Ireland’s best known TV and radio broadcaster Gay Byrne, aka Gaybo, has died, age 85. In a statement, his family said: “It is with sadness that Kathleen, Crona and Suzy wish to announce that their beloved Gay has died peacefully at home today, surrounded by his family. We wish to thank everybody for their love […]
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Sky extends content deal with Warner
Sky and Warner Media have expanded their European partnership to include new content and co-productions. The two companies will extend their content roll out across Sky’s European markets, allowing Sky Ireland and Now TV customers to continue to watch exclusive content from HBO, Warner Bros and Turner channels for some years to come. Sky and […]
Sky Q lines up O’Kane and Ashmawy for social ads
Sky Ireland has hired comedian Deirdre O’Kane and TV personality Baz Ashmawy to star in its new social media campaign for Sky Q. In the first video, O’Kane, who starred in Moone Boy, dons the apparel of an empress to demo the pause and carry on feature on Sky Q while she and Ashmawy get […]
Carty to head Virgin Media’s agency business
Frankie Carty is the new head of agency business at Virgin Media Solutions (VMS) with responsibility for strategic leadership, management and development of agency trading. Carty joins from Core, where he was director of Core Investment, headed up by Eddie O’Mahony. Gavan Byrne continues as head of trading, with four other appointments confirmed by VMS. […]
AIG’s GAA ads pitched by Along Came a Spider
AIG Ireland has released two new TV ads as part of their #EffortIsEqual campaign, the first time the US insurer has released a TV burst to support Irish sport and the brand’s Dublin GAA teams’ shirt sponsorship. The campaign, created by Along Came a Spider, highlights the effort, commitment and dedication among both men and […]
Virgin Media reveals TV’s autumn highlights
Virgin Media Television (VMTV) has launched a new season of programmes with four original and returning Irish drama series, major live sport, new entertainment and factual series, eight hours of live studio content every week day and news. Original Irish drama and new formats take centre stage with Adrian Dunbar returning for season two of […]
Improved Sky Go app rolls out
BSkyB is launching a new application which combines the existing Sky Q and Sky Go app features, allowing customers to watch shows from Sky, Virgin Media, RTE and more in a single, easy-to-use experience. The new Sky Go app features simple, one-touch destinations in a new UI including home, TV guide, browse, downloads and recordings. […]
Sky to double production of new original shows
With the backing of new owners Comcast, under the Sky Studios’ plan, Sky’s investment in originals is set to more than double over the next five years. The announcement comes after the screening of Chernobyl, the most successful Sky original production ever, a record number of Bafta winners for Sky, as well popular mini-series Das […]
Over €247m spent on TV advertising
Total advertising spend on TV in 2018 was €247,520,977, an increase of five per cent on 2017 spend figures. Television Audience Measurement (TAM) claims the performance surpasses the wider trend of total ad revenue increases in Irish media, averaging 2.2 per cent. It means that with the growth TV now has a 23.8 per cent […]
Virgin Media Television to use Sky’s AdSmart tech
Virgin Media Television (VMT) and Sky have agreed a deal which will allow the Liberty Global subsidiary use Sky’s AdSmart technology where TV viewers are shown different ads depending on demographics and location. Adsmart trials will start on Virgin Media One – formerly TV3 – by the end of the year and on Liberty Global’s […]
Sky shows Riviera trailer ahead of May roll out
Following on from the recent Sky 2019 Content Showcase in Dublin, a trailer for the second season of Riviera which starts on Sky Atlantic on May 23 has been released. Behind every great fortune is a great crime and season two of Riviera sees Georgina (Julia Stiles) trying to get away with murder as she fights […]
Sky to show every live Premier League game
Sky and Premier Sports have agreed an exclusive channel distribution partnership in Ireland which will see Premier Sports’ full suite of sporting fixtures available to Sky customers from this summer. The move follows a previous announcement from Sky in October last year which confirmed Sky as the exclusive distribution partner for BT Sport in Ireland. […]
Ion Solutions behind new-look RTÉ News studio
Irish owned audio-visual designer Ion Solutions created and installed the €1.4 million state-of-the-art technology in the RTÉ News studio, home to the Six One News, Nine O’Clock News, One O’Clock News, The Week in Politics, Budget coverage, Referendum results coverage, and other special events live programme coverage such as commemorations. Studio 3 is the busiest TV […]
