UTV Live
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| UTV Live | |
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| Format | News |
| Created by | UTV |
| Starring | Lynda Bryans Tina Campbell Paul Clark |
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| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes UTV News bulletins: Varies |
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| Original channel | UTV |
| Original run | January 4, 1993 – present |
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| Related shows | UTV Life UTV News |
UTV Live is the name of the flagship news programme in the UTV region in Northern Ireland. The first edition of UTV Live was transmitted on Monday 4 January 1993, replacing the main evening bulletin Six Tonight and shorter bulletins Ulster Newstime.
Until February 2007, all news bulletins broadcast on UTV were branded as UTV Live. Now, only the hour-long weekday evening bulletin is referred to as UTV Live, while all other bulletins are branded as UTV News.
Until 1999, the weekday evening bulletin was titled UTV Live at Six, while other bulletins were subtitled Morning News, Lunchtime News, The Afternoon News, Early Evening News (used for weekend evening bulletins) and Late News.
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[edit] On Air
UTV Live/UTV News airs seven days a week:
Weekdays
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UTV News bulletins are not transmitted during GMTV. In January 1995, GMTV began providing their own regional news bulletins for viewers in Northern Ireland, initially via Reuters and presently Macmillan Media.
Weekends
UTV News airs four bulletins throughout the weekend; two on Saturday and two on Sunday. The broadcast time of each bulletin varies, but they are usually shown in the morning/early afternoon and early evening on both days.
[edit] Programme format
[edit] UTV Live
UTV Live airs at 18.00 from Monday to Friday, preceding the ITV Evening News at 18.30.
From the programme's launch on Monday 4 January 1993 to Friday 5 March 1999, UTV's main evening bulletin ran for one hour at 18.00. Then, following the schedule changes which saw the introduction of the ITV Evening News on Monday 9 March 1999, UTV Live ran as a half-hour bulletin from 18.00-18.30. Feature reports and light-hearted stories were now shifted to a separate programme, UTV Life, which ran before the main evening news bulletin. UTV Live and UTV Live were merged into one hour-long programme, running from 17.30-18.30, on Monday 8 April 2002. This format was retained for over five years, and the UTV Live and UTV Life evening programmes were split into separate programmes again in September 2007.
The weather forecast is broadcast at around 17.55, between UTV Life and UTV Live. As well as the forecast, this section also includes the "Weather Watchers" birthday greetings, and, when Frank Mitchell is presenting the forecast, the "Weather Watching Camera" cryptic clue game.
Since September 2006, the sports section of the main evening bulletin has been sponsored by airline fly.be.
Weekday editions of UTV News are presented by one of the UTV Live presenters, apart from the late bulletin which is presented by the on-duty continuity announcer. Weekend editions of UTV News are hosted by the on-duty continuity announcer, with one of UTV's sports presenters appearing with a sports round-up on the Saturday (latterly Sunday) evening bulletin.
A separate sports bulletin, Sport on Sunday, was broadcast following the Sunday evening edition of UTV News from September 1999 to early 2007. This bulletin was separate from the Sunday evening bulletin as it was sponsored by the Daily Mirror.
[edit] UTV Life
On Monday 9 March 1999, due to a relaunch of the networked ITV News service, UTV created separate programmes for its news and features elements of the main evening news bulletin. Features reports, usually on the topics of health and the arts, as well as light-hearted stories, were now transmitted as UTV Life, running from 17.30-18.00.
UTV Life had its own team of presenters and reporters, and had a different theme tune, opening title sequence and studio set to UTV Live. The dual programmes ran together until Friday 29 March 2002.
The UTV Life branding for the features section of UTV Live returned to on-air use on Monday 3 September 2007. The features element of the programme became a separate programme in order to accommodate a programme sponsorship deal with Brennan's bread. The relaunch of UTV Life saw the programme gain a different theme tune, opening title sequence and Aston design to the existing UTV Live graphics package.
[edit] The Team
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[edit] UTV News presenters
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UTV's other continuity announcer, Julian Simmons, is noted for not presenting news bulletins on UTV, which he stopped doing in the early 1990s. However, on Tuesday 3 April 2007, Julian presented the 2250 UTV News bulletin, what is believed to be the first news bulletin he has read on UTV in over 15 years.[1]
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[edit] References
- ^ YouTube: Julian Simmons presenting UTV News; uploaded 3 April 2007, accessed 26 March 2008
- ^ Northern Ireland Executive: "Statement issued by the Commissioners Designate for Victims and Survivors", dated 28 January 2008
- ^ BBC News: "Victims' posts details revealed", dated 28 January 2008
- ^ Northern Ireland Executive: "Northern Ireland Screen gets new board members"; dated 21 December 2007, retrieved 10 January 2008
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