Tina Campbell
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Tina Campbell is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist, who is currently a presenter and reporter for UTV Live.
Tina, a former student of journalism at the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education, was a former reporter and newsreader for Downtown Radio in her teens. She also worked at BBC Radio Ulster as a Traffic and Travel presenter.
Tina started off at UTV as a continuity announcer in 1994, a role she retained for around three years. She also became a weather presenter on UTV Live, a role she still performs occasionally on the programme.
Tina hosted the 1997 and 1998 series of What Next?, a programme for school leavers, and was seen getting her hair cut in a UTV station ident in 1998.
In 1999, Tina joined the presenting and reporting team for UTV Life, the features programme which preceded UTV Live, and she remains a regular presenter and reporter for the programme. She also read the UTV regional results on the 2000 Record of the Year programme. In 2001, Tina began presenting the main UTV Live bulletin at 6.00pm on occasions.
On Thursday 27th November 2003, the first day of UTV's Northern Ireland Assembly election coverage, Tina reprised her role as a continuity announcer and could be seen during the morning and afternoon presenting in-vision links promoting the station's election coverage.
On her return to UTV after the birth of her third child in February 2007, Tina was appointed as the second female anchor of UTV Live to replace Kate Smith. She usually co-hosts the Thursday and Friday editions.
Tina is married with two daughters and a son.
