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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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Setanta Sports is to broadcast both the European Rugby Champions Cup (ERCC) and the European Rugby Challenge Cup on BT Sport. The deal means Setanta Sports subscribers in the Republic of Ireland can view 35 live matches on BT Sport as part of the Setanta Sports pack. It will include half of the televised pool […]

TV3 plans to air US drama Crisis in April. Starring Gillian Anderson and Dermot Mulroney, the series centres on the ambush of a school bus from an elite private school in Washington DC. The students on the bus, children of the country’s most powerful people, including the President, are held ransom. There are 13 hour-long […]

TV3 commercial director Pat Kiely has described UTV’s move to launch a station in the Republic next year as an opt-out bid to win a greater share of the Republic’s advertising spend. In a cover story interview in the March issue of Marketing.ie, Kiely says UTV is already in the market but what they are […]

UTV Ireland has signed a ten-year television content provision contract with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), under section 71 of the Irish Broadcasting Act.  UTV Ireland plans to start broadcasting in the Republic from next January. UTV has an agreement with ITV Studios Global Entertainment, which will give UTV the exclusive broadcasting rights for […]

Sky Media Ireland (SMI) has added Sky Sports 3 and 4 to its live sport availability for Irish advertisers on TV. The move brings SMI’s representation to 31 channels with Irish feeds and follows the announcement of Sky’s new YouTube channel, Sky First Episodes (SFE), starting this Saturday. SFE allows viewers watch the first episodes […]

The average Irish adult watches almost three and a half hours of television a day, or over 24 hours a week, viewing figures for last year released by TAM Ireland/Nielsen figures show. The viewing of live scheduled shows accounts for 91 per cent of TV time and just nine per cent is time-shifted with recordings […]