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RTÉ Regional Jobs Safe As London Office Closes |
| 21 Sep 2012 | RTÉ’s regional offices in Sligo, Dundalk, Athlone and Waterford are to remain in operation following a deal that will see them move premises to local institutes of technology. |
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Five Minutes With… ‘Game of Thrones’ Emmy Winners Ronan Hill & Mervyn Moore |
| 20 Sep 2012 | Northern Irish sound mixers Ronan Hill and Mervyn Moore each picked up a Creative Emmy Award last weekend for their work on HBO fantasy adventure ‘Game of Thrones’. Speaking to the BBC after their win, both men described their surprise and delight at the win: |
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‘Hill 16’ Doc To Air On TG4 On All-Ireland Final Day |
| 20 Sep 2012 | TG4 are to broadcast a new documentary about Hill 16 this Sunday (September 23) to coincide with the All-Ireland football final. |
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Sky and Warner Bros Agree Film Deal For Ireland |
| 19 Sep 2012 | Warner Brothers has signed a deal with BSkyB that will see Sky customers in Ireland and the UK get exclusive access to Warner releases six months after they end their cinema run. |
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Daily Bite: New BBC Chief To Put Programme Makers First |
| 18 Sep 2012 | New BBC chief pledges focus on quality… |
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Blinder and Piranha Bar Among Kinsale Sharks Winners |
| 17 Sep 2012 | A TV commercial for the ISPCC and an animated Olympics sting for Cadbury were among the big winners at the Kinsale Sharks advertising festival over the weekend. |
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RTÉ To Produce New Daytime Television Show From Cork |
| 14 Sep 2012 | RTÉ personalities Dáithí Ó’Sé, Maura Derrane, Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh and Norah Casey will all present a new daytime programme called ‘Today’ from RTÉ studios in Cork. |
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Netflix To Begin Hosting RTÉ Content |
| 14 Sep 2012 | RTÉ has signed a deal with Netflix that will see a number of its shows made available on the video-on-demand service in the UK and Ireland. |
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BeActive’s Irish Producer Triona Campbell Nominated For Entrepreneur Award |
| 13 Sep 2012 | Irish producer and company director Triona Campbell has been nominated for Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2012 by the Women Mean Business Conference and Awards. |
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Daily Bite: British Telecom Outbids Sky Once More To Become Major Sports Broadcast Player |
| 12 Sep 2012 | BT scores Premiership Rugby rights in €190m deal… |
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RTÉ To Publish Five-Year Strategy As Future of Irish TV Industry Debated |
| 10 Sep 2012 | RTÉ is to publish a “fully costed five-year strategy” by the end of the year that will “clearly indicate how RTÉ will change and reform” and outline the broadcaster’s view of “what we think the future will be how we think we should face that future,” RTÉ director general Noel Curran told TV50 delegates at University College Cork over the weekend. |
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Sony To Showcase IP HD Live Production System at IBC 2012 |
| 06 Sep 2012 | Sony is to unveil its NXL-IP55 live production unit at the International Broadcasting Convention, which gets underway in Amsterdam today. |
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TV50 Event To Examine Impact & Future of Irish Television |
| 06 Sep 2012 | RTÉ is hosting a TV50 conference on the future of television and its impact over the past 50 years in Dublin this Saturday, in partnership with University College Cork. |
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Daily Bite: Harvey Weinstein To Keynote At MIPCOM |
| 05 Sep 2012 | In today’s Daily Bite, it is announced that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will give the keynote speech at MIPCOM in October; BFI London Film Festival introduces a number of new structures ahead of its October start date; BBC makes it easier to view BBC iPlayer content and a first look at Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘What Richard Did’. |
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RTÉ’s Screens Heat Up With New Shows ‘Firefighters’ & ‘Format Farm’ |
| 30 Aug 2012 | RTÉ’s autumn schedule is heating up with new series’ ‘Firefighters’ and ‘Format Farm’ airing over the next seven days. |
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Interview: TG4 Pádhraic Ó Ciardha On The Station's Ever Evolving Future |
| 30 Aug 2012 | As Ireland’s only station dedicated to the Irish language, TG4 kicked off its new autumn schedule with a host of new Irish-based and Irish-made documentaries, as well as a number of new entertainment and reality-based shows. |
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More Than One Million Irish & UK Customers Subscribe To Netflix |
| 21 Aug 2012 | Online video streaming service Netflix has announced it has surpassed one million subscribers in Ireland and the UK, just seven months after its launch. |
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Brendan O’Carroll Lands New BBC Gameshow As Mrs Brown |
| 15 Aug 2012 | Mrs Brown has landed Irish comedian Brendan O’Carroll his own BBC gameshow, with the fictional Irish mother-of-five at the helm. |
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'Father Ted' Co-Creator Graham Linehan Signs Comedy Deal With Boom |
| 03 Aug 2012 | 'Father Ted' co-creator Graham Linehan has sold his Delightful Industries production company to former BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey’s UK-based Boom Pictures. |
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Three Irish Documentaries Shortlisted For Grierson Documentary Awards |
| 01 Aug 2012 | Three Irish documentaries have been shortlisted for this year’s Grierson Awards for Documentary Film. |
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