RTÉ News Now to be Replaced By RTÉ2 +1
Posted on Tuesday May 08, 2018

RTÉ have made an application to the Department of Communication, Climate Action and Environment, DCCAE, to replace RTÉ News Now with RTÉ2 +1. It was reveiled earlier in the year that RTÉ had made the application to drop RTÉ News Now by their Head of News, Jon Williams. At the Public Account Committee, PAC, RTÉ's Director General, Deirdre Forbes announced plans to introduce RTÉ2 +1.

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Virgin and TV3 Take Lions Share of Europe Soccer
Posted on Tuesday May 15, 2018

Virgin Media have taken the lions share of European Soccer for the next three years. RTÉ move their rights to Tuesday Night, while eirSports have lost all their rights to both the Champions League and the Europa League. It is not yet known how the extra games awarded to Virgin Media and TV3 will be shown. Currently the second choice matches air on pay operator eir, with first choice airing on RTÉ and TV3. BT Sport retain their non-exclusive rights to the games in Ireland.

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CSO Baby Name App
Posted on Monday December 11, 2017

Want to avoid those popular names or an old persons name well the CSO has an where you can see which unique name to call your child. Buzz for example or Lola who knows. The CSO will tell you how popular your name is or was in any given year, so for all you unique Buzzes and Lolas this is the online app for you. It shows each name registered from 1964 to 2016. Lola is surprisingly popular! Check out the app in the side panel

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RTE Washington Corresponent Announced
Posted on Friday December 01, 2017

RTE have announced Brian O'Donovan as their new Washington Correspondent, he takes over from Catriona Perry who was announced as one of the new co-hosts of Six-One News. Brian O''Donovan moved to RTÉ in 2015 as a multimedia journalist, he cut his teeth at TV3 as their business correspondent.

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TV3 holds its own in April
Posted on Friday May 11, 2018

TV3 have held on to much of their auience following March's Six Nations and Ireland's Got Talent, with an 18% share of the audience across all Virgin Media channels, is compares to a March figure of 19%. RTÉ saw a 4% drop in audience from March with the exiting of Striking Out, Room to Improve and DWTS. Overall RTÉ Channels had 25% of the audience compared to 24% in March.

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