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Yes, that was it. It differs from pre-emption I guess in that UTV, of course, were not legally entitled to do what they did, as they didn’t have a broadcasting license for that time slot. It had lasting impact in that for nearly two decades GMTV/ITV Breakfast wouldn’t deal with UTV, and farmed out the NI news to a series of companies (first Reuters, who produced GMTV’s national news at the time, then ITN, then MacMillan) before, having forgotten at this stage why they had the row in the first place, they finally handed it back to UTV in 2013.