2016 in Irish television
The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 2016.
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Events
- 17 January – The Sunday Business Post reports Virgin Media Ireland have plans to launch additional TV3 channels including a 24-hour rolling news channel.[1] The TV3 Group later denies such reports.
- 20 January – RTÉ announces that it has partnered with Freesat, the UK free-to-air television company, to develop a new product for Saorview, Ireland’s free digital television service and the largest television platform in Ireland.[2]
- 24 April – Michael Lawson wins the fifth series of The Voice of Ireland.
- 7 June – Children's strand 3Kids launches on 3e.
- 3 July – Irish TV has received ministerial approval from Minister for Communications Denis Naughten to launch on the Irish Digital Terrestrial Saorview platform.[3]
- 5 July – Following the purchase of Setanta Sports' Irish operations by Eircom, Setanta Sports Ireland is renamed Eir Sport 1 and Setanta Sports 1 is renamed Eir Sport 2.
- 11 July – ITV plc announces that it has sold UTV Ireland to TV3 Group for €10 million. As part of the deal, TV3 Group inherits UTV Ireland's ten-year program supply contract with ITV.[4]
- 3 August – RTÉ announces its intention to replace The Voice of Ireland with an Irish version of Strictly Come Dancing.[5]
- 18 November – Jennifer Zamparelli and Nicky Byrne are chosen to present RTÉ One's forthcoming series Dancing with the Stars.
- 22 November – It is announced that Coronation Street and Emmerdale will move from UTV Ireland back to TV3 beginning on 5 December.[6]
- 1 December – TV3's The 7 O'Clock Show is moved forward an hour and renamed The 6 O'Clock Show in order to facilitate the return of Emmerdale and Coronation Street to the channel.
- 6 December – It is announced that TV3, along with 3e and its newly purchased channel UTV Ireland, will receive new logos, idents and new schedules.[7]
- 21 December – Irish TV confirms it will cease broadcasting.
Debuts
RTÉ
- 3 January – Rebellion on RTÉ One
- 1 February – Bridget & Eamon on RTÉ Two
- 10 February – 1916: The Irish Rebellion. (First part of a 3-part documentary) on RTÉ One.[8]
- 21 April - First Dates on RTÉ Two
- 6 November – Know The Score on RTÉ One
TV3
- 20 September - The Tonight Show
Ongoing television programmes
1960s
- RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock (1961–present)
- RTÉ News: Six One (1962–present)
- The Late Late Show (1962–present)
1970s
- The Late Late Toy Show (1975–present)
- RTÉ News on Two (1978–present)
- The Sunday Game (1979–present)
1980s
- Fair City (1989–present)
- RTÉ News: One O'Clock (1989–present)
1990s
- Would You Believe (1990s–present)
- Winning Streak (1990–present)
- Prime Time (1992–present)
- Nuacht RTÉ (1995–present)
- Nuacht TG4 (1996–present)
- Ros na Rún (1996–present)
- TV3 News (1998–present)
- Ireland AM (1999–present)
- Telly Bingo (1999–present)
2000s
- Nationwide (2000–present)
- TV3 News at 5.30 (2001–present) – now known as the 5.30
- Against the Head (2003–present)
- news2day (2003–present)
- Other Voices (2003–present)
- Saturday Night with Miriam (2005–present)
- The Week in Politics (2006–present)
- Tonight with Vincent Browne (2007–2017)
- Xposé (2007–2019)
- At Your Service (2008–present)
- Championship Live (2008–present) – Now rebranded as GAA on 3
- Operation Transformation (2008–present)
- 3e News (2009–present)
- Dragons' Den (2009–present)
- Two Tube (2009–present)
2010s
- Jack Taylor (2010–present)
- Love/Hate (2010–present)
- Mrs. Brown's Boys (2011–present)
- The GAA Show (2011–present)
- MasterChef Ireland (2011–present)
- Irish Pictorial Weekly (2012–present)
- Today (2012–present)
- The Works (2012–present)
- Deception (2013–present)
- Celebrity MasterChef Ireland (2013–present)
- Second Captains Live (2013–present)
- Claire Byrne Live (2015–present)
- The Restaurant (2015–present)
- Red Rock (2015–present)
- TV3 News at 8 (2015–present)
- Ireland Live (2015–2017)
Ending this year
- 24 April - The Voice of Ireland (2012–2016)
- 28 October – The Fall (2013–2016)
- 23 December – Midday (2008–2016)
- Unknown date - Republic of Telly (2009–2016) and The Mario Rosenstock Show (2012–2016)
Deaths
- 31 January – Terry Wogan, 77, Irish-British radio and television broadcaster.[9]
gollark: I'm pretty sure we generally do have greater actual prosperity than we did, I don't know, 100 years ago..
gollark: Insufficient incentives for them to be non-weird?
gollark: You can tell from the very long words.
gollark: Looks like it.
gollark: I don't think it makes sense to give some people more or less voting power depending on where they live, especially since it's in a convoluted way and based on ancient borders which were probably kind of arbitrarily picked.
See also
References
- Sexton, Colette. "TV3 plans 24-hour news channel - BusinessPost.ie".
- Saorview. "Saorview | News | RTÉ and Saorview partner with Freesat to deliver a next-generation product for Irish audiences". www.saorview.ie. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- Big boost for mayo based Irish TV station as Saorview deal extends its reach by Michael Brennan and Colette Sexton, Business Post, 3 July 2016.
- "TV3 owner Virgin Media buys UTV Ireland for €10m". Irish Times. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- "RTÉ drops The Voice for Dancing with the Stars". RTÉ. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
- "The rovers return: TV3 is getting Emmerdale and Corrie back". The Journal. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- Brennan, Cianan. "UTV Ireland is to be relaunched... as the "female orientated" Be3". Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- "1916 documentary on RTE One review: 'A big, lavishly produced slab of prestige television'". Irish Independent. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- "Sir Terry Wogan: Veteran broadcaster dies, aged 77". BBC News. 31 January 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
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