GMTV News Northern Ireland

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GMTV News Northern Ireland
Genre	News
Creator(s)	Macmillan Media
Starring	Nicola Thompson Aideen McGaughey Lindsey Armstrong
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	5 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	GMTV (Northern Ireland)
Original run	2 January 1995 – present
Chronology
Related shows	GMTV

GMTV News Northern Ireland is the regional news strand for Northern Ireland provided for the ITV breakfast station GMTV.

Unlike the other ITV regions, UTV, the ITV contractor for Northern Ireland do not provide regional news broadcasts during GMTV. This is due to a dispute between UTV and GMTV which dates back to 1994 when UTV opted out of the national breakfast contractor to provide live coverage of the breaking news of the Combined Loyalist ceasefire.

In January 1995, GMTV contracted the service out to Reuters, who then provided the GMTV national news service. The service was later produced by ITN and currently, as of 2005, is produced by Macmillan Media, a company founded by former BBC correspondent Michael MacMillan, In return, UTV never purposely promote any GMTV programming, and in their last news broadcast of the day, plug their next bulletin as being at around 11am, not mentioning the GMTV local news.

[edit] Main GMTV Northern Ireland news presenters

• Lindsey Armstrong
• Emma Johnston
• Aideen McGaughey
• Kirsteen O'Sullivan
• Nicola Thompson

[edit] Former presenters

• Vicki Hawthorne (now with UTV)
• Barbara McCann (now with BBC Northern Ireland)
• Siobhan McGarry (now with UTV)
• Patricia Wilkinson (now with BBC Northern Ireland)

[edit] External links

• GM.TV
• Macmillan Media