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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. Also on 24 October 2012, for the first time RTÉ 1 and RTÉ 2 were broadcast from transmitters within Northern Ireland on the UK Freeview system.
Commercial television companies have alleged that RTÉ unfairly uses licence fee to outbid them for broadcast rights to foreign films, TV series, and sports events. RTÉ denies this. [ citation needed ] European Community competition law prevents state funding of commercial activity, and RTÉ's accounts charge for non-" public service ...
In 2019, the Register of Beneficial Ownership was introduced into Ireland. That was implemented on the back of the EU’s Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which essentially requires all member states to hold adequate, accurate and current information of all beneficial owners. A beneficial owner is someone who owns more than 25% of a company.
Location of Ireland. This is a list of notable companies based in Ireland, or subsidiaries according to their sector.It includes companies from the entire island. The state of the Republic of Ireland covers five-sixths of the island, with Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, covering the remainder in the north-east.
In Ireland, a television licence is required for any address at which there is a television set or device not exempted under Statutory Instrument 319 of 2009. [57] In 2008, the annual licence fee is €160. [58] Revenue is collected by An Post, the Irish postal service.
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 ]
The company formed to acquire the network from Morgan Stanley is "UPC Ireland N.V.", fuelling speculation this will be the eventual name. A combined company would own all the MMDS licences and almost all the cable licences in the Republic of Ireland (the local networks in Dungarvan , County Waterford and Longford town being the only major ...
The Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC) was established under the terms of the Radio and Television Act 1988. [1] This act allowed the first legal stations not operated by RTÉ, the national broadcaster, to come into existence. Prior to this commercial broadcasting in Ireland had been unlicensed and illegal.