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06 Jan 2009 RTÉ Announces Highlights For 2009
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RTÉ Television has unveiled a comprehensive range of its programming highlights for the first half of 2009, with 18 new Lifestyle series and 25 new Factual series and documentaries to be broadcast in the New Year and with five brand new entertainment series starting in the first week of January alone. more
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05 Jan 2009 New Dating Series ‘Eochair an Ghrá’ On TG4
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New dating series ‘Eochair an Ghrá’, produced by Galway based Abú Media, will commence on TG4 on Monday January 12th at 9.30pm. more
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05 Jan 2009 Channel 6 Becomes 3e & TV3 Rebrands
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Following TV3’s acquisition of Channel 6 in late 2008, Channel 6 has become repositioned as a sibling channel to TV3 - renaming the channel as ‘3e’ while TV3 has rebranded with a modern, contemporary look. more
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22 Dec 2008 Setanta Sports Seeks Programme Proposals
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Setanta Sports is seeking programme proposals for submission to the BCI’s next Sound & Vision funding round. more
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22 Dec 2008 RTÉ Wins Horse Racing Rights Until 2011
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RTÉ Television has secured live Irish horse racing rights for the next three years ensuring the Irish racing calendar free-to-air on the broadcaster until at least 2011. more
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22 Dec 2008 Bob Quinn Latest 'Vox Humana' On TG4
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New musical drama ‘Vox Humana (notes for a small opera)’ written and directed by Bob Quinn (Poitín, The Bishop’s Story) will air on Tuesday 30 December on TG4, at 9.05pm. more
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18 Dec 2008 Tributes Paid To Celine Cawley
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The Irish Audiovisual community and industry colleagues have paid tribute to Celine Cawley, founder of Toytown Films, who was murdered at her Howth home on Monday morning. more
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18 Dec 2008 President McAleese Guest of Honour in LA
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President Mary McAleese was guest of honour at the Irish Film Board and Enterprise Ireland reception held at the Warner Bros Studios in Los Angeles. more
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18 Dec 2008 TV3 Ends Year on a Ratings High
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Increased Irish programming content on TV3 has pulled in viewers with shows such as ‘TV3 News at 5.30’ and ‘Xposé’, ‘Ripping off the Rich’ and ‘20 Moments that Rocked Ireland’ all receiving their record audiences figures earlier in the week. more
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18 Dec 2008 Production Depot Starts Christmas Wrapping
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This week sees The Production Depot, supplier of equipment and services to the film and television industry wrapping on some productions on the run up to Christmas, with more scheduled to restart in January 2009. more
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18 Dec 2008 Larry Bass Discusses Rose d’Or
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The International Television competition ‘Rose d’Or’, one of the most prestigious awards in the world will be held from May 2-5, 2009 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Irish ambassador for the festival and jury member Larry Bass, producer of hit television show ‘The Apprentice’, discusses with IFTN the marketing and viewing benefits of submitting your television programme to the festival. more
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18 Dec 2008 BCI Launch 7th Sound & Vision Round
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The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has announced the seventh funding round of 'Sound and Vision for Television’. Applications are now invited from programme makers for funding for new television programmes dealing with the themes of Irish culture, heritage and experience. more
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17 Dec 2008 Emergency Broadcast Goes “Without a Hitch”
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On Tuesday morning at 4.45 a.m, the Department of Communications carried out a structured exercise in relation to the broadcast of emergency services. This exercise was part of the Government's commitment to emergency planning. more
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16 Dec 2008 UTV Redundancy Talks Stalled
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Michael Wilson, Managing Director of UTV Television, says they have not yet reached an agreement with unions on redundancies at the Northern Irish broadcaster, which is facing job losses due to a restructure of the television division. more
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16 Dec 2008 Cricket Doc 'Breaking Boundaries' On RTÉ
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RTÉ will screen behind the scenes documentary 'Breaking Boundaries - Ireland's Extraordinary Cricket World Cup' on December 29th at 3:20pm on RTÉ 2 as part of their Christmas Schedule. more
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16 Dec 2008 Alexander Pearce Doc to Premiere on RTÉ
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‘The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce’, a new feature length-dramatised documentary, featuring Adrian Dunbar (Whistleblower) and Ciarán McMenamin (Watermelon) will air as part of RTÉ's Hidden History strand on December 29th on RTÉ One. more
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16 Dec 2008 ‘Merlin’ Irish Cast Secure Second Series
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The Camelot fantasy drama ‘Merlin’, starring Irish actors Colin Morgan (Doctor Who?) and Katie McGrath (Freakdog), currently airing on BBC, has been greenlit for a second series. 112 territories have attained the show which has just been bought by NBC in the U.S. more
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12 Dec 2008 IFTA Announces Date For 2009 Awards Ceremony
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The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has announced that the 6th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 14th February 2009 in Dublin's Burlington Hotel. more
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12 Dec 2008 €15.5m Increase for BCI Sound & Vision Fund
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As the Broadcasting Bill concluded Committee Stage today, Communications Minister Eamon Ryan announced that he will increase funding for the Sound and Vision programme by 2% on the previous allocation increasing total investment in Ireland's independent television production to almost €15.5 million in 2009. more
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12 Dec 2008 'Babyface Goes to Hollywood' On Setanta Sports
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The premiere broadcast of Fastnet Films’ feature boxing documentary ‘Babyface Goes to Hollywood’, which tells the tale of the Irish prize fighter Jimmy McLarnin, airs on Setanta Sports Ireland on Wednesday 17 December at 10pm. more
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