Viv Lumsden

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Vivien Dale Victoria Lumsden (born 22 November 1952 in Edinburgh) is a former television presenter. She was a newsreader on the Scottish TV (STV Central) news programme, Scotland Today for nine years. Before Scottish TV, she worked on BBC Scotland's Reporting Scotland from 1984 to 1989.

She co-presented The Home Show on STV with her husband Alan Douglas for six years and won a BAFTA for the Best Special Interest Programme in 1997. {{cite web | url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/homes-gardens/features/at-home-with-viv-lumsden-1-2748327 | title=At home with... Viv Lumsden | publisher=Johnston Publishing Ltd. | work=Scotland on Sunday | date=20 January 2013 | accessdate=8 July 2015 | author=Reid, Fiona}}

She started her career at Radio Clyde, before working as an AA traffic reporter, and then joining the BBC as a Breakfast Time newsreader.

Lumsden also fronted coverage of the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 for BBC Scotland and was the host who read out the Scottish votes for the BBC Song For Europe 1985 from the old BBC studios in Glasgow.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

During the early 1990s, she presented her own chat show, Viv on Sunday.{{cite web|last=Ritchie |first=Maggie |url=http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/now-former-bbc-newsreader-viv-8217810 |title=Where are they now? Former BBC newsreader Viv Lumsden - Scotland Now |publisher=scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk |date=2016-06-18 |accessdate=2018-05-20}}

A director of Saga Radio in Glasgow until it was bought over to become Smooth FM, Lumsden is on the board of the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in the city.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} She was restaurant critic for Scottish Field magazine, and occasionally writes and broadcasts on aspects of the hospitality industry, travel and home style and design.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}