 He was invited to work for the station by station controller Sidney Perry after participating in a penalty competition for the "Sportscast" programme  and became the main sports anchor on UTV's evening magazine programme, "Good Evening Ulster".In his autobiography, Fullerton revealed he almost accepted a sports reporter position at Granada Television in 1978, but decided to remain in Northern Ireland for the sake of his family.He also disclosed the controversy caused by rumours of an affair with "Good Evening Ulster" presenting colleague Gloria Hunniford, which were untrue.