[radiorebel]

It would happens with, say, election or political coverage in the nations - I seem to recall it happened semi- frequently on both BBC NI and UTV in the late 1990s around the time building up to the Good Friday Agreement.

There was of course the infamous incident where UTV opted out of GMTV to cover a breaking news story which resulted in them losing the local GMTV news contract for a long time.

I remember it happening in either 2013 or 2015 during Barack Obamas visit to Belfast, they opted out of Daybreak/GMB can’t remember which one.