GMTV Northern Ireland

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GMTV Northern Ireland
Genre	News
Presented by	Lindsey Armstrong, Sonia Butterworth, Aideen Kennedy
Country of origin	Northern Ireland
Production
Producer(s)	Macmillan Media
Running time	3-5 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	GMTV (Northern Ireland)
Original run	January 2, 1995 – present
Chronology
Related shows	GMTV Grampian, GMTV Scotland

GMTV 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 ITN and 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.

Macmillan Media took over from STV as the GMTV regional news provider in the Central Scotland and Northern Scotland regions.^[1]

Contents 1 Presenters 1.1 Former presenters 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Presenters

• Lindsey Armstrong
• Sonia Butterworth
• Aideen Kennedy

[edit] Former presenters

• Vicki Hawthorne (now with UTV)
• Emma Johnston
• Barbara McCann (now with BBC Northern Ireland)
• Siobhan McGarry (now with UTV)
• Kirsteen O'Sullivan (now with GMTV Scotland)
• Nicola Thompson (now with BBC )
• Patricia Wilkinson (now with BBC Northern Ireland)

[edit] References

1. ^ "Irish firm to provide news as GMTV pulls plug on STV", The Scotsman, 7 April 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-01. 

[edit] External links

• gm.tv
• Macmillan Media

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