[1][2] It was owned and operated by STV Group plc in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University.

STV were awarded local TV licences in January 2013 to operate two digital television channels, under the working titles of GTV and ETV, in Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively, for up to 12 years.

[4] STV Edinburgh launched at 7pm on Monday 12 January 2015, originally airing every day from midday until around midnight.

The two city channels then began to share the majority of programming, with most STV Edinburgh productions also broadcast on its sister station in Glasgow.

On Monday 24 April 2017, with the launch of STV City channels in Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee, the network was merged and relaunched as STV2.