Coimisiún na Meán, Ireland’s media regulator, has announced almost €6.4 million in funding for a wide range of new radio and TV productions as part of the latest round of the Sound & Vision scheme. Round 58 will support and promote new and culturally significant programmes for Irish audiences, including in the Irish language, for […]

DVB-I, the open specification for internet-based discovery and description of television services, is seeing global momentum following three new announcements. Firstly, Freeview New Zealand has announced it is working towards a nationwide production launch; additionally Ireland’s RTÉ has revealed plans for a closed technical trial of DVB-I for the Saorview platform; and thirdly Deutsche TV-Plattform […]

Satellite Connect Europe and Vodafone Ireland have completed Ireland’s first mobile video phone call, via an AST SpaceMobile satellite using a standard smartphone. The video call was made by Vodafone Ireland engineer Robert Ivers from an area of no mobile coverage on Clare Island, County Mayo, to Vodafone Ireland CEO Sabrina Casalta in Dublin. The […]

HBO Max, the SVoD service from Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), has made its long-awaited debut in the UK and Ireland, completing the service’s European rollout, with subscriptions starting at £4.99 per month for the Basic with Ads tier – which will be bundled into Sky TV subscriptions at no additional charge for eligible customers. The […]

Ireland’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal action brought by CNN against a decision made last year that favoured Rivada Networks and its CEO Declan Ganley. In a judgment on behalf of the three-judge Court of Appeal on March 13th, Judge Denis McDonald dismissed two appeals made by the CNN side. The first related […]

ComReg, Ireland’s Commission for Communications Regulation, has published the results of its 2025 Mobile Consumer Experience Survey. The survey results show the importance that Irish consumers place on their mobile phone service. Handset ownership is almost universal across the country, and of those with a handset, 93 per cent own a smartphone. Most users own […]

Speaking from the Space Comm Expo Europe event in London, Kevin French, the organiser of the conference dedicated exclusively to the satellite ground segment, has warned that the global success of data centres is at risk if barriers to their co-location with satellite ground stations are not removed. The advantages to placing a satellite ground […]

Influent Media will exclusively represent advertising sales for Disney+ in Ireland, coinciding with the launch of Disney+’s new Standard with Ads subscription tier in the country from March 3rd. The collaboration offers Irish advertisers the opportunity to reach audiences through pre-roll and mid-roll ad slots across Disney+’s content, which includes titles from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, […]

Coimisiún na Meán has become a member of WorldDAB – the global industry forum for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB+) radio. This comes following the announcement in 2025 that An Coimisiún supported a new DAB+ trial in Ireland, which began in April 2025. Membership of WorldDAB will allow An Coimisiún to share experiences and best practices […]

Premier Sports will broadcast exclusive coverage of the Ireland XV (Ireland A) v England A on February 6th as two of world rugby’s deepest player pathways go head-to-head in a fixture that has become a proving ground for future test internationals. The partnership with the IRFU follows Premier Sports’ UK broadcasts of two England A […]