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TV News Releases - October 2011

RTÉ ANNOUNCES LOCAL HEROES CAMPAIGN – NEW INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT JOBS LAUNCHES With unemployment and emigration a reality for many people, RTÉ has launched a campaign using all its resources to help support Irish jobs. RTÉ’s Local Heroes is a multi-platform campaign on television, radio, print and online that will highlight the actions we can all take to support Irish jobs and invite everyone to get involved […]
RTÉ Secures Broadcast Rights for Republic of Ireland’s Crucial Euro 2012 Play-Offs against Estonia RTÉ Sport has announced that it is has secured the live broadcast rights for the Republic of Ireland’s Euro 2012 Qualifying play-off games against Estonia this November. Both the home and away matches will be broadcast live on RTÉ Two television, RTÉ Radio 1 and streamed live on RTÉ.ie The opening leg will see the […]
RTÉ rejects TV3 claims as false and misleading RTÉ firmly rejects as inaccurate and false the claims made in TV3’s news release today. TV3 mis-states and misrepresents the agreement between RTÉ and the Competition Authority around Television advertising sales. TV3’s statement is blatantly inaccurate on key points and attempts to represent a voluntary and agreed position as a forcible outturn. No finding of […]
BROKEN TAIL DOCUMENTARY WINS THREE AWARDS AT PRESTIGIOUS WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL RTÉ Television BROKEN TAIL DOCUMENTARY WINS THREE AWARDS AT PRESTIGIOUS WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL The RTÉ co-production Broken Tail’s Last Journey has won three awards including Best of Festival at the Jackson Hole Festival in Wyoming. Internationally renowned as the largest and most prestigious competition of the nature genre, this year’s Festival competition included 510 films […]
LAST FRIDAY’S LATE LATE SHOW ATTRACTED 50% SHARE & AVERAGE OF 744,000 VIEWERS Half* of the viewers watching television at the time watched The Late Late Show last Friday (50% share), with 744,000** viewers on average engaged in a classic mix of debate, entertainment and tough interviewing. This performance last Friday night, 16 September, is a huge achievement, particularly given that over 70% of the television audience has […]
Dublin’s first Sam in 16 years attracts a 1.4m television audience as Irish sports fans savour a great weekend of sport on RTÉ Television Sunday’s All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final attracted a huge viewership peaking at 1.4 million* viewers in the final minutes of the match as Dublin dramatically came back from four points down against Kerry to snatch the title. An average audience of 1,175,300** viewers, 74.61% of the available audience, tuned in to the gripping game from […]
Ireland’s historic Rugby World Cup win over Australia draws huge breakfast TV audience On a great weekend of sport on RTÉ Television, Ireland’s historic pool stage win over Australia in the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand drew huge audiences. An average audience of 624,000*, 65.14% of the available audience, tuned in for full coverage of the match. The audience peaked at 808,700** as Ireland stoutly defended their […]

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