Macmillan Media is a multimedia company covering the UK and

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

, working in

Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

and

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, and owned by former BBC and ITN foreign correspondent Michael Macmillan.

''Daybreak'' regional news

Until January 2013, Macmillan Media produced '' Daybreak Northern Ireland'' and ''

Daybreak Scotland ''Daybreak Scotland'' (previously ''GMTV Scotland'') was the regional news broadcaster for the two ITV regions in northern and central Scotland, provided for the ITV breakfast station ITV Breakfast. The bulletins were produced for '' Daybreak'' ...

'' bulletins on weekdays at 06.15, 07.15 and 08.15. UTV, the local ITV contractor had not produced the bulletin since December 1994 due to a dispute between GMTV and UTV. UTV was replaced during GMTV (later '' Daybreak'') by

Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was esta ...

, followed by ITN, then Macmillan Media. Macmillan Media began providing the GMTV news bulletins in Central and Northern Scotland on 3 December 2007. The two bulletins, both known as ''Daybreak Scotland'' (previously ''GMTV Scotland'') shared the same team, and were broadcast from the same building in Glasgow. It took over the contract when GMTV did not renew STV's contract to supply early morning ''

Scotland Today ''Scotland Today'' is a Scottish regional news programme covering Central Scotland, produced by STV Central (formerly Scottish Television). Despite its name suggesting a national remit, the programme was actually limited to stories around STV's C ...

'' and '' North Today'' bulletins. STV had supplied GMTV with its news since the breakfast channel took over from

TV-am TV-am was a TV company that broadcast the ITV franchise for breakfast television in the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 until 31 December 1992. The station was the UK's first national operator of a commercial breakfast television franchis ...

in 1993. Macmillan Media lost the contracts to provide local ''Daybreak'' bulletins from January 2013, when the contracts were re-awarded to UTV and STV. Macmillan Media has produced content for a range of purposes including creative documentaries, broadcast features, animated explainer videos, corporate marketing and promotion, health and safety training and induction training videos. The company has previously provided online news bulletins for newspapers including '' Belfast Telegraph''. The company produces news bulletins for

Q Radio Q Radio was an online, DAB and DTV radio station, broadcasting on digital television across the UK and online. The station launched in June 2008 as an alternative to the UK's rock and alternative stations, with a strong relationship with Q ...

stations in Northern Ireland.

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