Christina Hendricks and Paddy Considine will star in Sky Original Small Town, Big Story, a dramatic comedy created and directed by Chris O’Dowd (pictured). The new series from Playground and FilmNation Entertainment has started filming on location in Ireland and is expected to debut on Sky and streaming service NOW in the UK & Ireland […]
TNT Sports has announced an agreement with Disney Star, the global rights holder of ACC, to broadcast the Asia Cup 2023 cricket tournament live and exclusively across the UK and Ireland. TNT Sports will show the 2023 edition of the Asia Cup from August 30th to September 17th, bringing UK cricket fans closer to the […]
Sky has announced the launch of Sky Stream in Ireland allowing viewers to watch Sky entertainment streamed straight to any TV over Wi-Fi, without a dish. Available now online, in Sky retail stores or through Sky customer services, the service bundles Sky TV and Netflix together from €30 a month. JD Buckley, CEO at Sky […]
On July 8th – 9th BBC Sport NI will show live coverage of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Finals on BBC iPlayer, BBC Two Northern Ireland, streamed live on the BBC Sport NI website and on the BBC Sport App. It’s the first time the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Semi-Finals will be available to a Network […]
A research report relating to services used by the vision impaired to access television content has been released at an event hosted by Ireland’s newly-established media regulator Coimisiún na Meán. Entitled Investigating a Standardised Approach to Setting Audio Description Dip Values, the aim of the research is to understand better the relationship between audio-described TV programme […]
Following the uncovering of undisclosed payments to RTÉ’s top earner Ryan Tubridy, the broadcaster’s Director General Dee Forbes issued a statement and tendered her resignation “with immediate effect”. RTÉ has previously announced that Forbes had been suspended from her role. Minister for Media Catherine Martin has announced an external review of governance and culture at […]
RTÉ, Ireland’s national broadcaster, has suspended its director general over secret payments of €345,000. The board suspended Dee Forbes after the payments to TV and radio presenter Ryan Tubridy, between 2017 and 2020, came to light in an internal audit. The board apologised for what it said was a betrayal of public trust. Catherine Martin, […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, a licensee in Donegal, Ireland, has been ordered to pay €16,188 in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming illegally in their premises. A permanent court injunction prohibiting the licensee from showing Sky programming in the premises without the correct commercial viewing agreement from Sky […]
Coimisiún na Meán, Ireland’s newly-established media regulator and media development agency, has set out its work programme for the coming nine months. Highlights include: For the first time, online service providers will have legally binding obligations to take steps that make the Internet safer for everyone. Regulation will be extended to cover on-demand services, as […]
Virgin Media Ireland is launching 2Gbps fibre broadband in towns including Tralee, Killarney and Letterkenny, and continuing fibre network upgrades in areas such as Dublin, Cork and Louth. It says this is a milestone in its three-year transition to a full fibre network: at the end of 2021, it pledged to invest €200 million to […]