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Prior to Sky Digital, cable television was the most common system for distributing multi-channel television in Ireland. With more than 40 years of history and extensive networks of both wired and "wireless" cable , Ireland is amongst the most cabled countries in Europe.
20 September – Launch of TV3, the Republic of Ireland's first commercial television channel. [2] Early programming on the channel includes the UK soap EastEnders, the miniseries Merlin, the film The Quick and the Dead, [3] US comedy Just Shoot Me, and Breakers, a new Australian soap.
1979 in Irish television – The rural television soap The Riordans airs on television for the last time, transferring to radio. The children's television series Bosco debuts on RTÉ 2 . 1978 in Irish television – Ireland's second television channel, RTÉ 2 goes on air.
Cable (originally known in Ireland as "piped" television) first started in 1963, when several companies, including state broadcaster RTÉ, started relaying the UK's terrestrial TV channels in some cities and larger towns. Today all Irish cities and many larger towns have cable networks.
RTE News output on television was reduced to short news summaries. It ended on 17 February 1992 with a resolution reached between the unions and RTE management. [12] 28 December – The Irish language drama serial Ros na Rún is first aired on RTÉ Television as a series of 15-minute episodes. [1]
The following is a list of events related to television in Ireland during the 1950s. The television service for the Irish Republic did not begin until 1961, but preparations for its introduction were being made throughout the 1950s, while in Northern Ireland the first television service came on air in 1955 with the launch of the BBC television service for Northern Ireland.
Kee wrote and presented the documentary series Ireland – A Television History in 1980. The work was shown both in the United Kingdom and the United States and won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. Following the series' transmission on RTÉ, the Irish national broadcaster, Kee won a Jacob's Award for his script and presentation. [6]
RTÉ Television: 1961–2011, [94] which was launched by Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the National Museum in Dublin on 23 November 2011. [95] At 10:00 am on 24 October 2012 all analogue television transmissions ended in Ireland, [96] and RTÉ's television channels are now only available digitally on Saorview, satellite, and cable.