Tina Campbell

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Tina Campbell (born 1970, Dundonald)^[1]^[2] 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.^[3]

Tina started off at UTV as a continuity announcer and newsreader in 1994, a role she retained for around three years. She also became a weather presenter on UTV Live from 1994 to 2006, and began reporting for UTV Live in 1997. Tina hosted the 1997 and 1998 series of What Next?, a programme for school leavers, and she also appeared getting her hair cut in a UTV station ident in 1998.

In 1999, she 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 27 November 2003, the first day of UTV's Northern Ireland Assembly election coverage, Tina reprised her role as a continuity announcer and was seen during the morning and afternoon presenting in-vision links promoting the station's election coverage. On 8 March 2007, the day the Assembly election results were declared, Tina presented news updates during UTV's coverage of the election results.

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.^[4] In 2008, Tina was announced as the new presenter of UTV's Late and Live series.^[5]

Tina is married to former Downtown Radio presenter John Paul Ballantine (the former husband of her colleague Pamela Ballantine) and she has two daughters and a son.^[6]^[7]