[Mike]

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.

Was it not the ceasefire in 1994, UTV cut into their time to provide a more tailored and fitting NI perspective without telling GMTV, and GMTV retaliated by cutting their feed and forcing their programming onto UTV's transmitters and then contracting out the regional news to another firm.

Obviously these days it would be unthinkable that it would be such an issue, but GMTV owned the channel 3 licence between 6 and 9.25am, so it was a big deal to them.