GMTV Northern Ireland

Infobox Television
show_name = GMTV Northern Ireland


caption =
genre = News
runtime = 3-5 minutes
creator =
presenter =
network = GMTV
(Northern Ireland)
country = Northern Ireland
first_aired = January 2, 1995
last_aired = present
producer = Macmillan Media
related = 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. [cite news
title = Irish firm to provide news as GMTV pulls plug on STV
publisher = The Scotsman
date = 7 April, 2007
url = http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=536232007
accessdate = 2007-08-01]

The team

Current presenters

*Aideen Kennedy (lead newscaster)
*Lindsey Armstrong
*Sonia Butterworth

Former presenters

*Vicki Hawthorne (now with UTV)
*Emma Johnston (now a nation-wide reporter for the station)
*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)

References

External links

* [http://www.gm.tv gm.tv]
* [http://www.macmillanmedia.co.uk Macmillan Media]