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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Setanta rolls out football line-up
Setanta Sports has confirmed the first of their 71 exclusively live Barclays Premier League games for the 2013/14 season which for the first time includes 12:45 Saturday kick-offs on BT Sport. Fans of Ireland’s most supported Barclays Premier League clubs can look forward to Setanta and BT Sport’s first selections as Manchester United, Liverpool and […]
Sky adds UKTV’s Watch
Sky Media Ireland (SMI) now handles sales of UKTV’s Watch entertainment channel. Watch premieres “out-of-the-ordinary programming”, including fantasy and sci-fi dramas such as Grimm, Beauty and the Beast, Primeval: New World, Perception and Sanctuary. It showcases series like Doctor Who, Torchwood and Paranormal Witness. It commissioned the multi-award winning Dynamo Magician Impossible. Formed in 1997, […]
TV figures up in first quarter
TV viewing figures for the first three months of 2013 show that Irish adults aged 15 and over watched TV for an average of three hours 49 minutes each day, three minutes more than the same period last year, Television Audience Measurement (TAM) Ireland reports. As much as 91 per cent (three hours 29 mins) […]
McHugh TV3's new PR boss
TV3 Group has appointed Sharon McHugh as its new head of press and publicity. McHugh was company spokesperson for Paddy Power and headed up the bookmaker’s PR activity for six years. She was also communications manager for Three Ireland mobile operator, where she was responsible for the sponsorship of the Republic of Ireland football team […]
