STV may refer to:

Television

Satellite television Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems ...

Direct-broadcast satellite television Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems ...

(DBSTV) *

Subscription television Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, b ...

Channels and stations

STV (TV channel) STV is a free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the STV Group. It is made up of the Central Scotland and Northern Scotland ITV public broadcaster licences, formerly known as Scottish Television (now legally ...

, the brand name of ITV Network broadcasters in central and northern Scotland **

Scottish Television Scottish Television (now legally known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV (TV network), ITV network franchisee for Central Belt, Central Scotland. The channel — the largest of the three ITV franchises in Scotland — has been in operation si ...

, now legally known as STV Central Ltd and part of the STV network **

Grampian Television Grampian Television was the original name of the Channel 3 service for the north of Scotland founded in 1961 and which, decades later, was merged with the Central Belt channel STV. The northern region's coverage area includes the Northern Isle ...

, now legally known as STV North Ltd and part of the STV network *

Shanghai Television Shanghai Television () was a TV station based in Shanghai, China that was founded in 1958. Its old web site address was www.stv.sh.cn. In 2001, it was merged with Radio Shanghai, Eastern Radio Shanghai, Oriental Television Station and Shanghai Cabl ...

, a TV station in Shanghai, China *

STV (TV station) STV is an Australian television station licensed to and serving the regions surrounding Mildura, Victoria, owned and operated by the WIN Corporation and part of the WIN Television network. The station commenced transmissions on 27 November 19 ...

, a TV station in Mildura, Victoria, Australia *

STV AS STV AS, or just STV, is an Estonian cable television company founded in 1991. It is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. Subdivisions * STV AS – DVB-C/cable television and Internet service provider An Internet service provider (ISP) ...

, Estonian television and Internet company *

Samanyolu TV Samanyolu TV was an international Turkish language TV station with its headquarters in Istanbul. The channel is known for its closeness to Fethullah Gülen, the leader of the Gülen movement. Samanyolu TV was previously owned by Yayıncılık A. ...

, a defunct Turkish television channel *

Sapporo Television Broadcasting is a TV station of Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) in Hokkaidō, Japan. Headquartered in Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaidō prefecture, the TV station was established on April 8, 1958. It is usually ca ...

, a TV station in Hokkaidō, Japan and its associated radio station * Saskatchewan Television, the former on-air brand of CFRE-DT Regina and Saskatoon *

Slovenská televízia Slovenská televízia (; "Slovak Television"; STV) was a state-owned public television organisation in Slovakia. It was created in 1991 as the Slovak part of the former Czechoslovak Television and was headquartered in Bratislava. It was funded ...

, a Slovak public television network * Spider Televízió, a Hungarian TV channel * Social TV, a channel operated by

UNTV (Philippines) UNTV (currently known as UNTV Networks) is the flagship Philippine television network of the Progressive Broadcasting Corporation (known on air as UNTV-PBC), together with Breakthrough and Milestones Productions International (known on air as ...

* Sunda TV, now , an Indonesian television station based in Bandung * Multi-Choice TV, formerly known as Subscription Television (STV) *

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

Student Television * STV (Uzbek TV channel), a defunct Uzbekistan television channel * STV-US, a defunct Bangladeshi-American television channel

Entertainment

Straight to video Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film, television series, short or special to the public immediately on home video formats rather than an initial theatrical release or television premiere. This distribution strateg ...

, a movie which was never released in theatres *

Sega Titan Video Sega is a video game developer, publisher, and hardware development company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with multiple offices around the world. The company's involvement in the arcade game industry began as a Japan-based distributor of coin- ...

(ST-V), an arcade system board used by Sega in the mid-1990s

Transport

Single-track vehicle A single-track vehicle is a vehicle that leaves a single ground track as it moves forward. Single-track vehicles usually have little or no lateral stability when stationary but develop it when moving forward or controlled. In the case of wheeled v ...

, a vehicle that leaves a single ground track as it moves forward * STV, the MRT station abbreviation for Stevens MRT station, Singapore *

Surat Airport Surat Airport is an international airport serving Surat, Gujarat, India. It is located in Magdalla, situated 12 km (6.4 mi) from the city centre. It has a total area of 770 acres (312 ha) and is the second busiest airport in Gujarat ...

, India, by IATA code

Politics

Single transferable vote The single transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vot ...

, a system where a voter specifies their order of preference of the candidates, and those preferences are used to transfer votes that were originally given to candidates who are eliminated during the count *

Straight-ticket voting In political science, straight-ticket voting or straight-party voting refers to the practice of voting for every candidate that a political party has on a general election ballot. In some states, ballots may offer a straight-ticket voting option, ...

, the practice of voting for every candidate that a political party has on a general election ballot, or a mechanism which enables voters to vote for that party's candidates in multiple simultaneous elections

Other uses

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, sometimes known simply as Saint Vincent or SVG, is an island country in the eastern Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the south ...

, UNDP country code *

STV Group STV Group plc (formerly known as Scottish Television plc, Scottish Media Group plc and SMG plc) is a media company based in Glasgow, Scotland. Beginning as a television broadcaster in 1957, the company expanded into newspapers, advertising and r ...

, a media holding company based in Glasgow, Scotland * STV Inc., an American civil engineering firm *

STV Horst-Emscher STV Horst-Emscher was a German association football club from the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club's greatest success has been to qualify for the 1950 German football championship, where it was knocked out by SpVgg Fürt ...

, a defunct German association football club *

St V Saint Verhaegen (; ), commonly shortened to St V, is a holiday for freethinking university students in Brussels, Belgium. It takes place annually on 20 November and commemorates the founding of the Free University of Brussels on 20 November ...

, holiday celebrating the founding of the Free University in Brussels, Belgium *

Subjective theory of value The subjective theory of value (STV) is an theory of value (economics), economic theory for explaining how the value of goods and services are not only set but also how they can fluctuate over time. The contrasting system is typically known as the ...

, an economic theory *

Ship prefix A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/na ...