Good Morning Ulster

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Good Morning Ulster is the flagship Northern Irish radio breakfast news programme BBC Radio Ulster, broadcast weekdays from 6:30am to 9am and produced by BBC News Northern Ireland.

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The main presenting team is Sarah Brett and Chris Buckler: [1] this core team is augmented with Joel Taggart, Mark Devenport, Declan Harvey and Jayne McCormack.

Good Morning Ulster based Studio 4 at the BBC's Broadcasting House in Belfast. Unlike the other main studios at Broadcasting House, Studio 4 sits within the newsroom itself.

In November 2019 Noel Thompson and Karen Patterson both announced they would be stepping down from Good Morning Ulster, effective from January 2020.

It is often cited as one of the most listened to breakfast radio programmes in Northern Ireland.

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References

  1. "Chris Buckler and Sarah Brett are the new Good Morning Ulster presenters". BBC News. 17 February 2020.