Mary Regan, political reporter with the Irish Examiner, is joining UTV Ireland as political editor. Born in Galway, Regan began her career as a reporter for RTÉ before moving into politics as a weekly columnist for Village magazine. She joined the Irish Examiner in 2006, where she reported on the bank guarantee, the IMF bailout, the […]
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TG4 to show European rugby highlights
TG4 has won the rights to show European Champions Cup and Challenge Cup highlights. Coverage starts this weekend with the Sale Sharks game against Munster at 10.30pm on Saturday and Leicester Tigers v Ulster games in the Champions Cup and highlights of the European Rugby Challenge Cup fixture between Connacht and La Rochelle. Highlights of […]
Setanta to show Ireland-USA game
Setanta Sports has won the exclusive TV rights for the Republic of Ireland’s friendly game against the USA in November. Details of the advertising and broadcast sponsorship include one key spot plus 10 station ads for €1,500 or two key spots and 20 station ads for €2,750. Setanta recently secured a four-year exclusive deal with […]
Diaspora channel gets BAI approval
Irish TV has officially become Ireland’s first international channel with the signing of a contract with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). The new local and international channel targeting the global Irish diaspora began broadcasting in May and now become an official broadcaster in Ireland under a Section 71 content contract. A poll of 1,019 adults […]
Ashmawy to front Sky’s new quiz show
Baz Ashmawy will be returning to Sky 1 early next year hosting a new quiz show called The Fanatics which has just been commissioned. The series will be produced by Victory Television, a joint venture with Sony Pictures Television (SPT), and has been commissioned by Sky 1 director, Adam MacDonald, as part of prioritising the channel’s […]
Matthews-Lynch wins Sky TV scholarship
Carly Matthews-Lynch is the winner of the Sky Academy TV Scholarship run in tandem with The National Film School at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). Matthews-Lynch, 24, is a communications graduate from DCU. She takes up her place on the masters (MA) in broadcast production this week, a step towards realising […]
Pat Kenny signs for UTV Ireland
Veteran broadcaster Pat Kenny is to be part of the UTV Ireland schedule. The former RTE presenter who joined Newstalk last summer will present a current affairs show on the new channel which launches in January. Kenny’s hiring is seen as a pragmatic move by the Belfast media group in a bid to appeal to […]
Sky adds Sports News HD opt-out
Sky Sports News HD is being added to the Sky Media Ireland (SMI) channel portfolio. Sky Sports News HD rolls out breaking sports news and updates 24/7. The development gives Irish advertisers access to an audience viewing sports news in up to five times more picture detail. SMI says Sky HD customers are more likely […]
Sky News rolls out catch up
Sky News has announced the launch of its catch up TV service. The service, which sits on Sky’s On Demand platform, is available from launch to over 120,000 Sky customers in Ireland who have already connected their Sky+HD set-top box to broadband. It allows customers to get up to speed with Sky News content by […]
TV3’s new soap gets Red Rock working title
In what it has described as its “most ambitious schedule ever”, TV3 has launched outline plans for its 2015 line-up as it prepares for the arrival of the new UTV Ireland channel due on air in January. TV3 says spend on home programming exceeds 60 per cent of content budget. Red Rock is the working […]
TV3 leads Adfx support
TV3 is to be the headline sponsor of the 2014 Adfx awards organised by IAPI. Taking place in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on Thursday, September 4, Adfx recognises and rewards the most effective advertising campaigns in Irish and international markets run in the last two years. TV3 commercial director Pat Kiely said the broadcaster […]
Curtis new UTV head of channel
Former Saorview director Mary Curtis had been appointed head of channel at UTV Ireland with responsibility for overseeing all programming content and leading the development of the new channel across all platforms. She was director of digital switchover and responsible for RTE Television’s digital strategy. Prior to that, she was RTE’s deputy director for TV […]
Sky to show Papal canonisations live in 3D
For the first time in history, Sky will broadcast the canonisation of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, presided over by Pope Francis live from St Peter’s Square in Rome on Sky 3D and Sky Arts from 8.30am on Sunday, April 27. The ceremony will be broadcast in full, without ad breaks. The […]
