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TV3 is a free-to-air commercial
television network
in the Republic of Ireland
. Launched on 20 September 1998 it was Ireland's first commercial broadcaster. The channel is owned by TV3 Group a subsidiary of Doughty Hanson & Co
.
and its online service tv3.ie. The networks studios is located at Ballymount
, Dublin. TV3 was initially the first channel from the network launched in 1998. The network expanded in 2008 when TV3 purchased rival channel Channel 6
and rebranded the channel in January 2009 as 3e
. In November 2008, tv3.ie website was rebranded, with the intention to develop it into an entertainment portal. Catch up facilities, as well as exclusive content is available for TV3 programming as are news, weather, sport and entertainment updates. In October 2011, 3Player
a video-on-demand service was launched.
and Xposé
). In 2010 TV3 announced a target of 50% Irish programming by 2012. TV3 has also confirmed its plan to build a major new studio in 2011 which will be fully HD capable with audience capacity.
They have a small staff of 200 employees to run two television channels and one on-demand online service. On average, TV3 spend about €10 million on internal productions which are generally for daytime viewers. They do not have a history of strong prime-time content: generally their home produced programmes consist of at least one independently produced programme, e.g. The Apprentice, a number of internal documentaries such as Ireland Undercover and a number of BCI licence fee-funded independent products such as School Run,Diary of... and Modern Ireland.
As of October 2009, TV3 claim they are the most watched television channel by people aged 15–24 years old. This group was previously captured by RTÉ One
. This is an important group to capture as it is often these viewers whom advertisers wish to target. In reaction to this press release from TV3, RTÉ rebutted their claims stating that RTÉ One outdoes TV3 in far more demographic categories and that TV3's press release, "In terms of the selective audiences focussed upon by TV3 in their release, it's clear this is a recent phenomenon and only pertains to a narrow sub-demographic of young viewers in this country. By contrast, the year-to-date equivalent (1 January - 20 October), all day national share, sees RTÉ One with a 16.2% share of the 15-24s; TV3 with a 13.3% share."
and the owner of the Windmill Lane Studios
where the group had made many of their records. Initially it was envisaged that the station would only broadcast on cable and MMDS but it was later decided that the station should broadcast on terrestrial UHF also. Because of delays in setting up the station, the licence was revoked by the IRTC. After a court battle, the licence was eventually restored in 1993.
At this stage, an agreement was made to sell 49% of the company to UTV, the ITV franchise in Northern Ireland
, to raise much-needed cash for investment in facilities. However, as TV3 were trying to convince Irish cable and MMDS carriers to replace UTV with their channel, the new shareholders pulled out in 1995. Given that UTV had the third largest audience in the Republic, the carriers declined to drop them in favour of TV3. The result was that the project was on hold again. In 1997, CanWest, decided to step in and buy a major stake in the new company.
TV3 was the fourth national station to be launched in Ireland; after RTÉ One
in 1961 (as Teilifís Éireann), RTÉ Two
in 1978 and TG4
in 1996 (as TnaG). It was the first Irish station which was not publicly funded.
TV3's initial on-air branding referred to the station as 'tvthree', although this was part of the corporate logo up to 2009 it was dropped from their on-screen brand in 2001. The Schoolhouse Rock!
song, "Three Is A Magic Number", was the station's theme tune, played every day during start-up and close-down.
In September 2000, Granada Media plc (a predecessor company of ITV plc
which then owned six ITV
franchises) agreed to acquire 45% of the company from the original TV3 consortium. This was part of deal which gave TV3 the right to simulcast with ITV certain Granada programming. The Granada plc shareholding was taken over by ITV plc upon the merger of Granada with Carlton
on 2 February 2004.
In early 2001, the station officially launched threetext, the teletext
service, much of the content from Thomas Crosbie Media. Test transmissions of this service commenced in late 2000, but as early as 1999 limited programming content was provided. However, in 2004, the news and sports were dropped as part of a rebranding to an 'entertainment portal'.
On 16 January 2006, Canwest announced to TV3 staff, that it was selling its stake in the channel, in an effort to reduce its debt, resulting in it leaving the European market. A purchaser for this stake for (for €103 million), rights to buy ITV Plc's stake (for €103 million), and the remaining 10% (for €59 million) was announced on 19 May as Doughty Hanson & Co
, a venture capital firm.
The channel began broadcasting in widescreen format on Sky Ireland from 6 March 2006 and subsequently on UPC
in 2007.
In January 2009 TV3 relaunched under the corporate name of The TV3 Group (Officially they remain TV3 Television Network Limited). The TV3 Group consists of TV3, 3e
and tv3.i.e.
Upon its launch in 1998, TV3 utilized the existing RTÉNL main transmitter masts around the country. It also utilizes three relay services located in Cork City and Limerick City. Availability of TV3 in some rural areas has been limited as TV3 have failed to invest in relay stations for most notably in County Donegal
, County Kerry
and County Cork
. Many rural areas are reliant on satellite reception to receive TV3 via Sky Ireland, this option requires a subscription service. Effectively, TV3 is now available to 98% of homes through Saorview
and Saorsat
. Similar to other broadcasters in Europe, TV3 will cease broadcasting on analogue from December 2012 or thereafter.
In October 29, 2010, as Ireland
moved towards full integration of digital terrestrial television
through Saorview
. Both TV3 and its sister channel 3e
have been available on test trials of Saorview since October 29, 2010. As of May 2011
both channels are now available to 98% of the population.
Between 2008 and 2010, with the development of digital terrestrial television
(dtt) within the Republic of Ireland
. The TV3 Group had ambitions to play a significant role in helping to develop the pay television element of DTT in Ireland. TV3 Group helped to shape a consortium known as One Vision (DTT)
which was also made up of Arqiva
, Eircom
and Setanta Sports
. OneVision submitted its proposal to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
(then the BCI). Initially, Onevision was unsuccessful at gaining the opportunity to operate the pay television element of Ireland's national DTT service. Negotiations between Boxer TV and BCI failed and on May 1, 2009 Fintan Drury, chairperson of the OneVision consortium announced that OneVision was to enter negotiations with the BCI with the view to take over operations of the pay DTT service. It was later confirmed on April 29, 2010 that the consortium had pulled out of negotiations with the BAI. As of 2011, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
have restarted negotiations to find a suitable service provider for the forthcoming pay DTT service. This service is not expected to launch until late 2012 or thereafter.
TV3 Group initially proposed to launch two channels to appear on the OneVision pay television service. These channels included a news and current affairs channel called 3TODAY and a channel skewed towards women called 3XPOSÉ/. Onevision withdrew from offering the pay television element to Ireland's digital terrestrial television
Saorview
after negotiations with the BAI failed due to difficulties with the terms of RTÉ NL apparently regarding multiplexing, marketing for DTT and other issues. The 3Today service was expected to appear on the Onevision DTT service. The channel was expected to air both Irish and international bespoke programing in current affairs as well as drama, comedy and documentary titles from some of the world’s best
producers.
As of August 2011
, it has now emerged that TV3 propose to launch three new channels in late 2012, which vary from their original plans. The first channel is TV3 HD which will air TV3 content in high-definition. TV3 confirmed its plan to build a new HD studio in 2011. The new studio will be used to provide new programming in HD and it will also allow independent companies to make use of the new studios also., TV3+1 which will act as a timeshift channel to TV3. 3 Kids which will air programming aimed at 4-12 year olds and 3 Classics a channel which focuses on Irish documentaries and film. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
suggests that these channels will launch in October 2012 before ASO
/DSO
takes place.
within Irish produced programming had previously been banned by broadcasting authorities in Ireland, though in the past Irish viewers have been used to product placement as seen on US television and film productions. Due to an EU ruling made in 2007, Irish broadcasters can now place products within programming mainly entertainment shows, though excludes progamming which is deemed mainly 'news and current affairs' and programming aimed at children. On August 15, 2011 it was confirmed that TV3 would become the first official broadcaster to implement the new broadcasting terms. Kenco Coffee reportedly payed TV3 Group a six-figure sum to place their branding on two key early morning television shows mainly, The Morning Show
and Midday
from September 2011. Similar to RTE
and TG4
broadcasters will have to air a logo 'PP' at the beginning and end of the show to inform viewers that products will appear on the show. RTE Television has previously used Product Placement on its series The Late Late Show
.
replaces the original TV3 Catch-Up service previously available at tv3.ie and through its iPhone/iPad app. The new service was revealed at a press call on Friday, October 7, 2011. It is estimated by the TV3 Group that the service will be worth about €7.5 million by 2015. 3Player is in HTML5 format which makes it available on the majority of operating systems.
, held at the Aviva Stadium
in Dublin. 40 cameras were used to broadcast to an audience in the tens of millions.
and UEFA
, the first renewal of their contract with the British broadcaster ITV
for shows such as The X Factor
and Coronation Street
, a small but significant increase in programmes commissioned from independent producers and their takeover of Channel 6 (now 3e
). They also increased their investment in online technology, with their online service earning a profit for the first time.
In 2008, TV3 received €3 million in funding from the licence fee for independent productions on the channel.
In 2009, two rounds of redundancies reduced TV3 staff to 213 people. Staff savings have been augmented by agreed reductions in wages. The 200 staff working in TV3 now provide seven hours of live television five days a week, an increase of two hours and a staff reduction of 50 since 2007.
. In 2008 Independent producers received €3million from the Sound and Vision fund for programming that they produced for TV3.
, Colette Fitzpatrick
, Elaine Crowley
and Vincent Browne
, as well as weather presenter Martin King
. TV3 News on weekdays consists of four main bulletins - Ireland AM, Midday, News @ 5.30 and Nightly News.
for over a decade, broadcast late in the day (at 23.30/23.40 Monday through Friday), until it was cancelled as of 23 March 2009.
Other original sports programming includes match analysis and commentary for UEFA Cup
matches. In 2008 the station began broadcasting a selection of GAA
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
and All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
matches as part of Championship Live
, as well as a weekly preview show called Championship Throw In. The station also aired coverage of the 2007 Rugby World Cup
.
A sports quiz show A Game Of Two Halves hosted by Trevor Welsh ran for 13 episodes in 1999; in 2005 they produced The Offside Show, presented by Dermot Whelan
, that lasted 12 episodes.
. Speakeasy was a prerecorded chat show that opened TV3 each weekday during its opening year, it began at 12:00 and ran until 12:30. TV3 produced its own version of the Pepsi Chart Show which provided a countdown to the top 40 music sales for Ireland. It was broadcast in many European countries using different presenters from each region. This was later replaced by Dynamite TV which was similar in format to RTÉ
's Top 30 Hits. TV3 had three other music shows, the first was Pop On 3 which was similar in format to RTÉ's 2TV
, The Sound Room presented by Darragh Purcell and 3 cubed which was a late night non-stop broadcast of music videos. Messrs Tylak and Rooney was a short lived travel comedy series in which Joe Rooney
and Paul Tykla travelled around Ireland's tourist spots. In 2000, TV3 commissioned the dating game Perfect Match hosted by Twink (Adele King
), this show only aired for one season. From 2001 TV3 began to produce Irish versions of hit international television shows including The Weakest Link
hosted by Eamon Dunphy
. In 2003, TV3 launched
The Dunphy Show
Eamon Dunphy
, was built up to be a contender with RTÉ
's The Late Late Show
. In spite of the flurry of media attention, The Dunphy Show's failed to perform to expectations, and was cancelled a week before the initial season was due to conclude. Popcorn, which regularly billed itself as "Ireland's favourite movie show" ran for 5 years and over 200 episodes before the axe fell - giving an irreverent look at the movie releases, both at the cinema and on DVD. In 2005, TV3 produced its second late night chat show hosted by Brendan Courtney
and called The Brendan Courtney Show which lasted for only two seasons, it aired Wednesdays at 22:00. Richard Eberle and Maura Derrane presented The Property Game for TV3 the same year.
Since 2007, TV3 has increased its Irish entertainment programmes Xposé
began airing in April 2007. It is an entertainment
and celebrity
focused show airing weeknights at 18.00. Beauty tips, fashion segments and celebrity interviews are the main components of the show. An Irish version of Deal Or No Deal
in association with the Irish National Lottery
was launched in 2009. It is produced by Endemol
for TV3. It has not returned to the schedule since its first run. In 2010 TV3 launched an Irish version of the hit international dating show Take Me Out for their 2010/2011 schedule'. Take Me Out is presented by Today FM
presenter Ray Foley. They also plan a second dating series called Pecking Order in which 5 girls rate themselves as they see guys rating them.
A second season of Take me Out was announced on 18 August 2011. Give Adele a Bell hosted by Adele King, Deception hosted by Keith Barry, an Irish version of Alan Hughes Family Fortunes
and the Irish version of the classic quiz show Mastermind
were announced as part of the 2011 schedule, while Adele King returns to TV3 with Give Adele a Bell.
In 2006 reality TV3 produced their second reality TV series. The Box, fronted by Keith Duffy
, debuted on Monday 9 October 2006.
The Apprentice
is a localised version of the original Donald Trump
reality series, the first series of which was broadcast in autumn 2008. The show returned in autumn 2009, making it the first time that a prime time TV3 show was renew following the first season. The Apprentice won the Best Entertainment Category at the 2009 IFTA
awards. TV3 snubbed the ceremony due to their concern over the number of RTÉ staff in the Academy. As part of the second series TV3 also launched their version of The Apprentice: You're Fired!
the spin-off show hosted by Brendan O'Connor
. Brendan O'Connor left the series for his chat show The Saturday Night Show
on rival network RTÉ One, Anton Savage replaced him as host of The Apprentice: You're Fired!. They have also added The Apprentice: At Home to the 3rd season.
On 21 April 2009 it was announced that the main presenter of Xposé
(Lorraine Keane) was to leave the series. TV3 announced a nationwide search for a new presenter of the show, on the 4th of June they announce that Michael O'Doherty
, Emma Ledden
and Gerry Lundberg would judge the applicants on a new TV show called Total Xposure
. On the 11th of June Sean Munsanje was declared the winner of Total Xposure
, winning a 6 month contract with TV3 as the newest member of the Xposé
Team, which was not renewed.
Celebrity Salon began on the channel on Monday 7 June 2010. It follows six celebrities (Brian Dowling
, Pippa O'Connor, Leigh Arnold, Virginia Macari, Celia Holman Lee
and Breffny Morgan) as they train over a 12 day period to become hairdressers. A fashion reality TV series Style Wars began in June 2010 to searched for Ireland's top fashion designer in a similar format to Project Runway
. The same year they produced a localized version of the BBC Three series Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum.
Head Chef
aired on TV3 from 8 April 2011 to 27 May 2011 and was won by Harry Marquart. A Celebrity version of the show (Celebrity Head Chef
) is coming soon and applications are currently being accepted for Junior Head Chef
.
TV3 announced a new Irish version of the international reality format Come Dine With Me
for their 2010/2011 schedule which will be produced by ITV
for the channel. A second series of Celebrity Salon began airing in June 2011 along with Irish version of Come Dine With Me.
A second series of Come Dine With Me was announced on 18 August 2011 along with a third series of Celebrity Salon and a fourth series of The Apprentice. Other reality programmes for 2011 include Tallafornia (Simial to RTÉ's Fade Street and ITV2's The Only Way is Essex) and Tearaway Teen to Beauty Queen (Similar to Channel 5's Asbo Teen To Beauty Queen and ITV's Ladette to Lady).
play Lady Windermere's Fan
set on the south of Dublin - this also received funding from the Sound and Vision Fund.
The Tudors
is made in Ireland for Showtime, but shown by TV3. Another series, Rock Rivals
, was filmed in Ireland for ITV
in the UK and shown by the station in early 2008.
During November 2009 rival broadcaster RTÉ
announced that their hit medical drama, The Clinic
, was cancelled after seven series. Rumours spread around the Internet that TV3 were in talks with producers of the show. On 26 November, TV3's Xposé confirmed the reports, and TV3's Director of Programming, Ben Frow, confirmed that the station has been in talks with the shows producers, to bring the show to the station. On Monday, 29 March 2010 Leigh Arnold - who starred in The Clinic - revealed on the Podge and Rodge
show on RTÉ Two
that TV3 will not be taking on the series.
TV3 announcedThe Guards as part of the 2009/2010 season. Initially slated for early 2010 the series has been pushed back again until late summer 2010, however reports suggest that the series has increase its number of episodes from two episodes to six. The producers of the show are actively promoting the series as Ireland's answer to The Wire
. as of 2011 the series has not aired on TV3 and seems unlikely. In 2010 both TV3 and RTL produced Irish based Jack Taylor series.
TV3 and ITV will co-produce Titantic which will air in 2012.
star Hector Ó hEochagáin
. It ran for one hour between 16:00 and 17:00, it included shows such as The Ren and Stimpy Show
& Conan the Adventurer
. It also aired a Sunday morning three hour show, using the same studio at their weekly show. Programmes shown included Conan And The Young Warriors, Hot Rod Dogs, Loggerheads and Brothers Flub. It was axed in 1999. Clodagh continued to introduce children's programming for a further 12 months in an untitled show. TV3 do not produce or broadcast any children's television now, however they will be showing a documentary on Irish children's television called The History of Irish Children's Television.
TV3 are planning a new children's TV service called 3Kids, which will time share with 3Classics, both will launch towards the end of 2012.
The autumn 2008 schedule continued this trend, with several Irish produced series including Now Then: How the Irish Have Sex, CCTV Cities with Donal MacIntyre
, Living With Murder, presented by Maura Derrane, and Corrupt - examining corruption in Ireland. Crunch Time was a three part documentary exploring Ireland's property crisis.
Many of TV3's factual programming is produced with the assistance of the licence fee through the BCI's Sound and Vision Fund or are produced in house by TV3's News and Information Department. The Cosmetic Surgery Show that looks at the world of cosmetic surgery presented by Dr. 90210
and Caroline Morahan
was broadcast in 2009.
TV3 announced a new raft of TV documentaries for 2011 including The Irish of 9/11, The Hospice, Paul Connelly Investigates, Anatomy of a Car Crash, Challenging God, 24 Hours to Kill, The Day the Germans Bombed Dublin, The Rise and Fall of Fianna Fáil, Sex Lives, Hen Parties, Paddies in Paradise, Strictly Irish Dancing, Ireland's Disco Kids, Dejunk Your Life and Ireland's Top Teens.
TV3 are planning a Documentary/Film channel called 3Classics, which will time share with 3Kids, both will launch towards the end of 2012.
show on TV3; it ran from May 2009 until March 2010.
On the 21st of September 2009 callers to the Liveline
radio show on RTÉ Radio 1
complained about the phone charges and methods surrounding TV3's late night quiz show Play TV. Host Joe Duffy stated that many of his listeners and callers to the show had not got a satisfactory reply from TV3 in relation to their complaints and hence his reason for this section of the his show, TV3 were unwilling to be a part of the discussion show having been asked by RTÉ Radio. Some of the contestants had not been paid their prize money. TV3 advised viewers who played the game to go to RegTel with any complaints.
On 25 September 2009 the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
met to review 20 complaints made to it by individuals in relation to Play TV; 15 were upheld, 1 was rejected, 1 was determined to be invalid and 2 remained under investigation.
In January 2010 the compliance committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland up held 10 more complaints against TV3. In February the BAI up held 3 more complaints.
On 5 March 2010 TV3 announced that Play TV's contract was terminated immediately. In their statement they put the removal of the "infomercial" down purely to audience figures rather than the complaints received and upheld by the BAI. They did not apologize for their conduct.
At the launch of TV3's Autumn (18 August 2010) schedule David McRedmond (CEO TV3) was interviewed by The Irish Times
where he admitted mistakes had been made but and admitted that Play TV was axed not just due to falling audience figures but also to the bad press and the regulators constant scrutiny of the show. He still refused to apologize to viewers on behalf of TV3 again stating that “It was an essential part of getting us through the recession” regardless of what the BAI called a “misleading and unfair” programme.
is an interactive phone-in quiz
show on UTV
and STV. As part of their Autumn schedule 2010 TV3 announced the re-broadcast of UTV
's Brainbox TV show. The show began airing on TV3 on 9 September 2010, just 7 months after the axing of the controversial Play TV
. It ceased broadcasting less than a week later.
, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Just Shoot Me!
. US programming has become less of an attraction on TV3 with many of their US shows airing on their sister channel 3e.
In the early years of TV3 introduced two UK soaps to Irish Audiences Family Affairs
(which was broadcast 18 months after Channel 5) and EastEnders
(which was broadcast with advertising simultaneously with BBC 1), and also the short lived Australian soap Breakers
and the US soap Sunset Beach
. TV3 broadcast of Family Affairs ended in June 2007, and was initially replace by Channel 4
's Hollyoaks
. Due to the high number of Irish viewers with Channel 4 TV3's broadcast of the show soon ended, TV3 were a month behind Channel 4 unlike their ITV
soaps which are simultaneously broadcast and unlike Family Affairs as five is not as prevalent in the Republic of Ireland. Hollyoaks was then replaced by the short lived The Royal Today
and finally by repeats of Friends
in 2009 with their takeover of Channel 6 now 3e
.
Following Granada/ITV's acquisition of a 45% share in the station in 2000 (which ended in 2006), Granada allowed TV3 to simulcast several of its programmes including soaps like Coronation Street
and Emmerdale
(both previously aired on RTÉ One
) as well as drama series such asBad Girls
and Footballers' Wives
. TV3 also simulcast EastEnders
from 1998 to 2001 (EastEnders is now broadcasting on RTÉ One
and has been doing so since 2001). ITV reality shows including The X Factor
, Dancing on Ice
,I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and Britain's Got Talent
are also simulcast on the station. In 2010 TV3 began broadcasting the BBC'sOver the Rainbow
, initially broadcast on Saturday night but moved to Sunday nights to make room for ITV's Britain's Got Talent.
With regards to its daytime schedule, TV3's programming mainly consists of repeats of Coronation Street and Emmerdale, as well as UK and US versions of lifestyle shows such as Judge Judy
, 10 Years Younger US, The Oprah Winfrey Show
, The Jeremy Kyle Show
and The Ellen DeGeneres Show
.
Along with the UK's X-factor TV3 will broadcast the US version of the TV show The X Factor US starting 8 September 2011. Other imports include the US version of Prime Suspect and the return of ITV's Downton Abbey
.
TV3 currently show the following US programmes, Glee
, V, Modern Family
, and Law & Order:SVU. American Idol
has been broadcast on TV3 quite close to its American airing for several years now.
September 1998 to July 2000: The original logo and design for the channel was devised by Dynamo. In the lead up to the network's launch, TV3's logo was unveiled during promotion ads on RTÉ
and TG4
. The logo consisted of a redesigned number 3. The upper half of the 3 was separated from the lower half, the two halves came together to form 2 swooshing arches that would form the 3. There were a number of different idents from September 1998 to July 2000 including 'Bubbles', 'Camera Lenses', 'Robot', 'Umbrella', 'Fan', 'Planets', 'Children's Toy', 'Bumper Cars' and 'Roller-Coaster'. Each of the idents would end with a girl whispering the word 'three' a number of times.
July 2000 to September 2003 In July 2000, TV3 developed new idents. The new idents removed the words 'tvthree' from beneath the stylized 3 logo. The project was directed by Dynamo's creative head of broadcast media, Brian Williams. These were TV3's first idents to feature live action - actors would be seen in the background of the logo doing various day-to-day activities with the 3 logo spinning around to reveal itself. In 2001, some of these idents would have characters from Granada TV programming appear in the background, such as characters from Coronation Street
, Emmerdale
and Heartbeat.
September 2003 to March 2006: In September 2003, TV3 again launched a new set of idents. Again, this series of idents consisted of live action scenes. The final scene would see a large 'swoosh' effect in the center of the screen with the 3 logo appearing in the centre of the screen. These idents consisted of outdoor activities such as a walk at the beach, children playing football, children playing, people walking over the Ha'penny bridge
etc. The presentation package was produced by Bruce Dunlop Associates.
March 2006 - January 2009: In March 2006, TV3 took steps to rebrand as Channel 6 (now 3e
) in an attempt to become a competitor in the Irish market. These idents consisted of live action scenes often involving the number 3 such as 3 drops of water into a river. The 3 logo now moved from just the stylized 3 into 3 circles with the stylized 3 in the last circle. The presentation package was produced by Cleverality.
January 2009 - August 2009: In January 2009, TV3 unveiled its new station logo - a simple sans-serif
number 3 similar in style to that of TV3 (Viasat)
's logo. This revamp co co-insided with the re-launch of Channel 6 as '3e'. Officially, the TV3 logo is that of a box with a 3 cut out of the right hand side - this design is used on all news programmes. However, the idents consisted of a set of simple graphical 3s in a domino effect with different colours such as grey, purple and blue. The idents were produced by Image Now.
August 2009 – August 2011: Between August 2009 and February 2009 TV3 introduced 8 new idents. The first two idents - known as 'Orchard' and 'Elevator' - launched TV3's live action idents. In September, a third ident entitled 'Wave' was added, followed in October by a fourth ident known as 'Bridge'. A edited version of the Bridge ident (to promote the series 'V'), a sixth new ident known as 'Dog' was introduced in November 2009 and in December 2009 the ident 'snowman' was added and in February 2010 the 8th ident was added 'bubbles'. TV3 has been working with Image Now to create these Idents.
August 2011 – Present: On Monday, August 22, 2011; TV3 revealed a new on-air look. While utilizing its existing logo, TV3 revealed new idents which are CGI in design and are based around specific themes i.e. crime, urban, entertainment. The new look idents were designed by Image Now who have previously worked on the channel's branding since 2009.
and Tom McGurk of The Sunday Business Post
is that TV3 need to differentiate themselves in the growing Irish multi-channel market by making more original programming than at present.
Many Irish people were shocked in December 2009 at the manner in which TV3 News disclosed that Finance Minister Brian Lenihan
was suffering from a serious illness. Senior government sources spoke of "outrage" across the political spectrum at the insensitive content and tone of a news bulletin broadcast, which the station had earlier flagged as a "news story of national importance". However the station's decision was defended by the Irish Times and the political magazine the Phoenix
. The BAI ruled in favour of TV3 in relation to this announcement. Rejecting all 14 complaints made against TV3 to the regulator.
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in the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
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. Launched on 20 September 1998 it was Ireland's first commercial broadcaster. The channel is owned by TV3 Group a subsidiary of Doughty Hanson & Co
Doughty Hanson & Co
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.
The TV3 Group
The TV3 Group was established in January 2009. The network operates TV3 and its sister channel 3e3E
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and its online service tv3.ie. The networks studios is located at Ballymount
Ballymount
Ballymount , is located on the south side of Dublin, near the mainly residential areas of Walkinstown to the east, Tallaght to the west and Greenhills to the south...
, Dublin. TV3 was initially the first channel from the network launched in 1998. The network expanded in 2008 when TV3 purchased rival channel Channel 6
3E
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and rebranded the channel in January 2009 as 3e
3E
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. In November 2008, tv3.ie website was rebranded, with the intention to develop it into an entertainment portal. Catch up facilities, as well as exclusive content is available for TV3 programming as are news, weather, sport and entertainment updates. In October 2011, 3Player
3Player
3Player is an on demand video service provided by Ireland's TV3, for programmes broadcast on both TV3 Ireland and 3e. 3Player is available to audiences in the Republic of Ireland. The service was launched on Saturday, October 8, 2011...
a video-on-demand service was launched.
Broadcasting Policy
TV3 broadcasts a wide range of programming which in its early years depended heavily on international acquisitions. In 2008, the TV3 Group produced a three-year strategy to increase the amount of homegrown productions on the channel. Under their contract with the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI), TV3 are required since 2008 to have 30% of their programming coming from Ireland though TV3 now produces 40% Irish produced content (Most of this content comes from in studio productions such as Ireland AMIreland AM
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and Xposé
Xposé
Xposé is an Irish entertainment/celebrity gossip programme, broadcast weekday evenings at 6pm on TV3, with a repeat the following day at 12:50pm on TV3 and again at 6.30pm on 3e .-History and format:...
). In 2010 TV3 announced a target of 50% Irish programming by 2012. TV3 has also confirmed its plan to build a major new studio in 2011 which will be fully HD capable with audience capacity.
They have a small staff of 200 employees to run two television channels and one on-demand online service. On average, TV3 spend about €10 million on internal productions which are generally for daytime viewers. They do not have a history of strong prime-time content: generally their home produced programmes consist of at least one independently produced programme, e.g. The Apprentice, a number of internal documentaries such as Ireland Undercover and a number of BCI licence fee-funded independent products such as School Run,Diary of... and Modern Ireland.
As of October 2009, TV3 claim they are the most watched television channel by people aged 15–24 years old. This group was previously captured by RTÉ One
RTÉ One
RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...
. This is an important group to capture as it is often these viewers whom advertisers wish to target. In reaction to this press release from TV3, RTÉ rebutted their claims stating that RTÉ One outdoes TV3 in far more demographic categories and that TV3's press release, "In terms of the selective audiences focussed upon by TV3 in their release, it's clear this is a recent phenomenon and only pertains to a narrow sub-demographic of young viewers in this country. By contrast, the year-to-date equivalent (1 January - 20 October), all day national share, sees RTÉ One with a 16.2% share of the 15-24s; TV3 with a 13.3% share."
Initial idea and setbacks
TV3, which was intended to be Ireland's third terrestrial channel, took almost ten years to bring from initial planning to debut. In October 1988 the Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC) was created to regulate new independent stations. The original TV3 licence to broadcast was granted in 1990 to a consortium including members of U2U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
and the owner of the Windmill Lane Studios
Windmill Lane Studios
Windmill Lane Studios, also known as the "U2 studio", is a three-storey music recording studio located in Dublin, Ireland. It is located on Windmill Lane, a small street just south of City Quay and the River Liffey and a little north of Pearse Station. It was opened in 1978 by Brian Masterson who...
where the group had made many of their records. Initially it was envisaged that the station would only broadcast on cable and MMDS but it was later decided that the station should broadcast on terrestrial UHF also. Because of delays in setting up the station, the licence was revoked by the IRTC. After a court battle, the licence was eventually restored in 1993.
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At this stage, an agreement was made to sell 49% of the company to UTV, the ITV franchise in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
, to raise much-needed cash for investment in facilities. However, as TV3 were trying to convince Irish cable and MMDS carriers to replace UTV with their channel, the new shareholders pulled out in 1995. Given that UTV had the third largest audience in the Republic, the carriers declined to drop them in favour of TV3. The result was that the project was on hold again. In 1997, CanWest, decided to step in and buy a major stake in the new company.
Launch and development
TV3 finally took to the air on 20 September 1998 at 17:30. A preview of the station's programming formed the first half-hour of transmissions, followed by the first TV3 News at 18:00.TV3 was the fourth national station to be launched in Ireland; after RTÉ One
RTÉ One
RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...
in 1961 (as Teilifís Éireann), RTÉ Two
RTÉ Two
RTÉ Two is a free-to-air general entertainment channel operated by Irish state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Two is available throughout the island of Ireland through digital terrestrial service Saorview, VHF and UHF bands, and is also available via satellite to Irish subscribers of...
in 1978 and TG4
TG4
TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....
in 1996 (as TnaG). It was the first Irish station which was not publicly funded.
TV3's initial on-air branding referred to the station as 'tvthree', although this was part of the corporate logo up to 2009 it was dropped from their on-screen brand in 2001. The Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network ABC. The topics covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics...
song, "Three Is A Magic Number", was the station's theme tune, played every day during start-up and close-down.
In September 2000, Granada Media plc (a predecessor company of ITV plc
ITV plc
ITV plc is a British media company that operates 12 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom...
which then owned six ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
franchises) agreed to acquire 45% of the company from the original TV3 consortium. This was part of deal which gave TV3 the right to simulcast with ITV certain Granada programming. The Granada plc shareholding was taken over by ITV plc upon the merger of Granada with Carlton
Carlton Television
Carlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...
on 2 February 2004.
In early 2001, the station officially launched threetext, the teletext
Teletext
Teletext is a television information retrieval service developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. It offers a range of text-based information, typically including national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules...
service, much of the content from Thomas Crosbie Media. Test transmissions of this service commenced in late 2000, but as early as 1999 limited programming content was provided. However, in 2004, the news and sports were dropped as part of a rebranding to an 'entertainment portal'.
On 16 January 2006, Canwest announced to TV3 staff, that it was selling its stake in the channel, in an effort to reduce its debt, resulting in it leaving the European market. A purchaser for this stake for (for €103 million), rights to buy ITV Plc's stake (for €103 million), and the remaining 10% (for €59 million) was announced on 19 May as Doughty Hanson & Co
Doughty Hanson & Co
Doughty Hanson & Co is a British private equity fund manager focused on leveraged buyout and recapitalization transactions primarily of upper middle-market companies in Europe...
, a venture capital firm.
The channel began broadcasting in widescreen format on Sky Ireland from 6 March 2006 and subsequently on UPC
UPC Ireland
UPC Ireland is Liberty Global Europe's telecommunications operation in Ireland. UPC Ireland is the largest digital cable television provider within the Republic of Ireland. As of September 2010 the company offers broadband internet, digital television and digital telephony to over 531,000 customers...
in 2007.
In January 2009 TV3 relaunched under the corporate name of The TV3 Group (Officially they remain TV3 Television Network Limited). The TV3 Group consists of TV3, 3e
3E
3E or 3-E may refer to:*3e, general entertainment channel operated in Ireland*3rd meridian east*Third edition in the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons*NY 3E, alternate name for New York State Route 104*OK-3E, abbreviation for Oklahoma State Highway 3...
and tv3.i.e.
Availability
- Analogue rollout
Upon its launch in 1998, TV3 utilized the existing RTÉNL main transmitter masts around the country. It also utilizes three relay services located in Cork City and Limerick City. Availability of TV3 in some rural areas has been limited as TV3 have failed to invest in relay stations for most notably in County Donegal
County Donegal
County Donegal is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Border Region and is also located in the province of Ulster. It is named after the town of Donegal. Donegal County Council is the local authority for the county...
, County Kerry
County Kerry
Kerry means the "people of Ciar" which was the name of the pre-Gaelic tribe who lived in part of the present county. The legendary founder of the tribe was Ciar, son of Fergus mac Róich. In Old Irish "Ciar" meant black or dark brown, and the word continues in use in modern Irish as an adjective...
and County Cork
County Cork
County Cork is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Cork . Cork County Council is the local authority for the county...
. Many rural areas are reliant on satellite reception to receive TV3 via Sky Ireland, this option requires a subscription service. Effectively, TV3 is now available to 98% of homes through Saorview
Saorview
Saorview is the national free-to-air digital terrestrial television service in Republic of Ireland.The service began operation on 29 October 2010 on a trial basis with full launch on 26 May 2011. By legislation it was required to be available to approximately 90% of the population by end of...
and Saorsat
Saorsat
Saorsat is the proposed name for the free-to-air satellite service in the Republic of Ireland. The service is expected to launch in late 2011...
. Similar to other broadcasters in Europe, TV3 will cease broadcasting on analogue from December 2012 or thereafter.
- DTT Roll-Out
In October 29, 2010, as Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
moved towards full integration of digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...
through Saorview
Saorview
Saorview is the national free-to-air digital terrestrial television service in Republic of Ireland.The service began operation on 29 October 2010 on a trial basis with full launch on 26 May 2011. By legislation it was required to be available to approximately 90% of the population by end of...
. Both TV3 and its sister channel 3e
3E
3E or 3-E may refer to:*3e, general entertainment channel operated in Ireland*3rd meridian east*Third edition in the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons*NY 3E, alternate name for New York State Route 104*OK-3E, abbreviation for Oklahoma State Highway 3...
have been available on test trials of Saorview since October 29, 2010. As of May 2011
May 2011
May 2011 was the fifth month of the current year. It began on a Sunday and ended after 31 days on a Tuesday.- Portal:Current events :This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from May 2011....
both channels are now available to 98% of the population.
Between 2008 and 2010, with the development of digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...
(dtt) within the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
. The TV3 Group had ambitions to play a significant role in helping to develop the pay television element of DTT in Ireland. TV3 Group helped to shape a consortium known as One Vision (DTT)
One Vision (DTT)
OneVision was a consortium that have been offered a licence by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to run the pay television services on the DTT platform in the Republic of Ireland....
which was also made up of Arqiva
Arqiva
Arqiva is a telecommunications company which provides infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The present company, with headquarters located at Crawley Court in the village of Crawley, Hampshire, was formed by National Grid Wireless...
, Eircom
Eircom
Eircom Group LTD is a telecommunications company in the Republic of Ireland, and a former state-owned incumbent. It is currently the largest telecommunications operator in the Republic of Ireland and operates primarily on the island of Ireland, with a point of presence in Great Britain.As Bord...
and Setanta Sports
Setanta Sports
Setanta Sports is an international sports broadcaster based in Dublin, Ireland. Setanta Sports was formed in 1990 to facilitate the broadcasting of Irish sporting events...
. OneVision submitted its proposal to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland was established on 1 October 2009 effectively replacing the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland ....
(then the BCI). Initially, Onevision was unsuccessful at gaining the opportunity to operate the pay television element of Ireland's national DTT service. Negotiations between Boxer TV and BCI failed and on May 1, 2009 Fintan Drury, chairperson of the OneVision consortium announced that OneVision was to enter negotiations with the BCI with the view to take over operations of the pay DTT service. It was later confirmed on April 29, 2010 that the consortium had pulled out of negotiations with the BAI. As of 2011, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland was established on 1 October 2009 effectively replacing the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland ....
have restarted negotiations to find a suitable service provider for the forthcoming pay DTT service. This service is not expected to launch until late 2012 or thereafter.
- Additional Channels
TV3 Group initially proposed to launch two channels to appear on the OneVision pay television service. These channels included a news and current affairs channel called 3TODAY and a channel skewed towards women called 3XPOSÉ/. Onevision withdrew from offering the pay television element to Ireland's digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...
Saorview
Saorview
Saorview is the national free-to-air digital terrestrial television service in Republic of Ireland.The service began operation on 29 October 2010 on a trial basis with full launch on 26 May 2011. By legislation it was required to be available to approximately 90% of the population by end of...
after negotiations with the BAI failed due to difficulties with the terms of RTÉ NL apparently regarding multiplexing, marketing for DTT and other issues. The 3Today service was expected to appear on the Onevision DTT service. The channel was expected to air both Irish and international bespoke programing in current affairs as well as drama, comedy and documentary titles from some of the world’s best
producers.
As of August 2011
August 2011
'August 2011 was the eighth month of the current year. It began on a Monday and ended after 31 days on a Wednesday.- Portal:Current events :This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from August 2011. ...
, it has now emerged that TV3 propose to launch three new channels in late 2012, which vary from their original plans. The first channel is TV3 HD which will air TV3 content in high-definition. TV3 confirmed its plan to build a new HD studio in 2011. The new studio will be used to provide new programming in HD and it will also allow independent companies to make use of the new studios also., TV3+1 which will act as a timeshift channel to TV3. 3 Kids which will air programming aimed at 4-12 year olds and 3 Classics a channel which focuses on Irish documentaries and film. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland was established on 1 October 2009 effectively replacing the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland ....
suggests that these channels will launch in October 2012 before ASO
ASO
-Geography:* Aso , a river in Italy* Aso, Kumamoto, Japan* Mount Aso, a mountain in Japan* Aso Rock, a large outcrop on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria-Medicine:* Allele-specific oligonucleotide* Atherosclerosis obliterans* Anti-streptolysin O...
/DSO
DSO
DSO may refer to:Decorations* Distinguished Service Order refers to a number of decorationsMusic* Dallas Symphony Orchestra* Dark Star Orchestra* Deathspell Omega, a French black metal band* Detroit Symphony Orchestra...
takes place.
Product Placement
Product PlacementProduct placement
Product placement, or embedded marketing, is a form of advertisement, where branded goods or services are placed in a context usually devoid of ads, such as movies, music videos, the story line of television shows, or news programs. The product placement is often not disclosed at the time that the...
within Irish produced programming had previously been banned by broadcasting authorities in Ireland, though in the past Irish viewers have been used to product placement as seen on US television and film productions. Due to an EU ruling made in 2007, Irish broadcasters can now place products within programming mainly entertainment shows, though excludes progamming which is deemed mainly 'news and current affairs' and programming aimed at children. On August 15, 2011 it was confirmed that TV3 would become the first official broadcaster to implement the new broadcasting terms. Kenco Coffee reportedly payed TV3 Group a six-figure sum to place their branding on two key early morning television shows mainly, The Morning Show
The Morning Show
-Australia:* The Morning Show, the top rating morning talk show hosted by Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies on Channel Seven.* The Morning Show, the original title for the chat show Good Morning Australia, which later became 9am with David and Kim...
and Midday
Midday
Midday is a television show that aired on Australia's Nine Network from 1985-1998. The show aired, like its title suggests, at noon on every weekday and was a 90 minute variety programme with international and local guests. It featured interviews, musical performances and comedy spots...
from September 2011. Similar to RTE
RTE
RTÉ is the abbreviation for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the public broadcasting service of the Republic of Ireland.RTE may also refer to:* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey...
and TG4
TG4
TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....
broadcasters will have to air a logo 'PP' at the beginning and end of the show to inform viewers that products will appear on the show. RTE Television has previously used Product Placement on its series The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show, sometimes referred to as The Late Late, or in some cases by the acronym LLS, is the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster and the official flagship television programme of Irish broadcasting company RTÉ...
.
TV3 iPhone App
On Friday, 24 September 2010 TV3 launched its iPhone application. The service costs €1.59 to download and offers TV3 viewers the opportunity to watch TV3 content including news, showbiz and sport. It also supplies audiences with an on-demand catch-up service which allows its viewers to watch streamed content.3Player
TV3's Video on Demand (VOD) relaunched on Saturday, October 8, 2011.3Player3Player
3Player is an on demand video service provided by Ireland's TV3, for programmes broadcast on both TV3 Ireland and 3e. 3Player is available to audiences in the Republic of Ireland. The service was launched on Saturday, October 8, 2011...
replaces the original TV3 Catch-Up service previously available at tv3.ie and through its iPhone/iPad app. The new service was revealed at a press call on Friday, October 7, 2011. It is estimated by the TV3 Group that the service will be worth about €7.5 million by 2015. 3Player is in HTML5 format which makes it available on the majority of operating systems.
2011 UEFA Europa League Final
A milestone in TV3 broadcasting history came with coverage of the 2011 UEFA Europa League Final2011 UEFA Europa League Final
The 2011 UEFA Europa League Final was a football match played on 18 May 2011 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, which decided the winner of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League...
, held at the Aviva Stadium
Aviva Stadium
The Aviva Stadium is a sports stadium located in Dublin, Ireland, with a capacity for 50,000 spectators. The stadium is built on the site of the old Lansdowne Road venue, which was demolished in 2007, and replaces that stadium as home to its chief tenants: the Irish rugby union team and the...
in Dublin. 40 cameras were used to broadcast to an audience in the tens of millions.
Budget
In 2009 TV3 had revenues of €54,300,000. In the previous year (2008), TV3 received €62 million in advertising revenue. Increases in programme cost during 2008 included new sporting contracts with the GAAGaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
and UEFA
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....
, the first renewal of their contract with the British broadcaster ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
for shows such as The X Factor
The X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...
and Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
, a small but significant increase in programmes commissioned from independent producers and their takeover of Channel 6 (now 3e
3E
3E or 3-E may refer to:*3e, general entertainment channel operated in Ireland*3rd meridian east*Third edition in the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons*NY 3E, alternate name for New York State Route 104*OK-3E, abbreviation for Oklahoma State Highway 3...
). They also increased their investment in online technology, with their online service earning a profit for the first time.
In 2008, TV3 received €3 million in funding from the licence fee for independent productions on the channel.
In 2009, two rounds of redundancies reduced TV3 staff to 213 people. Staff savings have been augmented by agreed reductions in wages. The 200 staff working in TV3 now provide seven hours of live television five days a week, an increase of two hours and a staff reduction of 50 since 2007.
Irish-produced programming
TV3 programming has often been criticised for having no "distinctive, clearly Irish identity". In spring 2008, a major effort was made by the station to change this situation. In general TV3 spend around €10 million on their Irish productions each year, in 2008 they significantly increased the number of prime time shows produced in Ireland, TV3 are required by law to use 15% of its total Irish production budget for Independent Productions. Since 2004 Independent Productions for TV3 have been able to avail of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland's (BCI) Sound and Vision Fund, a fund provided to the BCI from RTÉRTE
RTÉ is the abbreviation for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the public broadcasting service of the Republic of Ireland.RTE may also refer to:* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey...
. In 2008 Independent producers received €3million from the Sound and Vision fund for programming that they produced for TV3.
News and Current Affairs
TV3's 3 News and Information department looks after all of TV3s in-house productions, from Entertainment to Current Affair. Andrew Hanlon is TV3's Director of News, he has held that position since the channel first began airing. At its launch TV3 had 2 main news programmes News @ 6 and News Tonight. A round-up of the weeks news was shown on Sunday nights called The Week In Review from 1998-2008. The news team includes Alan CantwellAlan Cantwell
Alan Cantwell Jr., M.D., , is a retired dermatologist. Between the late 1960s and mid-1980s, Cantwell was author or co-author of around 30 case reports describing bacteria found in cases of scleroderma, panniculitis, and dermatological malignancies.More recently, he has written conspiracy theory...
, Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick is, since September 2006, one of the main news anchors at TV3 News for TV3 Ireland. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary....
, Elaine Crowley
Elaine Crowley
Elaine Crowley was an Irish author. She is best known for her novels Dreams of Other Days, The Young Wives and a Family Cursed....
and Vincent Browne
Vincent Browne
Vincent Browne is an Irish print and broadcast journalist. He is a columnist with The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post and a part time barrister....
, as well as weather presenter Martin King
Martin King (weather presenter)
Martin Boyle , known professionally as Martin King, is the weather anchor with TV3 in Ireland. He is one of TV's most recognisable weather forecasters. He is also a co-presenter of The Morning Show with Sybil & Martin on TV3 and has his own radio show on Today FM.-TV career:When TV3 launched in...
. TV3 News on weekdays consists of four main bulletins - Ireland AM, Midday, News @ 5.30 and Nightly News.
Sports
TV3 produced a weekday sports round-up programme called Sports TonightSports Tonight
Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten . The program was broadcast on Weeknights at 10.30 pm; at 11.00pm , Fridays at 12.00am , and on Sunday from 7:30pm AEDT Sports Tonight was an Australian sports information program broadcast on Network Ten (and on...
for over a decade, broadcast late in the day (at 23.30/23.40 Monday through Friday), until it was cancelled as of 23 March 2009.
Other original sports programming includes match analysis and commentary for UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
matches. In 2008 the station began broadcasting a selection of GAA
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn...
and All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1887 for the top hurling teams in Ireland....
matches as part of Championship Live
Championship Live
Championship Live is TV3's main Gaelic games television programme. Typically, it is shown on TV3 on Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons during the All-Ireland championships in both hurling and football, showing live coverage of the day's match....
, as well as a weekly preview show called Championship Throw In. The station also aired coverage of the 2007 Rugby World Cup
2007 Rugby World Cup
The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 20 October. France won the hosting rights in 2003,...
.
A sports quiz show A Game Of Two Halves hosted by Trevor Welsh ran for 13 episodes in 1999; in 2005 they produced The Offside Show, presented by Dermot Whelan
Dermot Whelan
Dermot Whelan is an Irish comedian.A native of Limerick, Whelan is a regular contributor on RTÉ's The Panel, he is also the host of Republic of Telly and has performed at major comedy festivals, including the Kilkenny Cat's Laugh Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
, that lasted 12 episodes.
Entertainment
Since its inception Entertainment played an important role in making up the TV3 schedule. Upon its launch TV3's first daytime show was called Speakeasy it ran during the 1998/1999 season and was replaced by TV3's morning show Ireland AMIreland AM
Ireland AM is Ireland's only breakfast television programme. The show is broadcast live every weekday morning by TV3 and 3e.- Early years :...
. Speakeasy was a prerecorded chat show that opened TV3 each weekday during its opening year, it began at 12:00 and ran until 12:30. TV3 produced its own version of the Pepsi Chart Show which provided a countdown to the top 40 music sales for Ireland. It was broadcast in many European countries using different presenters from each region. This was later replaced by Dynamite TV which was similar in format to RTÉ
RTE
RTÉ is the abbreviation for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the public broadcasting service of the Republic of Ireland.RTE may also refer to:* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey...
's Top 30 Hits. TV3 had three other music shows, the first was Pop On 3 which was similar in format to RTÉ's 2TV
2TV
2TV was an Irish music programme broadcast on Sunday mornings on both Network 2 television and RTE 2fm radio from 1995 until at least 2001, even during the summer months...
, The Sound Room presented by Darragh Purcell and 3 cubed which was a late night non-stop broadcast of music videos. Messrs Tylak and Rooney was a short lived travel comedy series in which Joe Rooney
Joe Rooney
Joe Rooney is an Irish actor and comedian. His best known acting role at home and abroad is that of Father Damo in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. He features in one episode, series two's "The Old Grey Whistle Theft"...
and Paul Tykla travelled around Ireland's tourist spots. In 2000, TV3 commissioned the dating game Perfect Match hosted by Twink (Adele King
Adele King
Adele King is an Irish entertainer better known as Twink from her time as a member of a group called Maxi, Dick and Twink which was a girl band in Ireland in the late 1960s and 1970s. She is Chloë Agnew's mother....
), this show only aired for one season. From 2001 TV3 began to produce Irish versions of hit international television shows including The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000 and will end its run in 2012 when its host Anne Robinson ends her contract. The original British version of the show airs around the world on BBC Entertainment...
hosted by Eamon Dunphy
Eamon Dunphy
Eamon Martin Dunphy is an Irish media personality, radio and television presenter, author, sports pundit, as well as a former professional football player. He is best known as a soccer analyst on Raidió Teilifís Éireann 's coverage of the Premier League and the UEFA Champions League. He was paid...
. In 2003, TV3 launched
The Dunphy Show
The Dunphy Show
The Dunphy Show is an Irish chat show hosted by Eamon Dunphy that aired for one series on TV3 in 2003. The programme featured guest interviews, audience participation and live music from guest music groups...
Eamon Dunphy
Eamon Dunphy
Eamon Martin Dunphy is an Irish media personality, radio and television presenter, author, sports pundit, as well as a former professional football player. He is best known as a soccer analyst on Raidió Teilifís Éireann 's coverage of the Premier League and the UEFA Champions League. He was paid...
, was built up to be a contender with RTÉ
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Raidió Teilifís Éireann is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1, 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31, 1961, making...
's The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show, sometimes referred to as The Late Late, or in some cases by the acronym LLS, is the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster and the official flagship television programme of Irish broadcasting company RTÉ...
. In spite of the flurry of media attention, The Dunphy Show's failed to perform to expectations, and was cancelled a week before the initial season was due to conclude. Popcorn, which regularly billed itself as "Ireland's favourite movie show" ran for 5 years and over 200 episodes before the axe fell - giving an irreverent look at the movie releases, both at the cinema and on DVD. In 2005, TV3 produced its second late night chat show hosted by Brendan Courtney
Brendan Courtney
Brendan Courtney is an Irish comedian and television presenter, the first openly gay presenter in Ireland. He has hosted Wanderlust on RTÉ Two, The Brendan Courtney Show on TV3, Playdate on ITV2 and Off the Rails on RTÉ One.-Career:Brendan began his career on RTÉ Two's Wanderlust and ITV1's Love...
and called The Brendan Courtney Show which lasted for only two seasons, it aired Wednesdays at 22:00. Richard Eberle and Maura Derrane presented The Property Game for TV3 the same year.
Since 2007, TV3 has increased its Irish entertainment programmes Xposé
Xposé
Xposé is an Irish entertainment/celebrity gossip programme, broadcast weekday evenings at 6pm on TV3, with a repeat the following day at 12:50pm on TV3 and again at 6.30pm on 3e .-History and format:...
began airing in April 2007. It is an entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
and celebrity
Celebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...
focused show airing weeknights at 18.00. Beauty tips, fashion segments and celebrity interviews are the main components of the show. An Irish version of Deal Or No Deal
Deal or No Deal (Ireland)
Deal or No Deal is the Irish version of the Endemol game show, which first broadcast on TV3 in the Republic of Ireland on Friday 13 November 2009. The show is hosted by magician and entertainer Keith Barry...
in association with the Irish National Lottery
National Lottery (Ireland)
The National Lottery is the state lottery of Ireland. It was founded when the Oireachtas passed the to support initiatives in the areas of sport and recreation, health and welfare, national heritage and the arts, and the Irish language. Since gaming operations began on 23 March 1987, over €3.6...
was launched in 2009. It is produced by Endemol
Endemol
Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland,...
for TV3. It has not returned to the schedule since its first run. In 2010 TV3 launched an Irish version of the hit international dating show Take Me Out for their 2010/2011 schedule'. Take Me Out is presented by Today FM
Today FM
Radio Ireland Ltd, trading as 100-102 Today FM is an Irish commercial FM radio station which is available nationally. The station, which commenced broadcasting on Saint Patrick's Day in 1997, can be received nationally and carries a mix of music and talk...
presenter Ray Foley. They also plan a second dating series called Pecking Order in which 5 girls rate themselves as they see guys rating them.
A second season of Take me Out was announced on 18 August 2011. Give Adele a Bell hosted by Adele King, Deception hosted by Keith Barry, an Irish version of Alan Hughes Family Fortunes
Family Fortunes (TV3)
Family Fortunes is an Irish television game show, based on the American game show Family Feud and the UK equivalent Family Fortunes. The programme will air on on TV3 Ireland as part of its autumn/winter 2011 schedule. An official air-date has yet to be confirmed. The show will air every Saturday...
and the Irish version of the classic quiz show Mastermind
Mastermind (TV3)
Mastermind is an Irish television quiz show to air on TV3 as part of its autumn/winter 2011 schedule. The show is licenced to TV3 through BBC Worldwide. Mastermind hosts local versions in the United Kingdom, and previously in Australia, America, India and an International version.The show is based...
were announced as part of the 2011 schedule, while Adele King returns to TV3 with Give Adele a Bell.
Reality television
TV3's first reality TV series was Haunted House. It started in May 2002. Haunted House started out with about 26 contestants who would be ultimately voted out of the Haunted House by the public. The tasks where similar to that of I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.In 2006 reality TV3 produced their second reality TV series. The Box, fronted by Keith Duffy
Keith Duffy
Keith Peter Thomas Francis John Duffy is an Irish singer-songwriter, actor, drummer, dancer and television presenter. He began his career as part of Boyzone in the 1990s. In the 2000s, he achieved critical acclaim for his acting roles, particularly in soap operas such as Coronation Street and Fair...
, debuted on Monday 9 October 2006.
The Apprentice
The Apprentice (Irish TV series)
The Apprentice is an Irish reality television series, in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a job as "apprentice" to business magnate Bill Cullen....
is a localised version of the original Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
reality series, the first series of which was broadcast in autumn 2008. The show returned in autumn 2009, making it the first time that a prime time TV3 show was renew following the first season. The Apprentice won the Best Entertainment Category at the 2009 IFTA
Irish Film and Television Awards
The Irish Film and Television Awards were first awarded in 2003. Its sole aim is to celebrate Ireland's notably talented film and television community...
awards. TV3 snubbed the ceremony due to their concern over the number of RTÉ staff in the Academy. As part of the second series TV3 also launched their version of The Apprentice: You're Fired!
The Apprentice: You're Fired!
The Apprentice: You're Fired!, sometimes named You're Fired!, The Apprentice: You're Hired! or You're Hired!, is a British television show made by the BBC and filmed at Riverside Studios as a spin-off from the reality TV hit The Apprentice...
the spin-off show hosted by Brendan O'Connor
Brendan O'Connor (journalist)
Brendan O'Connor is an Irish journalist, comedian, media personality and retired pop star. Since 2010 he has presented The Saturday Night Show on RTÉ One. O'Connor is a columnist for the Sunday Independent, and is editor of the newspaper's Life Magazine.O'Connor's pop career has included a stint...
. Brendan O'Connor left the series for his chat show The Saturday Night Show
The Saturday Night Show
The Saturday Night Show is an Irish chat show hosted by Brendan O'Connor that has been broadcast on RTÉ One since 2010. The show features guest interviews, audience participation and live music...
on rival network RTÉ One, Anton Savage replaced him as host of The Apprentice: You're Fired!. They have also added The Apprentice: At Home to the 3rd season.
On 21 April 2009 it was announced that the main presenter of Xposé
Xposé
Xposé is an Irish entertainment/celebrity gossip programme, broadcast weekday evenings at 6pm on TV3, with a repeat the following day at 12:50pm on TV3 and again at 6.30pm on 3e .-History and format:...
(Lorraine Keane) was to leave the series. TV3 announced a nationwide search for a new presenter of the show, on the 4th of June they announce that Michael O'Doherty
Michael O'Doherty (publisher)
Michael O'Doherty is a television talent judge, newspaper writer and the publisher of the VIP magazine group in Ireland. He is originally from Killiney in County Dublin, and was educated at Sandford Park School in Dublin and studied English and French at Trinity College, Dublin to undergraduate...
, Emma Ledden
Emma Ledden
Emma Ledden is an Irish television presenter and model. She began her television career on Raidió Teilifís Éireann's children's strand, The Den, in the mid-1990s....
and Gerry Lundberg would judge the applicants on a new TV show called Total Xposure
Total Xposure
Total Xposure is a seven-week reality television show broadcast by TV3 in Ireland It involved a nationwide search to find a new presenter for the channel's prime time entertainment magazine programme Xposé...
. On the 11th of June Sean Munsanje was declared the winner of Total Xposure
Total Xposure
Total Xposure is a seven-week reality television show broadcast by TV3 in Ireland It involved a nationwide search to find a new presenter for the channel's prime time entertainment magazine programme Xposé...
, winning a 6 month contract with TV3 as the newest member of the Xposé
Xposé
Xposé is an Irish entertainment/celebrity gossip programme, broadcast weekday evenings at 6pm on TV3, with a repeat the following day at 12:50pm on TV3 and again at 6.30pm on 3e .-History and format:...
Team, which was not renewed.
Celebrity Salon began on the channel on Monday 7 June 2010. It follows six celebrities (Brian Dowling
Brian Dowling
Brian Patrick Robert Dowling is an Irish television presenter who rose to fame after being crowned the winner of the second series of UK reality television show Big Brother in 2001. He also won Ultimate Big Brother in 2010, making him the ultimate Big Brother housemate...
, Pippa O'Connor, Leigh Arnold, Virginia Macari, Celia Holman Lee
Celia Holman Lee
Celia Holman Lee is an Irish model, fashion stylist and television presenter.Celia Holman Lee started out as a model at the age of 15 while still at school after being approached while working as a shop assistant...
and Breffny Morgan) as they train over a 12 day period to become hairdressers. A fashion reality TV series Style Wars began in June 2010 to searched for Ireland's top fashion designer in a similar format to Project Runway
Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme...
. The same year they produced a localized version of the BBC Three series Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum.
Head Chef
Head Chef
Head Chef is an Irish cookery series onTV3, one of Ireland's national broadcasters. The series featured Conrad Gallagher, the youngest ever chef to win a Michelin star, and aired from 8 April 2011 to 27 May 2011. It was announced 30 May 2011 via Twitter that Celebrity Head Chef will be airing in...
aired on TV3 from 8 April 2011 to 27 May 2011 and was won by Harry Marquart. A Celebrity version of the show (Celebrity Head Chef
Head Chef
Head Chef is an Irish cookery series onTV3, one of Ireland's national broadcasters. The series featured Conrad Gallagher, the youngest ever chef to win a Michelin star, and aired from 8 April 2011 to 27 May 2011. It was announced 30 May 2011 via Twitter that Celebrity Head Chef will be airing in...
) is coming soon and applications are currently being accepted for Junior Head Chef
Head Chef
Head Chef is an Irish cookery series onTV3, one of Ireland's national broadcasters. The series featured Conrad Gallagher, the youngest ever chef to win a Michelin star, and aired from 8 April 2011 to 27 May 2011. It was announced 30 May 2011 via Twitter that Celebrity Head Chef will be airing in...
.
TV3 announced a new Irish version of the international reality format Come Dine With Me
Come Dine With Me (Ireland)
Come Dine With Me is a TV3 television programme shown in Ireland, first broadcast in June 6,2011. The show has five amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each competitor then rates the host's performance with the winner winning a €1,000 cash...
for their 2010/2011 schedule which will be produced by ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
for the channel. A second series of Celebrity Salon began airing in June 2011 along with Irish version of Come Dine With Me.
A second series of Come Dine With Me was announced on 18 August 2011 along with a third series of Celebrity Salon and a fourth series of The Apprentice. Other reality programmes for 2011 include Tallafornia (Simial to RTÉ's Fade Street and ITV2's The Only Way is Essex) and Tearaway Teen to Beauty Queen (Similar to Channel 5's Asbo Teen To Beauty Queen and ITV's Ladette to Lady).
Drama
TV3 is not known for vast amount of TV drama. In 2008 it produced its first one-off drama School Run, made in Ireland for TV3 with the assistance of the BCI's Sound and Vision Fund. It was the first original Irish drama produced by the station and aired at Christmas 2008. In 2009 broadcast Laura Windermere's Bag a contemporary adaptation of the Oscar WildeOscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
play Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893...
set on the south of Dublin - this also received funding from the Sound and Vision Fund.
The Tudors
The Tudors
The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
is made in Ireland for Showtime, but shown by TV3. Another series, Rock Rivals
Rock Rivals
Rock Rivals is a British television drama series following the lives of two celebrity judges on an X Factor style show as their marriage falls apart. It was produced by Shed Productions, the company behind Footballers' Wives, Bad Girls and Waterloo Road...
, was filmed in Ireland for ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
in the UK and shown by the station in early 2008.
During November 2009 rival broadcaster RTÉ
RTE
RTÉ is the abbreviation for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the public broadcasting service of the Republic of Ireland.RTE may also refer to:* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey...
announced that their hit medical drama, The Clinic
The Clinic (TV series)
The Clinic is an award-winning Irish primetime television medical drama series produced by Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ. It debuted on RTÉ One in 2003 to positive reviews and proved to be one of the network's most popular shows. The show ran for seven seasons between September 2003 to November...
, was cancelled after seven series. Rumours spread around the Internet that TV3 were in talks with producers of the show. On 26 November, TV3's Xposé confirmed the reports, and TV3's Director of Programming, Ben Frow, confirmed that the station has been in talks with the shows producers, to bring the show to the station. On Monday, 29 March 2010 Leigh Arnold - who starred in The Clinic - revealed on the Podge and Rodge
Podge and Rodge
Pádraig Judas O'Leprosy and Rodraig Spartacus O'Leprosy are the two central characters on A Scare at Bedtime, an Irish adult comedy televised puppet show. Created and performed by Ciaran Morrison and Mick O'Hara, more recently, the brothers have presented The Podge and Rodge Show, a chat show in...
show on RTÉ Two
RTÉ Two
RTÉ Two is a free-to-air general entertainment channel operated by Irish state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Two is available throughout the island of Ireland through digital terrestrial service Saorview, VHF and UHF bands, and is also available via satellite to Irish subscribers of...
that TV3 will not be taking on the series.
TV3 announcedThe Guards as part of the 2009/2010 season. Initially slated for early 2010 the series has been pushed back again until late summer 2010, however reports suggest that the series has increase its number of episodes from two episodes to six. The producers of the show are actively promoting the series as Ireland's answer to The Wire
The WIRE
the WIRE is the student-run College radio station at the University of Oklahoma, broadcasting in a freeform format. The WIRE serves the University of Oklahoma and surrounding communities, and is staffed by student DJs. The WIRE broadcasts at 1710 kHz AM in Norman, Oklahoma...
. as of 2011 the series has not aired on TV3 and seems unlikely. In 2010 both TV3 and RTL produced Irish based Jack Taylor series.
TV3 and ITV will co-produce Titantic which will air in 2012.
Children's TV
In its first year TV3 produced its own Children's strand called Gimme 3. It was presented by Hector and Clodagh. Hector was none other than TG4TG4
TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....
star Hector Ó hEochagáin
Hector Ó hEochagáin
Hector Ó hEochagáin is an Irish television and radio presenter from Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland. He currently presents Breakfast with Hector weekday mornings on RTÉ 2fm.-Career:...
. It ran for one hour between 16:00 and 17:00, it included shows such as The Ren and Stimpy Show
The Ren and Stimpy Show
The Ren & Stimpy Show, often simply referred to as Ren & Stimpy, is an American animated television series, created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi for Nickelodeon. The series focuses on the titular characters: Ren Höek, a psychotic chihuahua, and Stimpson J. Cat, a good-natured, dimwitted cat...
& Conan the Adventurer
Conan the Adventurer (animated series)
Conan the Adventurer is an American animated television series adaptation of Conan the Barbarian, the literary character created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s. Produced by Jetlag Productions and Sunbow Productions, the series debuted on September 12, 1992, ran for 65 episodes and concluded on...
. It also aired a Sunday morning three hour show, using the same studio at their weekly show. Programmes shown included Conan And The Young Warriors, Hot Rod Dogs, Loggerheads and Brothers Flub. It was axed in 1999. Clodagh continued to introduce children's programming for a further 12 months in an untitled show. TV3 do not produce or broadcast any children's television now, however they will be showing a documentary on Irish children's television called The History of Irish Children's Television.
TV3 are planning a new children's TV service called 3Kids, which will time share with 3Classics, both will launch towards the end of 2012.
Factual
In early 2008, TV3 made a serious effort to produce more Irish programming in response to criticism of its schedule. Factual programmes launched as part of this change included Me and The Big C, charting different people's struggle with cancer; Inside and Out, a makeover show hosted by Sinead O' Carroll; Dirty Money: The Story of the Criminal Assets Bureau, a crime documentary fronted by Paul Williams and Diary of... which followed six people as they went through life-changing events.The autumn 2008 schedule continued this trend, with several Irish produced series including Now Then: How the Irish Have Sex, CCTV Cities with Donal MacIntyre
Donal MacIntyre
Donal MacIntyre is an Irish investigative journalist, specialising in investigations, undercover operations and television exposés. His work is in the area of care homes for the elderly and the learning disabled...
, Living With Murder, presented by Maura Derrane, and Corrupt - examining corruption in Ireland. Crunch Time was a three part documentary exploring Ireland's property crisis.
Many of TV3's factual programming is produced with the assistance of the licence fee through the BCI's Sound and Vision Fund or are produced in house by TV3's News and Information Department. The Cosmetic Surgery Show that looks at the world of cosmetic surgery presented by Dr. 90210
Dr. 90210
Dr. 90210 is an American reality television series focusing on plastic surgery in the wealthy suburb of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, Southern California. The series began its run in 2004. Dr...
and Caroline Morahan
Caroline Morahan
Caroline Morahan is an Irish actress and television host. She presents TV fashion show Off the Rails on RTÉ One. She has hosted numerous television shows including The Fame Game, Chance to Dance, The Podge and Rodge Show and The IFTA's Red Carpet Show, and has been a celebrity judge on talent shows...
was broadcast in 2009.
TV3 announced a new raft of TV documentaries for 2011 including The Irish of 9/11, The Hospice, Paul Connelly Investigates, Anatomy of a Car Crash, Challenging God, 24 Hours to Kill, The Day the Germans Bombed Dublin, The Rise and Fall of Fianna Fáil, Sex Lives, Hen Parties, Paddies in Paradise, Strictly Irish Dancing, Ireland's Disco Kids, Dejunk Your Life and Ireland's Top Teens.
TV3 are planning a Documentary/Film channel called 3Classics, which will time share with 3Kids, both will launch towards the end of 2012.
3 Cubed
In the early 2000s TV3 launched a late night interactive music service. 3 Cubed aired each day from 1am to 6am. Audiences were invited to send text messages to the show and to send in requests via a premium rate phone number.Play TV
Play TV was an interactive phone-in quizQuiz channel
A quiz channel is a television channel that focuses on phone-in quizzes. The quizzes usually focus on puzzles, such as filling in blanks, identifying subjects, or other forms of word puzzles....
show on TV3; it ran from May 2009 until March 2010.
On the 21st of September 2009 callers to the Liveline
LiveLine
Liveline is an Irish radio interview and phone-in chat show broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 each weekday afternoon between 13.45 and 15.00. The programme, which is currently presented by Joe Duffy and known for its slogan "Talk to Joe", seeks the public's opinion on various questions, normally one or more...
radio show on RTÉ Radio 1
RTÉ Radio 1
RTÉ Radio 1 is the principal radio channel of Irish public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and is the direct descendant of Dublin radio station 2RN, which began broadcasting on a regular basis on 1 January 1926...
complained about the phone charges and methods surrounding TV3's late night quiz show Play TV. Host Joe Duffy stated that many of his listeners and callers to the show had not got a satisfactory reply from TV3 in relation to their complaints and hence his reason for this section of the his show, TV3 were unwilling to be a part of the discussion show having been asked by RTÉ Radio. Some of the contestants had not been paid their prize money. TV3 advised viewers who played the game to go to RegTel with any complaints.
On 25 September 2009 the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland was established on 1 October 2009 effectively replacing the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland ....
met to review 20 complaints made to it by individuals in relation to Play TV; 15 were upheld, 1 was rejected, 1 was determined to be invalid and 2 remained under investigation.
In January 2010 the compliance committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland up held 10 more complaints against TV3. In February the BAI up held 3 more complaints.
On 5 March 2010 TV3 announced that Play TV's contract was terminated immediately. In their statement they put the removal of the "infomercial" down purely to audience figures rather than the complaints received and upheld by the BAI. They did not apologize for their conduct.
At the launch of TV3's Autumn (18 August 2010) schedule David McRedmond (CEO TV3) was interviewed by The Irish Times
The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays...
where he admitted mistakes had been made but and admitted that Play TV was axed not just due to falling audience figures but also to the bad press and the regulators constant scrutiny of the show. He still refused to apologize to viewers on behalf of TV3 again stating that “It was an essential part of getting us through the recession” regardless of what the BAI called a “misleading and unfair” programme.
Brain Box
Brain BoxBrain Box
Brain Box was a live, interactive quiz show, showing in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on UTV, and in Scotland on STV, airing every night, beginning after midnight....
is an interactive phone-in quiz
Quiz channel
A quiz channel is a television channel that focuses on phone-in quizzes. The quizzes usually focus on puzzles, such as filling in blanks, identifying subjects, or other forms of word puzzles....
show on UTV
UTV
UTV is a television channel based in the UK region of Northern Ireland. The channel is the Channel 3 or Independent Television licensee for Northern Ireland and is operated by UTV Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media.- Terrestrial :* Analogue: Normally tuned to 3 * Freeview : 3...
and STV. As part of their Autumn schedule 2010 TV3 announced the re-broadcast of UTV
UTV
UTV is a television channel based in the UK region of Northern Ireland. The channel is the Channel 3 or Independent Television licensee for Northern Ireland and is operated by UTV Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media.- Terrestrial :* Analogue: Normally tuned to 3 * Freeview : 3...
's Brainbox TV show. The show began airing on TV3 on 9 September 2010, just 7 months after the axing of the controversial Play TV
Play TV Ireland
Play TV was a late night/early morning phone-in quiz show produced by Telemedia InteracTV and broadcast by TV3 Ireland from May 2009 – March 2010. The show was broadcast live every night of the week, Monday to Sunday, from 12:00am to 3:00am from InteracTV's headquarters in Budapest, Hungary...
. It ceased broadcasting less than a week later.
Imported programming
In its early years, the station aired a large amount of US programmes such as Sex and the CitySex and the City
Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...
, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Just Shoot Me!
Just Shoot Me!
Just Shoot Me! is an American television sitcom that aired for seven seasons on NBC from March 4, 1997 to August 16, 2003, with 148 episodes produced. The show was created by Steven Levitan, the show's executive producer.-Description:...
. US programming has become less of an attraction on TV3 with many of their US shows airing on their sister channel 3e.
In the early years of TV3 introduced two UK soaps to Irish Audiences Family Affairs
Family Affairs
Family Affairs was a British soap opera broadcast on Five, from 1997 to 2005. It was the second programme to be broadcast on the channel on 30 March 1997, the channel's launch night...
(which was broadcast 18 months after Channel 5) and EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
(which was broadcast with advertising simultaneously with BBC 1), and also the short lived Australian soap Breakers
Breakers (TV series)
Breakers is an Australian television series made by the Network Ten between 1998 and 1999. It was shown in Ireland on TV3 and City Channel. It was also screened on BBC1 in the United Kingdom and TV4 in New Zealand.-Premise:...
and the US soap Sunset Beach
Sunset Beach (TV series)
Sunset Beach was an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California...
. TV3 broadcast of Family Affairs ended in June 2007, and was initially replace by Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
's Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...
. Due to the high number of Irish viewers with Channel 4 TV3's broadcast of the show soon ended, TV3 were a month behind Channel 4 unlike their ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
soaps which are simultaneously broadcast and unlike Family Affairs as five is not as prevalent in the Republic of Ireland. Hollyoaks was then replaced by the short lived The Royal Today
The Royal Today
The Royal Today was a British medical soap opera, a spin-off of the similarly themed drama, The Royal. The concept is that whilst The Royal is set in the late 1960s, The Royal Today featured the same hospital in the present day, with a new set of characters working in the same location...
and finally by repeats of Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
in 2009 with their takeover of Channel 6 now 3e
3E
3E or 3-E may refer to:*3e, general entertainment channel operated in Ireland*3rd meridian east*Third edition in the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons*NY 3E, alternate name for New York State Route 104*OK-3E, abbreviation for Oklahoma State Highway 3...
.
Following Granada/ITV's acquisition of a 45% share in the station in 2000 (which ended in 2006), Granada allowed TV3 to simulcast several of its programmes including soaps like Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
and Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
(both previously aired on RTÉ One
RTÉ One
RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...
) as well as drama series such asBad Girls
Bad Girls (TV series)
Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...
and Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006...
. TV3 also simulcast EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
from 1998 to 2001 (EastEnders is now broadcasting on RTÉ One
RTÉ One
RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...
and has been doing so since 2001). ITV reality shows including The X Factor
The X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...
, Dancing on Ice
Dancing on Ice
Dancing on Ice is a British television show co-hosted by Christine Bleakley and Philip Schofield, in which celebrities and their professional partners figure skate in front of a panel of judges. The format, devised by LWT and Granada Television, has been a prime-time hit in eight different...
,I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...
are also simulcast on the station. In 2010 TV3 began broadcasting the BBC'sOver the Rainbow
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in the movie...
, initially broadcast on Saturday night but moved to Sunday nights to make room for ITV's Britain's Got Talent.
With regards to its daytime schedule, TV3's programming mainly consists of repeats of Coronation Street and Emmerdale, as well as UK and US versions of lifestyle shows such as Judge Judy
Judge Judy
Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...
, 10 Years Younger US, The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, The Jeremy Kyle Show
The Jeremy Kyle Show
The Jeremy Kyle Show is an award-winning British daytime television tabloid talk show presented by Jeremy Kyle that has been broadcast on ITV since 4 July 2005. The show is recorded and produced by Granada Television at the Granada Studios on Quay Street in Manchester city centre and broadcast each...
and The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. Debuting on September 8, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBC Universal. For its first five seasons, the show...
.
Along with the UK's X-factor TV3 will broadcast the US version of the TV show The X Factor US starting 8 September 2011. Other imports include the US version of Prime Suspect and the return of ITV's Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey is a British television period drama series, produced by NBC Universal-owned British media company Carnival Films for the ITV network. The series is set during the late Edwardian era and the First World War on the fictional estate of Downton Abbey in Yorkshire, and features an...
.
TV3 currently show the following US programmes, Glee
Glee (TV series)
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
, V, Modern Family
Modern Family
Modern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, which debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan serve as showrunner and executive producers, under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label...
, and Law & Order:SVU. American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
has been broadcast on TV3 quite close to its American airing for several years now.
On-air presentation
| TV3 Network Ireland Ltd logo 1998 - 2006 | TV3 Network Ireland Ltd logo 2006 - 2009 | The TV3 Group's Current Logo 2009–present |
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September 1998 to July 2000: The original logo and design for the channel was devised by Dynamo. In the lead up to the network's launch, TV3's logo was unveiled during promotion ads on RTÉ
RTE
RTÉ is the abbreviation for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the public broadcasting service of the Republic of Ireland.RTE may also refer to:* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey...
and TG4
TG4
TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....
. The logo consisted of a redesigned number 3. The upper half of the 3 was separated from the lower half, the two halves came together to form 2 swooshing arches that would form the 3. There were a number of different idents from September 1998 to July 2000 including 'Bubbles', 'Camera Lenses', 'Robot', 'Umbrella', 'Fan', 'Planets', 'Children's Toy', 'Bumper Cars' and 'Roller-Coaster'. Each of the idents would end with a girl whispering the word 'three' a number of times.
July 2000 to September 2003 In July 2000, TV3 developed new idents. The new idents removed the words 'tvthree' from beneath the stylized 3 logo. The project was directed by Dynamo's creative head of broadcast media, Brian Williams. These were TV3's first idents to feature live action - actors would be seen in the background of the logo doing various day-to-day activities with the 3 logo spinning around to reveal itself. In 2001, some of these idents would have characters from Granada TV programming appear in the background, such as characters from Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
, Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
and Heartbeat.
September 2003 to March 2006: In September 2003, TV3 again launched a new set of idents. Again, this series of idents consisted of live action scenes. The final scene would see a large 'swoosh' effect in the center of the screen with the 3 logo appearing in the centre of the screen. These idents consisted of outdoor activities such as a walk at the beach, children playing football, children playing, people walking over the Ha'penny bridge
Ha'penny Bridge
The Ha'penny Bridge , known later for a time as the Penny Ha'penny Bridge, and officially the Liffey Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge built in 1816 over the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland...
etc. The presentation package was produced by Bruce Dunlop Associates.
March 2006 - January 2009: In March 2006, TV3 took steps to rebrand as Channel 6 (now 3e
3E
3E or 3-E may refer to:*3e, general entertainment channel operated in Ireland*3rd meridian east*Third edition in the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons*NY 3E, alternate name for New York State Route 104*OK-3E, abbreviation for Oklahoma State Highway 3...
) in an attempt to become a competitor in the Irish market. These idents consisted of live action scenes often involving the number 3 such as 3 drops of water into a river. The 3 logo now moved from just the stylized 3 into 3 circles with the stylized 3 in the last circle. The presentation package was produced by Cleverality.
January 2009 - August 2009: In January 2009, TV3 unveiled its new station logo - a simple sans-serif
Sans-serif
In typography, a sans-serif, sans serif or san serif typeface is one that does not have the small projecting features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. The term comes from the French word sans, meaning "without"....
number 3 similar in style to that of TV3 (Viasat)
TV3 (Viasat)
TV3 is the brand name used by Viasat's flagship channels in Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Slovenia. Viasat is part of the Swedish media company Modern Times Group...
's logo. This revamp co co-insided with the re-launch of Channel 6 as '3e'. Officially, the TV3 logo is that of a box with a 3 cut out of the right hand side - this design is used on all news programmes. However, the idents consisted of a set of simple graphical 3s in a domino effect with different colours such as grey, purple and blue. The idents were produced by Image Now.
August 2009 – August 2011: Between August 2009 and February 2009 TV3 introduced 8 new idents. The first two idents - known as 'Orchard' and 'Elevator' - launched TV3's live action idents. In September, a third ident entitled 'Wave' was added, followed in October by a fourth ident known as 'Bridge'. A edited version of the Bridge ident (to promote the series 'V'), a sixth new ident known as 'Dog' was introduced in November 2009 and in December 2009 the ident 'snowman' was added and in February 2010 the 8th ident was added 'bubbles'. TV3 has been working with Image Now to create these Idents.
August 2011 – Present: On Monday, August 22, 2011; TV3 revealed a new on-air look. While utilizing its existing logo, TV3 revealed new idents which are CGI in design and are based around specific themes i.e. crime, urban, entertainment. The new look idents were designed by Image Now who have previously worked on the channel's branding since 2009.
Continuity announcers
In-vision continuity links are broadcast during the 3 Daytime strand introduced in January 2008. This has since ended with the last in vision appearance in December 2009. The network employs two announcers - Conor Clear and Andrea Hayes. All announcements are pre-recorded unlike live continuity in RTE. Conor is also a host of "Monday Million" in association with the National Lottery.Criticism
Many media commentators have criticised TV3 for the lack of original programming on the station, although a major effort has been made in 2008 to deal with this criticism. The view of many commentators such as Stephen Price of The Sunday TimesThe Sunday Times (UK)
The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...
and Tom McGurk of The Sunday Business Post
The Sunday Business Post
The Sunday Business Post is an Irish national Sunday newspaper published by Post Publications Limited. Post Publications is owned by Thomas Crosbie Holdings. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Ireland, the average weekly circulation was 57,783 for the period January to June 2009. The...
is that TV3 need to differentiate themselves in the growing Irish multi-channel market by making more original programming than at present.
Many Irish people were shocked in December 2009 at the manner in which TV3 News disclosed that Finance Minister Brian Lenihan
Brian Lenihan, Jnr
Brian Joseph Lenihan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and barrister who served in the government of Ireland as Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform from 2007 to 2008 and as Minister for Finance from 2008 to 2011...
was suffering from a serious illness. Senior government sources spoke of "outrage" across the political spectrum at the insensitive content and tone of a news bulletin broadcast, which the station had earlier flagged as a "news story of national importance". However the station's decision was defended by the Irish Times and the political magazine the Phoenix
The Phoenix (magazine)
The Phoenix is Ireland's best selling political and current affairs magazine. Inspired by the British magazine Private Eye, and a source of investigative journalism in Ireland...
. The BAI ruled in favour of TV3 in relation to this announcement. Rejecting all 14 complaints made against TV3 to the regulator.
See also
- 3e3E3E or 3-E may refer to:*3e, general entertainment channel operated in Ireland*3rd meridian east*Third edition in the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons*NY 3E, alternate name for New York State Route 104*OK-3E, abbreviation for Oklahoma State Highway 3...
- List of television channels available in Ireland
- List of programmes broadcast by TV3 Ireland