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TV3 says UTV move an opt-out

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 […]

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UTV signs BAI contract

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 […]

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Sky Sports extends opt-out

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 […]

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TV watched 24 hours a week

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 […]

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Setanta rallies behind FIA events

Setanta Sports has confirmed that BT Sport has signed a deal to show exclusive live coverage of up to 26 stages of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), starting with the opening event of the 2014 season, the famous Rallye Monte Carlo, tomorrow (Wednesday, January 15). The WRC pits cars and drivers against each other […]

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Sky extends catch up

Sky customers can now catch up on their favourite TV from a total of 43 Sky and non-Sky channels, including TV3 from next week, at no extra cost. As well as the Sky channels, customers who connect their Sky+HD box to their broadband router will be able to watch catch up TV from an extended […]

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Love/Hate stars don Coola Boola hats

Love/Hate fans can support two Irish charities by buying a Coola Boola Santa Hat this Christmas. The brainchild of the Love/Hate team and commissioned by the popular crime drama’s’ producers and RTÉ,  the blue santa hat is on sale for €4 at Tesco, Golden Discs and Eason stores nationwide. All profits from the sales of the […]

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UTV starts to staff up

As it plans to launch a new TV channel in the Republic in early 2015, UTV has launched a recruitment drive. In readiness for the launch, the company has advertised three senior positions – head of channel Ireland, based in Dublin; head of sales operations Ireland, based in Dublin and senior programme planner/scheduler, based in […]

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Saorview gets a relaunch

Ireland’s ‘free-to-air’ digital provider Saorview has relaunched with a marketing campaign and new-look website aimed at getting consumers to make the switch.  Just over a year ago Ireland made the move to digital. The campaign includes a 20-second TV spot  promoting a “‘seriously good value” message. It  highlights the choice of programmes e on the […]

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O’Neill conference on Setanta

Setanta Sports will have live coverage of new Republic of Ireland manager Martin O’Neill’s first press conference tomorrow. Irish football fans will also have the opportunity to get first hand reactions from former Ireland players Kevin Kilbane and Matt Holland and former Ireland manager Brian Kerr throughout the weekend. The Setanta schedule starts tomorrow at […]

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What Richard Did on RTE

Lenny Abrahamson’s much-acclaimed film What Richard Did makes its TV debut on RTE tomorrow. The movie is loosely based on Kevin Power’s novel Bad Day in Blackrock, a fictional account of the tragic death of Dublin teenager Brian Murphy outside Annabel’s nightclub in 2000. Jack Reyner plays Richard Karlsen, a rugby player with a promising […]

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Celebrities talk sex on TV3

Following on from last week’s surprise double elimination, the cast of Celebrity Apprentice on TV3 get hot and heavy in this week’s task. Durex Ireland sets tonight’s task week and it revolves around their new product, Durex Embrace. Making sure not to spare the contestants any blushes, Embrace is made up of two sensual pleasure […]

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Setanta launches highlights shows

Setanta Sports will launch its new Barclays Premier League highlights this weekend. Premier League Central goes out at 8.30pm on Saturday with a second highlights show at 10.30pm on Sunday on Setanta Ireland. The Saturday show will be presented by Setanta’s Connor Morris, who will be joined by studio guests former Charlton and Ireland midfielder […]

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