Daybreak Northern Ireland

Daybreak Northern Ireland
Daybreak N. Ireland's CSO set, Oct. 2011 (pictured is presenter, Maura O'Brien)
Also known as	GMTV Northern Ireland (2005 (2005)-2010 (2010))
Genre	Regional News
Country of origin	Northern Ireland, UK
Language(s)	English
Production
Location(s)	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Running time	2 minutes
Production company(s)	Macmillan Media
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV Breakfast (via UTV)
Original run	2005 (2005) – present
Chronology
Related shows	Daybreak Scotland
External links
Production website

Daybreak Northern Ireland is the regional news strand for Northern Ireland provided for the ITV breakfast station ITV Breakfast.

Unlike the other ITV regions, UTV - the ITV contractor for Northern Ireland - do not provide regional news broadcasts during Daybreak (previously 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 in breach of their broadcasting licence to provide live coverage of the breaking news of the Combined Loyalist ceasefire.

GMTV Northern Ireland was rebranded as Daybreak Northern Ireland in September 2010, when GMTV was replaced by new breakfast programme, Daybreak. Regional bulletins air every Monday to Friday at 6.15am, 7.15am and 8.15am, and includes a look at the days main headlines, a travel news update, and a weather forecast.

Service

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 ITV Breakfast programming, and in their last news broadcast of the day, promote their next bulletin as being at 1.55pm, not mentioning the local breakfast news.

Macmillan Media took over from STV as the regional breakfast news provider in the Central Scotland and Northern Scotland regions in 2007.^[1]

The team

Current presenters/reporters

• Sonia Butterworth^[2]
• Maura O'Brien
• Paul Reilly^[3]
• Jane Veitch^[4]
• Richard Cull
• Charlie Oundo

Former presenters

Lynda Fulford Lindsey Armstrong (now with BBC Northern Ireland) Vicki Hawthorne (now freelance, appears on Sky News) Emma Johnston

Aideen Kennedy (now with UTV) Barbara McCann (now with BBC Northern Ireland) Siobhan McGarry (now with UTV)

Kirsteen O'Sullivan (Now with TV3) Nicola Thompson (now with BBC) Patricia Wilkinson (now with BBC Northern Ireland)

References

1. ^ Sheppard, Fergus (7 April 2007). "Irish firm to provide news as GMTV pulls plug on STV". Edinburgh: The Scotsman. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=536232007. Retrieved 1 August 2007. 
2. ^ "@SoniaDaybreak". Twitter. http://twitter.com/SoniaDaybreak. 
3. ^ "@PaulSReilly". Twitter. http://twitter.com/PaulSReilly. 
4. ^ "@JaneDaybreak". Twitter. http://www.twitter.com/JaneDaybreak.