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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.
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]
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.
RTÉ Television is a department of Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland's public service broadcaster. Its first channel was Telefís Éireann, which began broadcasting on 31 December 1961. [1] Since the 1960s, RTÉ Television has added channels and digital television service.
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]
RTÉ Television: 1961–2011, [92] which was launched by Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the National Museum in Dublin on 23 November 2011. [93] At 10:00 am on 24 October 2012 all analogue television transmissions ended in Ireland, [94] and RTÉ's television channels are now only available digitally on Saorview, satellite, and cable.
June – Architect Michael Scott was commissioned to design new television studios at Montrose, Donnybrook. 2 June – First meeting of the Radio Éireann Authority (later the RTÉ Authority), a seven-member board established by the Broadcasting Authority Act to make policy and guide corporate direction for radio and television in Ireland.
1970. 14 September – Ulster launches a colour television service, but only from the Divis transmitter.To mark the change, the logo is redesigned. [2]1971. The music used as part of the station's daily start-up routine is changed when The Antrim Road, a classical symphony composed by Wayne Hill and Earl Ward, replaced Seamus, written by the American musician, composer and bandleader Van ...