        12      30      1.2m    6 of the 10 best watched new
                                                                                dramas in Scotland were on STV.
White House Farm                            530k        11      24      1.1m
Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip            523k        11      27      1.1m
Bradley Walsh: Happy 60th Birthday          514k        11      26      626k
Flesh and Blood                             502k        11      23      839k
Beat the Chasers                            497k        11      25      1.2m
STV News at Six                             486k        10      33      2.7m

                                                                                Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, individuals
Daytime
Average audience                                                                                                                                                           61%                                Growth in daytime YoY
Across weekdays, STV is the best         STV        BBC1            BBC2                  CH4                  CH5                                                                                      57%   STV’s daytime audience has grown by
watched daytime channel in Scotland.                                                                                                                                                                          25% YoY – this is a higher YoY increase
                                         165k       164k             43k                  35k                  35k                                                                                            than any other PSB channel in Scotland
STV’s daytime audience is bigger                                                                                                                                                                              or the UK.
than the combined audience of BBC2,
Channel 4 and Channel 5.                                                                                                                                                                                      Every STV daytime time slot has seen
                                                                                                                                                                                                              an increase in audience YoY.
                                                                                                                                                                                         40%

                                                                                                                                                              29%

                         Avg. Audience     TVR         Share %                  Reach                        YoY

Lorraine                      123k              3          23                    1.5m                       21%
This Morning                  120k              3          20                    2.3m                       36%
Loose Women                   90k               2          12                    1.8m                       10%
Judge Rinder                  102k              2          15                    1.6m                       21%
Tenable                       139k              3          19                    1.7m                       17%                                  3%
                                                                                                                                  -2%
Tipping Point                 276k              6          31                    2.1m                       23%
The Chase                     400k              9          33                    2.5m                       13%
                                                                                                                                   Jan           Feb          Mar           Apr          May            Jun

                                                                Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, individuals, Mon-Fri (09:30-17:59)   Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, daytime Mon-Fri (09:30-17:59), individuals
SVoD
Subscription video on demand                                                                                                  TV set usage
                                         56%
Scots watch an average of 3 hrs 41               53%                                                                          Three quarters of time spent in front
mins of broadcast TV per day, which is                                                                                        of a TV set in Scotland is spent viewing
25 minutes more than the UK average.                   49%                                                                    broadcast TV.
Scotland also has a higher uptake of                           46%
SVoD services.
                                                                                                                              Unmatched viewing, which includes
                                                                                                                              SVoD, gaming and some Broadcast
Scotland’s uptake of SVoD platforms
                                                                                                                              VoD (BVoD), only accounts for 27%
has seen no growth between the Q4
                                                                                                                              of viewing on a TV set.
of 2019 and Q1 of 2020.

  Scotland
                                                                                                                              Unmatched viewing 27%
  UK                                                                                   28%
                                                                              27%
                                                                                                                              Broadcast TV 73%

                                                                                                         7%
                                                                                                                  6%

                                          Total SVoD     Netflix           Amazon Prime Video              Now TV

                                                                     Source: BARB Establishment Survey, Households, Q1 2020   Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, individuals, total TV/
                                                                                                                              unmatched/non-linear, average minutes per day
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                                                                                Circulation: 1166500
                                                                                    Source: ABC Sep 2019

                                                                                                                            STV has been hitting the headlines

      STV overtake BBC                                                                                                      during the first half of the year. Features
                                                                                                                            include: STV’s viewing performance and
                                                                                                                            Take the High Road’s anniversary.
 e       Station claims
         victory as the
 -

         lockdown telly
         war rages, pulling
         ahead in battle for
         daytime viewers.
         And guess who’s
  -      behind 70% rise
         in streaming...
      By Graham Grant
      Home Affairs Editor
                                                                 n et w or k an d fou r t im es t h e gr ow t h r at e
      ST V h as cl ai m ed vi ct or y i n t h e                  of B B C O n e Scot lan d ’.
      b at t l e for vi ew er s d u r i n g l ock -                O ver all au d ien ce sh ar e is t h e h igh est it
      d ow n aft er r ep or t in g a su r ge in                  h as b een sin ce 2008.
      it s au d ien ce.                                            I t r em ai n s Scot l an d ’s m ost w at ch ed
        Sco t s h av e, u n su r p r i si n gl y, b een          p eak -t im e st at ion – an d acr oss t h e t op
                                                                 t en com m er ci al ch an n el s, ST V ’s p eak
      w at ch in g m or e T V sin ce lat e M ar ch               au d i en ce i s b i gger t h an al l t h e ot h er
      an d n ow sp en d five-an d -a-h alf h ou r s              ch an n els com b in ed .
      in fr on t of a T V scr een p er w eek – an                  T h e b r oad cast er h as seen it s au d ien ces
      h ou r m or e t h an p r e-lock d ow n .                   gr ow b y 13 p er cen t year on year, w h ile
       ST V said it h ad d eliver ed t h e ‘h igh est            d u r in g lock d ow n t h is figu r e h as r isen t o
      year-on -year gr ow t h in au d ien ce volu m e            29 p er cen t .
      of an y p u b lic ser vice b r oad cast er in t h e          I n t h e 16-44 age gr ou p , i t s au d i en ce
      U K , d ou b le t h e r at e of gr ow t h of t h e I T V   in cr eased b y 29 p er cen t .

                                                                                                                                                    Source: Scottish Daily Mail, The Courier, Sunday Mail

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                                                                STV News at Six live from major incident
                                                                           in Glasgow, 26th June 2020

TV reach

Daily      Weekly

874k 1.7m
Monthly    Half-year

2.6m 3.7m
                       Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, individuals
                       watched any STV News bulletin
Trusted news source
Scotland Tonight, STV

                          78% STV                                                                                    According to
                                                                                                                     Ofcom, STV
                          76% Channel 4                                                                              is one of the
                          74% Broadsheets                                                                            most trusted
                                                                                                                     for news and
                          74% ITV                                                                                    information about
                          72% Channel 5                                                                              the Covid-19
                                                                                                                     pandemic, across
                          70% Sky                                                                                    all commercial
                          67% Online Broadsheets
                                                                                                                     media in Scotland.

                          56% Commercial radio                                                                       Note: Select
                                                                                                                     sources shown in
                          56% Community radio
                                                                                                                     chart for display
                          55% Magazines                                                                              purposes but STV
                                                                                                                     is one of the most
                          55% Podcasts
                                                                                                                     trusted news
                          45% Smart speaker                                                                          source across
                                                                                                                     all commercial
                          33% Instagram
                                                                                                                     sources in survey.
                          30% Snapchat

                          29% Youtube

                          27% Twitter

                          15% Facebook

                        Source: Ofcom, Covid-19 news and information; consumption and atitudes, Q5 wk 1-8 combined
Scotland Tonight                                                                                                          Digital News
                                Average audience                  Share%
                                                                                                                                                                                                            3.3m

Overall (Mon-Thu)                      130k                          11                                                                                                                              3.1m

Peak time (Thu)                        210k                          14

Late night (Mon-Wed)                       69k                        7

                                                                                                                                                                                              1.7m

Scotland Tonight is the leading Scottish     On March 26th 2020, Scotland Tonight                                         Unique users                                                 1.5m

current affairs show, with an average        recorded its biggest ever audience.
audience of 130k across the week.            An average of 435k tuned in to watch                                         STV News launched its new website
                                             First Minister Nicola Sturgeon answer                                        and app in December last year. Since           990k
                                                                                                                                                                                980k
The Thursday episode of Scotland             the nation’s questions on the Covid-19                                       January 2020, users have more than
Tonight has moved to a new peak time         pandemic in Scotland.                                                        tripled to 3.3 million.
slot, which has doubled the average
audience YoY.                                                                                                             The top three most read stories were
                                                                                                                          all coronavirus related, including stories
                                                                                                                          about a care home, a nurse’s death and
                                                                                                                          lockdown easing.                               Jan    Feb    Mar    Apr    May    Jun

                                                                                      Source: Jan-Jun 2020, individuals   Source: Chartbeat Jan-Jun 2020, Unique Users
All major news programmes
                                                                                                                                          486k
                                                                                                                                                            480k
Average audience
Throughout these extraordinary first
six months, STV News at Six has                                                                                          415k
remained Scotland’s most watched
news programme.                                                                                                                                                               381k

STV News at Six has seen a 25% growth
in average audience YoY to 486,000.                                                                                                                                                                                                280k
                                                                                     299k

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       147k
                                                         161k

                                                                        94k
                                            84k
                                                                                                                                                                                           64k

                                                                                                       25k
                                                                                                                                                                                                          18k                                            17k
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              10k

                                        Good Morning      BBC      ITV Lunchtime   BBC News        5 News at 5        BBC News          STV News          Reporting        ITV Evening   Channel 4      The Nine      ITV News   BBC News   Sky News   BBC News
                                           Britain     Breakfast        News        at One                              at Six            at Six          Scotland            News         News      (BBC Scotland)     at Ten    at Ten    Channel*   Channel*

                                                                                    Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, Individuals, Mon-Fri   *Average audience across a day (09:30-24:00)
One billion minutes of STV Player content                 Liar, STV
were watched in the first half of the year.

                                              Image TBC

Digital
YoY overview                                                                                                                          Top programmes
In 2018, it took the whole year for       The growth of the STV Player has                                                            Soaps and dramas dominate the                                 Total Streams   Avg. per episode
1 billion minutes of content to be        been driven by the STV Player’s addition                                                    STV Player top 10. White House Farm
consumed on the STV Player; this year     to the Sky platform and a big uplift in                                                     was the first ever drama to reach 1     Coronation Street         4.2m              40k
it has been achieved in half the time.    our acquired content.                                                                       million streams.
                                                                                                                                                                              Emmerdale                 3.1m              28k
During the key period of lockdown, live                                                                                               Viewers relish being able to binge
viewing was up 81% across the multiple                                                                                                boxsets, with over 100+ boxsets now     White House Farm          1.3m             215k
STV Player live channels.                                                                                                             available on the STV Player.
                                                                                                                                                                              Liar                      1.1m             176k
                                                                                                                                      4 of the top 10 best watched shows
                                            H1 2019       H1 2020      % Change                                                       were acquired or bespoke to the         The Slap                  924k             116k
                                                                                                                                      STV Player.
Total long form streams                      19.7m         33.2m          69%
                                                                                                                                                                              Take The High Road/
                                                                                                                                                                                                        794k              3k
Total VoD streams                            16.4m         28.2m          72%                                                                                                 High Road
Total live streams                            3.3m          5.0m          52%                                                                                                 Janet King                746k              31k
Total ad impressions available               211m          290m           37%
                                                                                                                                                                              Acceptable Risk           680k             113k
Total content time spent (mins)              569m          1059m          86%
Total registrations                           3.1m          3.6m          16%                                                                                                 Flesh and Blood           666k             167k

STV registered active STV Player users        584k          679k          16%                                                                                                 Bancroft                  585k             195k

                                                                                          Source: Adobe Analytics Jan-Jun 2020, STV   Source: Adobe Analytics Jan-Jun 2020,
                                                                                     Database Jan-Jun 2020, Freewheel Jan-Jun 2020    Freewheel Jan-Jun 2020
Genre profiles                                                              Streams by platform
                                                                            The STV Player is now available in all
                                                                            homes on all platforms. The addition
                                                                            of Sky in Q4 of 2019 has led to an
                                                                            additional 800k homes being able to
                                                                            access Channel 3 content.

         Soap   Drama   Entertainment
                                                                            H1 2020
Male     27%    33%         32%
                                                                                            23%                        13%              12%             10%         10%       9%         7%     17%
Female   73%    67%         68%

ABC1     39%    51%         42%
                                                                            H1 2019
C2DE     61%    49%         58%
                                                                                    15%                        18%                     16%                11%         9%           10%        21%

16-34    20%    20%         34%
                                                                              Sky         Fire TV     iOS      Virgin Media      Freeview     Android         Web    Other*
35-54    37%    37%         38%

55+      43%    43%         28%

                                        Source: STV Database Jan-Jun 2020   Source: Adobe Analytics Jan-Jun 2020, Jan-Jun 2019
Streams by device
                                                                                                                                                      Acceptable Risk, STV Player

The move towards viewing the STV                    The larger screen usage is conducive
Player on the big TV screen continues               to shared viewing – just like traditional
– connected TVs now account for 7                   TV viewing.
out of 10 streams.

H1 2020

               22%                    7%                                                   71%

FY 2019

                      31%                            11%                                            58%

  Mobile App         Responsive Web        Connected TV App

                                                                                                 Source: Adobe Analytics Jan-Jun 2020, Jan-Dec 2019
STV Player developments
Bancroft, STV

                Apple TV                                     New live channels
                The STV Player is now on Apple TV            In the first half of this year, we have
                devices, allowing users access to our live   added 5 new live channels to the STV
                channels and on-demand content.              Player, allowing 24 hour streaming.
                                                             These include action sport (EDGEsport),
                UK-wide                                      concerts and music documentaries
                The STV Player will be available UK-wide     (Quello), thought-provoking science
                from July, in a further 3.7 million Virgin   fiction (DUST), adorable pets (The Pet
                Media TV homes and on a further 6            Collective) and hilarious compilations
                million Freeview Play boxes from             (FailArmy).
                August 2020.
                                                             Live channels page
                New ‘End of Play’ (EoP)                      The creation of a channels page makes
                The updated design allows for up to          all live stream channels available in one
                three options to be chosen by viewers        place. Programme information for Dust
                at the end of a programme: live stream,      and Quello channels have also been
                the next episode in the series or another    added into the STV Player TV guide.
                popular show in the same category.
Acquisitions
                                                                                                                  Janet King, STV Player

In the first half of 2020, acquired
content has seen significant growth
and now makes up 22% of VoD viewing
on the STV Player.

Acquired content streams have helped
drive the 72% VoD growth that the STV
Player has seen in the first half of 2020.

In June there were more streams for
acquired and archive content than
                                                                                                        48%
channel 3 content on STV Player.

It would take 62 full days to watch                                                        58%          13%
all of the acquired and archive content
on the STV Player.                                                           65%
                                                                                                        39%
                                                                                           15%
   Ch3 content                                                                8%
                                                                76%
   STV/Archive content
                                                   81%                       27%           27%
   Acquired content                                              6%
                                             84%
                                                   4%
                                             5%                 18%
                                                   15%
                                             11%

                                             Jan   Feb          Mar           Apr          May          Jun

                                                   Source: Adobe Analytics Jan-Jun 2020; FreeWheel Jan-Jun 2020
STV Productions: bringing the highest               Inside
                                                       Antiques
                                                           Central
                                                                Road
                                                                   Station,
                                                                      Trip, STV Productions
quality programming to Scotland, the
UK and abroad.

                                        Image TBC

Productions
Shows
Inside Central Station, STV Productions

                                                                                      Avg. Audience   TVR   Share %   Reach
                                           Celebrity Catchphrase (ITV)                    4.3m         7      25      13.3m
                                           Antiques Road Trip S20 (BBC1)                  2.0m         3      19      14.3m
                                           Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC2)            1.2m         2      7       14.6m
                                           Inside Central Station S1 (BBC2)               674k         1      4       3.6m
                                           Sean’s Very Scottish Hogmanay (STV)            301k         6      18      572k
                                           Sean’s Scottish New Year (STV)                 277k         6      16      301k
                                           Inside Central Station S2 (BBC Scotland)       132k         3      7       527k

                                          STV Productions have been nominated
                                          for multiple awards over the last six
                                          months including 3 BAFTA TV awards.

                                          Elizabeth is Missing has won 4 awards
                                          so far: BAFTA TV for Leading Actress,
                                          RTS Scotland for Best Writer, UK CAMEO
                                          for Best Book to Screen and Banff World
                                          Media Festival Rockie Award for Best
                                          Television Movie.

56                                        Source: BARB Jan-Jun 2020, individuals.
                                          CART S8 (7 Oct 2019 - 28 Feb 2020)
Commissions
                                                                                      Diana vs The Tabloids, STV Productions

It has been a tough six months for STV    BBC1
Productions as all filming had to cease   Antiques Road Trip
due to Covid-19, however the team have    Series 21 & 22
been working hard in the background.
                                          BBC2
The Channel 5 royal documentaries have    Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
all been produced during lockdown,        Series 10
using archived footage.
                                          Channel 4
Catchphrase will be the first             It Pays To Behave
entertainment programme to return
to production after lockdown: filming     Channel 5
will commence on 10 new episodes on       Diana vs The Tabloids
the July 6th, with a number of safety     The Palace and the Press: Held to Account
protocols in place for contributors       Young Royals Under Fire
and crew.                                 Royals Behaving Badly

                                          Discovery/STV
                                          Clear Out Cash In

                                          ITV
                                          Catchphrase Catchiest Moments
                                          Celebrity Catchphrase
                                          Series 5

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Coming up
July                                        August                                    September                                 October                                    November                                December
STV sets out a renewed commitment           To celebrate 40 years of the Take the     STV’s half-year results are released on   Big month of sport on STV, with the        New entertainment show Don’t Rock       A huge milestone for Coronation Street,
as an employer, public service              High Road, a tribute show Scotland        September 1st.                            completion of the Rugby Six Nations        The Boat launches in early November,    as the show celebrates its 60th birthday.
broadcaster and producer to improve         Loves High Road airs on August 12th                                                 matches and the French Open Men’s          and is stripped Monday-Friday.
the representation of Black, Asian and      at 8pm.                                   STV News at Six returns to its fully      tennis final.                                                                      The Real Full Monty On Ice is a brand
Minority Ethnic people, both on and                                                   regionalised format, with our central                                                The hugely popular I’m A Celebrity...   new entertainment show that is sure to
off screen.                                 A series of four short films, entitled    belt programme being jointly anchored     Now in its 10th year, the STV Children’s   Get Me Out of Here! returns later in    get a 10 from the judges.
                                            Unsaid Stories, inspired by Black Lives   from Edinburgh and Glasgow. In the        Appeal has a station takeover and          the month.
Broadcasters unite to celebrate UK          Matter airs at 9pm from August            North, our programme from Aberdeen        appeal show on October 16th.
television. The unique collaboration        10th-13th.                                includes news from Dundee and Perth.
involves STV, BBC, ITV, UTV, Channel 4
and Channel 5 coming together for the       The STV Player launches UK-wide on        STV’s soaps return to pre-Covid number
first time to celebrate the role that UK    Freeview Play.                            of weekly episodes: five for Coronation
broadcasters play across our culture.                                                 Street and six for Emmerdale.
The campaign launches across all            The STV Player acquires extended
channels at 8.58pm on July 8th.             catch-up rights for up to a year on       Much anticipated three-part drama
                                            key Network titles.                       Des airs, starring David Tennant in
On July 15th, the STV Player launches                                                 a chilling portrayal of serial killer
UK-wide on Virgin Media, with over                                                    Dennis Nilsen.
1,500 hours of content.

Primal Media secures its first comission
since joining the STV Productions family:
Landmark, a 7-part series for Sky Arts.

BAFTA TV Awards on July 31st.
Glossary
Active User                             Impacts                                 Macro                                     SVoD Subscription video on demand           VoD
Anyone who has viewed content on        A measure of viewing of commercial      The total transmission area. STV Macro    Allows viewers to consume as much           A long-form stream on the STV Player
STV Player in the past 12 months.       spots. One impact is one member         area is a combination of STV Central      content as they desire on a flat rate per   that is on demand (not live).
                                        of the target audience viewing one      and STV North.                            month e.g. Netflix, Prime or NowTV.
Average Audience                        commercial. Impacts are added                                                                                                 VOSDAL Viewng on same day as live
The number of people who watched        together to give total impacts          Reach                                     Time-shifting                               Timeshifted viewing that has been
a programme. It is calculated by        delivered by a particular spot,         The estimated number or percentage        The playback audience to a video or         viewed on the same day as the original
adding together the audience for each   advertising campaign, or channel.       of people who viewed a particular         PVR/DVDR recording of a commercial,         live broadcast. It is included in the
individual minute of the programme,                                             television channel or programme in        daypart, or programme. The recording        overnight figure.
and dividing it by the programme’s      Impression                              a day/week/month.                         must be played back within 7 days of
total duration in minutes.              Each time an ad is viewed, that ad is                                             the original transmission to be counted     YoY
                                        said to have generated an impression.   Registered User                           by BARB.                                    Year-on-year.
Consolidated                            Ad impressions include display & VoD    A user of the STV Player who has signed
The final viewing figures for a         with each view counted for the period   up to use it and holds an account.        TVR Television Rating
programme. It is the sum of the live,   being measured.                                                                   One TVR is numerically equivalent to
VOSDAL and time shift audiences up to                                           Share                                     one percent of a target audience. It
7 days post-transmission.               Long form                               The percentage of the total viewing       is often used as the measure of the
                                        Full length TV programmes and ‘live’    audience watching over a given period     popularity of a programme, daypart,
CTV Connected television                simulcast viewing of a channel on the   of time. This can apply to channels,      commercial break or advertisement
Any TV that can be connected to the     STV Player.                             programmes and time periods.              by comparing its audience to the
internet and access content beyond                                                                                        population as a whole.
what is available via normal offering   Micro                                   Stream
from a cable provider.                  A sub-area of the STV Macro area,       Any content consumed on the STV
                                        comprising; STV Central, STV West,      Player generates a player stream.
                                        STV East, STV North, STV Aberdeen
                                        and STV Dundee.
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