[MLehon]

Quite a shame for UTV Live who I expect would have been presenting live from stormont for interviews with the first ministers. As the BBC went with regional news, Newsline got the exclusive with their interviews with first ministers this evening.

UTV have now also lost the weekly "View from Stormont" programme this evening which was due on air at 10.45pm and has been replaced by Peston. So on an important news day in NI news coverage on UTV Live is down to a mere 15 minutes if that. I'm not taking away of course from the 6pm News announcement tonight from Buckingham Palace but ITV as it has been said in previous posts seemed to have got this one wrong. Possibly View from Stormont will get rescheduled later in the week but I would imagine many higher profile guests had been lined up for tonight's programme and the news will have moved on tomorrow given it's the first sitting of new NI Assembly. Slightly off topic but worth a mention that BBC Newsline tonight had both main presenters on air in the one programme with Declan Harvey in studio and Tara Mills in Parliament Buildings, Declan having also presented 4-6pm on Radio Ulster.