STV2 - owned and operated by STV Group plc - launched on 24th April 2017.
Originally two separate local channels - STV Edinburgh and STV Glasgow - they were consolidated as one local network with additional content for STV's three other local licences for Dundee, Aberdeen and Ayr which had been awarded back in March 2015.
STV celebrated 60 years of broadcasting on Thursday 31st August 2017, and STV2 showed special idents featuring clips of past STV programmes and the channel's symbols over the years.