TV3 News
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TV3 News is the television and internet news service from TV3 in Ireland. Its flagship bulletin is at 17:30, hosted by Alan Cantwell
, Colette Fitzpatrick
and Elaine Crowley. TV3 News produces bulletins broadcast live on TV3 each day and online at tv3.ie/news. TV3 news bulletins are also present on Ireland AM
, Midday and Tonight with Vincent Browne
.
TV3 News also produce topical shows such as Midweek and Tonight with Vincent Browne
. Previously, TV3 News produced Week in Politics, The Political Party
and an Irish edition of the popular U.S. series 20/20 (1998-2000).
of TV3 News took place at 18:00 on 20 September 1998, 30 minutes after the channel launched. TV3 News was initially presented by Gráinne Seoige
and Alan Cantwell
. The current main evening bulletin takes place from 18:30 to 18:00 and is presented by Alan Cantwell and Colette Fitzpatrick
. All bulletins are broadcast from the chromakeyed
news studio at the TV3 studio complex at Ballymount
, Dublin. TV3 News Tonight was broadcast Monday to Friday at 23:00. The Week in Review broadcast on Sunday nights at 23:00.
On 20 October 2008, TV3 announced that it was axing the Friday broadcast of TV3 Nightly News, moving current affairs programme The Political Party
to replace it. (The Political Party has itself since been cancelled and replaced with Midweek). The Saturday and Sunday editions of TV3 News at 5:30 were also cut back, with TV3 News at 5:30 being axed from the weekend schedules to be replaced by five-minute news bulletins.
and presented by Siobhan Bastible and/or Elaine Crowley, with Aidan Cooney
presenting sports updates. They have been present on the show since its launch on 20 September 1999. Bulletins are broadcast every half hour. A news ticker
also runs throughout the programme, keeping viewers informed of the news headlines.
Originally an hour-long news bulletin was broadcast at 18:00 on weeknights. However, this attempt to compete with RTÉ News: Six One
was a failure, and the bulletins were moved to 17:30 and 19:00 (later 18:30, after TV3 acquired the rights to Emmerdale and began showing it at 19:00, the same time as ITV
). News @ 6.30 was eventually dropped in April 2007. For a time, the 17:30 programme was called First Edition.
Previous anchors have included Gráinne Seoige
, who moved to Sky News Ireland
in 2004 and Claire Byrne, who departed for the radio station Newstalk in 2006 following a High Court battle with her bosses at TV3.
In 2001, after Granada
(now ITV plc
) bought 45% of TV3, TV3 began to simultaneously broadcast Emmerdale
with the ITV Network, TV3 choose to move their News @ 7 to 18:30 Monday to Friday. In 2006, TV3 axed TV3 News @ 6:30 (their only prime time
news programme) in favour of a new entertainment news programme called Xposé
(see "Entertainment" section below).
Alan Cantwell
has been TV3's main news anchor since it began broadcasting in 1998, his co-anchors have all been women. Gráinne Seoige
was his co-anchor after being head hunted from TG4
where she launched their news show Nuacht TnaG, in 2004 she moved to Sky News
to launch Sky News Ireland
. She was replaced with Claire Byrne who later moved to Newstalk to host their morning show. The current co-anchor is Colette Fitzpatrick
.
and runs for approximately 30 minutes, though the bulletin has been extended to 60 minutes over the years for major news stories such as general elections, budgets and referendums.
The broadcast includes news headlines with reports from TV3 News reporters and correspondents, sports news and weather. The show is presented from the news desk (and the weather area) and has a bright blue background theme. Alan Cantwell
and Colette Fitzpatrick
are the news anchors, while Trevor Welch and Martin King
are the sports and weather presenters respectively.
. TV3 Nightly News continued to air on Friday nights until 2009 when it was replaced with The Political Party
.
In early 2008, 3 News launched the Vincent Browne
-fronted Nightly News with Vincent Browne, a news programme to replace News Tonight. Initially, "3 News Nightly News" was a similar programme to RTÉ's Prime Time
. Two of TV3's journalists filed the shows main reports, their reports were followed by a studio discussion of that report, followed by a commercial break and they the show would return with a look at the next day's newspapers. The format was changed mid-season and the reports from the two TV3 journalist were scraped in favour of a discussion show. Now the programme is called Tonight with Vincent Browne
and starts with a look at what is coming up on the show, followed by a short news bulletin. After this Browne introduces his guests and discusses the day's news with them or a specific topic. After the first commercial break the discussion typically continues and following the second commercial break Browne and his guests typically review the next day's papers, and discuss the stories within them. The weather is then presented at the end, but is not part of the show, unlike News @ 5:30.
The programme used to run from 11:00 pm to 11:40 pm from Monday to Thursday, however, following the cancellation of Sports Tonight
the show began to run to midnight. The programme is broadcast from the news studio, albeit on a separate podium to the news desk. It has a red and black background theme. Since the programme has been renamed Tonight with Vincent Browne, it is sponsored by Bank of Scotland (Ireland)
, with TV3's Nightly News airing for five minutes before the show as a separate bulletin.
During the summer, and on Friday nights, Nightly News with Vincent Browne was simply billed as TV3 Nightly News and followed the old TV3 News Tonight format (i.e., a straight 30 minute news bulletin in much the same style as News at 5:30). The Friday bulletin was axed in October 2008, while the filler service during the summer of 2009 was cut down to a 10 minute bulletin. Summer 2010 editions of Tonight with Vincent Browne were filled in by Sarah Carey
, Kevin Myers
, Sam Smyth, Ger Colleran
and Ivan Yates
. Summer 2011 editions of Tonight with Vincent Browne were filled in by Mammy O'Rourke, Sam Smyth and others.
to sponsor the programme. Due to legislation from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and similar European Union
rules preventing a news programme from being sponsored, it was no longer to be branded as "TV3 News" and officially considered to be an "entertainment/lifestyle" programme rather than news or current affairs. The CEO of TV3 David McRedmond is also a Director of Bank of Scotland (Ireland).
as guest, TV3 chose to continue in the same vain with a new spin-off show entitled Friday Late with Vincent Browne, presented from the Ireland AM
studio by Vincent Browne, and taking on The Late Late Show
, presented by Ryan Tubridy
on RTÉ One
. Friday Late with Vincent Browne featured guests such as Ray D'Arcy
, Linda Martin
and Jedward
in its first episode. Subsequent episodes featured guests such as David McSavage
and Paddy Cole. Browne introduced entrepreneur Norah Casey as "Norah Carey". It was soon discontinued.
it ran from 1998 to 2001 on Sunday mornings and repeated in the afternoon, it was replaced by The Political Party
. The Political Party was a politically-themed chat show, hosted by TV3's political editor Ursula Halligan
, which originally aired Sundays at 17:00 before being moved to Fridays at 23:00 in late 2008. However the show was axed in March 2009 due to falling advertising revenues at the station. Both shows were produced independently of TV3.
In 2009, TV3 announced a new business show that would effectively replace the original slot held by both Agenda and The Political Party airing every Sunday at midday Business Matters is business related series on TV3. The series was hosted by Ivan Yates
. Business Matters began on 13 September 2009, but just lasted 19 episodes. The series was produced in house by TV3. In 2009, TV3 also started to broadcast the current affairs show, Midweek, which airs weekly each Wednesday night and focuses on the latest political and topical issues affecting Ireland.
In house news documentaries include Ireland's Crime Capitals, a sensationalist show that observes crime in Ireland; Gift of Life, a three part special focusing on donor donations; Surviving the Recession, a one-off special looking at life in Ireland and the recession.
From the station's launch, a 30-minute news bulletin was broadcast at weekends. However in December 2008, these weekend bulletins were reduced to five minutes, this cut blamed on a downturn in advertising revenues. According to The Sunday Business Post
, TV3 had to cut 15 jobs and 15 freelance jobs in the company to save money.
. The show was launched in September 2008. The show was previously hosted by a mixed panel of men and women such as Colette Fitzpatrick, Alan Cantwell
and Martin King
. From September 2009, the show was reformatted to reflect a mainly female panel addressing issues affecting women and men, similar to UK lunchtime show Loose Women
.
. The show began on 16 September 2009. It is a much more tabloid version of other current affairs shows on Irish television dealing with issues such as mail-order bride
s, alternative medicine
, gangland crime
, etc. Midweek airs on Wednesdays at 22:00.
During a piece investigating cross-border shopping for groceries in 2011, there was controversy when Ciara Doherty offended viewers from Northern Ireland by implying that everyone in Nothern Irelasnd identified as British. Midweek was also accused of portraying Notherners as if they were from Germany or Outer Mongolia.
, the American cable news channel, often airs on TV3 News when major breaking news stories are taking place, particularly major events in the United States. CNN made its first appearance on TV3 News on 11 September 2001. CNN services have also been availed of during the 2008 election of Barack Obama
as President of the United States
and the 2009 Death of Michael Jackson
.
. It is aimed at the 15–36 year old age group. It is presented by Caroline Twohig (News), Paul Walsh (Sport) and Cassie Stokes (Technology). Reports are sourced from the TV3 newsroom, however TV3 state that the news content is entirely different to that of TV3 News at 5:30. 3e News broadcasts daily from the TV3 newsroom at 6 pm Monday to Friday.
3e also broadcast regular one minute news updates. The programme first started broadcasting shortly after TV3 renamed Channel 6 as 3e. The updates last for one minute, and start at 7:00 pm and broadcast thereafter, every hour, at 8:00 pm, and 9:00 pm. The programme gives viewers a one minute news summary, with all of the days main news headlines.
3e News was renamed as FYI (For Your Information) from 10 March 2010. The show's presenters remain on in their current roles and the format of an interactive news aimed at the 15 to 35 year old age group remains.
, TV3 Group initially proposed to launch two channels to appear on the OneVision pay television service. These channels included a news and current affairs channel called 3Today and a channel skewed towards women called 3Expose. Onevision (which TV3 held a nominal share in the consortium) withdrew from offering the pay television element to Ireland's digital terrestrial television
Saorview
after negotiations with the BAI failed due to difficulties with the terms of RTÉ NL apparently regarding multiplexing, marketing for DTT and other issues. The 3Today service was expected to appear on the Onevision DTT service. As of 2011, TV3 Group have yet to confirm whether a similar channel will appear on Saorview or a similar service in the near future. The channel was expected to air both Irish and international bespoke programing in current affairs as well as drama, comedy and documentary titles from international producers.
Alan Cantwell (newsreader)
Alan Cantwell is an Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader. He is a news presenter for TV3 News in Ireland. Cantwell is co-anchor of the station's flagship news broadcast, TV3 News at 5.30...
, Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick is, since September 2006, one of the main news anchors at TV3 News for TV3 Ireland. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary....
and Elaine Crowley. TV3 News produces bulletins broadcast live on TV3 each day and online at tv3.ie/news. TV3 news bulletins are also present on Ireland AM
Ireland AM
Ireland AM is Ireland's only breakfast television programme. The show is broadcast live every weekday morning by TV3 and 3e.- Early years :...
, Midday and Tonight with Vincent Browne
Tonight with Vincent Browne
Tonight with Vincent Browne, formerly Nightly News with Vincent Browne, is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on TV3 on Monday to Thursday nights 23:05 to 23:55. It is presented by the journalist Vincent Browne, noted for his rather acerbic style of...
.
TV3 News also produce topical shows such as Midweek and Tonight with Vincent Browne
Tonight with Vincent Browne
Tonight with Vincent Browne, formerly Nightly News with Vincent Browne, is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on TV3 on Monday to Thursday nights 23:05 to 23:55. It is presented by the journalist Vincent Browne, noted for his rather acerbic style of...
. Previously, TV3 News produced Week in Politics, The Political Party
The Political Party (television)
The Political Party was an Irish politically-themed chat show, broadcast by TV3. It ran for half an hour on Friday evenings. Up until November 2008, it aired on Sunday evenings at 17:00....
and an Irish edition of the popular U.S. series 20/20 (1998-2000).
News team
The TV3 News team includes:- Siobhan Bastible
- Paul Byrne
- Dyane Conor - Legal Affairs Correspondent
- Brian DalyBrian DalyBrian Daly is an Irish news journalist currently working for TV3 News. He spent time working as Ireland Correspondent for Sky News in Dublin. He was one of the Sky News Ireland's two anchors for its twice-weeknightly programmes alongside colleague Ray Kennedy, following the departure of previous...
- Geraldine Lynagh
- Jenny McCudden - Western Correspondent
- Stephen Murphy
- Brian O'Donovan - Finance Correspondent
General history
Prior to the launch of TV3, its strategy was to produce Ireland's first independent television news service. The first televisual broadcastNews broadcasting
News broadcasting is the broadcasting of various news events and other information via television, radio or internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom, or by a broadcast network...
of TV3 News took place at 18:00 on 20 September 1998, 30 minutes after the channel launched. TV3 News was initially presented by Gráinne Seoige
Gráinne Seoige
Gráinne Seoige is an Irish television presenter, Gaeilgeoir, and "fashion icon",Gráinne Seoige is one of the few television presenters who has worked for all terrestrial channels in the Republic of Ireland at some point. She has worked as a news anchor on TG4, TV3 and Sky News Ireland...
and Alan Cantwell
Alan Cantwell (newsreader)
Alan Cantwell is an Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader. He is a news presenter for TV3 News in Ireland. Cantwell is co-anchor of the station's flagship news broadcast, TV3 News at 5.30...
. The current main evening bulletin takes place from 18:30 to 18:00 and is presented by Alan Cantwell and Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick is, since September 2006, one of the main news anchors at TV3 News for TV3 Ireland. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary....
. All bulletins are broadcast from the chromakeyed
Chroma key
Chroma key compositing is a technique for compositing two images together. A color range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind. The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production...
news studio at the TV3 studio complex at Ballymount
Ballymount
Ballymount , is located on the south side of Dublin, near the mainly residential areas of Walkinstown to the east, Tallaght to the west and Greenhills to the south...
, Dublin. TV3 News Tonight was broadcast Monday to Friday at 23:00. The Week in Review broadcast on Sunday nights at 23:00.
On 20 October 2008, TV3 announced that it was axing the Friday broadcast of TV3 Nightly News, moving current affairs programme The Political Party
The Political Party (television)
The Political Party was an Irish politically-themed chat show, broadcast by TV3. It ran for half an hour on Friday evenings. Up until November 2008, it aired on Sunday evenings at 17:00....
to replace it. (The Political Party has itself since been cancelled and replaced with Midweek). The Saturday and Sunday editions of TV3 News at 5:30 were also cut back, with TV3 News at 5:30 being axed from the weekend schedules to be replaced by five-minute news bulletins.
Morning news bulletins
TV3 News morning bulletins are broadcast during Ireland AMIreland AM
Ireland AM is Ireland's only breakfast television programme. The show is broadcast live every weekday morning by TV3 and 3e.- Early years :...
and presented by Siobhan Bastible and/or Elaine Crowley, with Aidan Cooney
Aidan Cooney
Aidan Cooney is an Irish television and radio presenter. He is a presenter of Ireland AM on TV3. He also works doing the weekday mid-morning show on Q102 from 11am-2pm.-Ireland AM:...
presenting sports updates. They have been present on the show since its launch on 20 September 1999. Bulletins are broadcast every half hour. A news ticker
News ticker
A news ticker resides in the lower third of the television screen space on television news networks dedicated to presenting headlines or minor pieces of news. It may also refer to a long, thin scoreboard-style display seen around the front of some offices or public buildings...
also runs throughout the programme, keeping viewers informed of the news headlines.
History
On 20 September 1998, TV3 launched its news service. TV3 News @ 6 would broadcast Monday – Friday for an hour at 18:00, with half an hour bulletins on Saturdays and Sundays.Originally an hour-long news bulletin was broadcast at 18:00 on weeknights. However, this attempt to compete with RTÉ News: Six One
RTÉ News: Six One
RTÉ News: Six One is the evening news programme broadcast each night on Irish television channel RTÉ One...
was a failure, and the bulletins were moved to 17:30 and 19:00 (later 18:30, after TV3 acquired the rights to Emmerdale and began showing it at 19:00, the same time as ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
). News @ 6.30 was eventually dropped in April 2007. For a time, the 17:30 programme was called First Edition.
Previous anchors have included Gráinne Seoige
Gráinne Seoige
Gráinne Seoige is an Irish television presenter, Gaeilgeoir, and "fashion icon",Gráinne Seoige is one of the few television presenters who has worked for all terrestrial channels in the Republic of Ireland at some point. She has worked as a news anchor on TG4, TV3 and Sky News Ireland...
, who moved to Sky News Ireland
Sky News Ireland
Sky News Ireland was a television news channel which broadcast in the Republic of Ireland. Sky News International is now available throughout Ireland...
in 2004 and Claire Byrne, who departed for the radio station Newstalk in 2006 following a High Court battle with her bosses at TV3.
In 2001, after Granada
Granada
Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...
(now ITV plc
ITV plc
ITV plc is a British media company that operates 12 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom...
) bought 45% of TV3, TV3 began to simultaneously broadcast Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
with the ITV Network, TV3 choose to move their News @ 7 to 18:30 Monday to Friday. In 2006, TV3 axed TV3 News @ 6:30 (their only prime time
Prime time
Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast programming during the middle of the evening for television programing.The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example, from 19:00 to 22:00 or 20:00 to 23:00 Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast...
news programme) in favour of a new entertainment news programme called Xposé
Xposé
Xposé is an Irish entertainment/celebrity gossip programme, broadcast weekday evenings at 6pm on TV3, with a repeat the following day at 12:50pm on TV3 and again at 6.30pm on 3e .-History and format:...
(see "Entertainment" section below).
Alan Cantwell
Alan Cantwell (newsreader)
Alan Cantwell is an Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader. He is a news presenter for TV3 News in Ireland. Cantwell is co-anchor of the station's flagship news broadcast, TV3 News at 5.30...
has been TV3's main news anchor since it began broadcasting in 1998, his co-anchors have all been women. Gráinne Seoige
Gráinne Seoige
Gráinne Seoige is an Irish television presenter, Gaeilgeoir, and "fashion icon",Gráinne Seoige is one of the few television presenters who has worked for all terrestrial channels in the Republic of Ireland at some point. She has worked as a news anchor on TG4, TV3 and Sky News Ireland...
was his co-anchor after being head hunted from TG4
TG4
TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....
where she launched their news show Nuacht TnaG, in 2004 she moved to Sky News
Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...
to launch Sky News Ireland
Sky News Ireland
Sky News Ireland was a television news channel which broadcast in the Republic of Ireland. Sky News International is now available throughout Ireland...
. She was replaced with Claire Byrne who later moved to Newstalk to host their morning show. The current co-anchor is Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick is, since September 2006, one of the main news anchors at TV3 News for TV3 Ireland. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary....
.
TV3 News at 5.30
TV3 News flagship daily news bulletin is broadcast at 5:30 pm. The bulletin is called TV3 News at 5.30TV3 News at 5.30
TV3 News at 5.30 is the flagship evening news programme on the Irish television network TV3. It is produced by the TV3 News division.The TV3 News at 5.30, presented by main newscasters Alan Cantwell and Colette Fitzpatrick, is a thirty minute news programme covering Irish national and international...
and runs for approximately 30 minutes, though the bulletin has been extended to 60 minutes over the years for major news stories such as general elections, budgets and referendums.
The broadcast includes news headlines with reports from TV3 News reporters and correspondents, sports news and weather. The show is presented from the news desk (and the weather area) and has a bright blue background theme. Alan Cantwell
Alan Cantwell (newsreader)
Alan Cantwell is an Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader. He is a news presenter for TV3 News in Ireland. Cantwell is co-anchor of the station's flagship news broadcast, TV3 News at 5.30...
and Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick is, since September 2006, one of the main news anchors at TV3 News for TV3 Ireland. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary....
are the news anchors, while Trevor Welch and Martin King
Martin King (weather presenter)
Martin Boyle , known professionally as Martin King, is the weather anchor with TV3 in Ireland. He is one of TV's most recognisable weather forecasters. He is also a co-presenter of The Morning Show with Sybil & Martin on TV3 and has his own radio show on Today FM.-TV career:When TV3 launched in...
are the sports and weather presenters respectively.
History
TV3 News Tonight, Late Edition or Nightly News was first broadcast on Monday 21 September 1998 at 23:00. It aired at 23:00 each weeknight for 30 minutes. It was hosted by either of its two main anchors each taking alternative nights. In 2008, TV3 News axed the late news in preference for TV3 Nightly News with Vincent Browne which also aired for 30 minutes until 2009 when the show was rebranded as Tonight with Vincent BrowneTonight with Vincent Browne
Tonight with Vincent Browne, formerly Nightly News with Vincent Browne, is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on TV3 on Monday to Thursday nights 23:05 to 23:55. It is presented by the journalist Vincent Browne, noted for his rather acerbic style of...
. TV3 Nightly News continued to air on Friday nights until 2009 when it was replaced with The Political Party
The Political Party (television)
The Political Party was an Irish politically-themed chat show, broadcast by TV3. It ran for half an hour on Friday evenings. Up until November 2008, it aired on Sunday evenings at 17:00....
.
Tonight with Vincent Browne
Vincent Browne
Vincent Browne is an Irish print and broadcast journalist. He is a columnist with The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post and a part time barrister....
-fronted Nightly News with Vincent Browne, a news programme to replace News Tonight. Initially, "3 News Nightly News" was a similar programme to RTÉ's Prime Time
Prime Time
Prime Time is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on RTÉ One on Tuesday and Thursday nights between 21:30 and 22:10. It is currently presented by Miriam O'Callaghan, who has presented the programme since its commencement in 1996...
. Two of TV3's journalists filed the shows main reports, their reports were followed by a studio discussion of that report, followed by a commercial break and they the show would return with a look at the next day's newspapers. The format was changed mid-season and the reports from the two TV3 journalist were scraped in favour of a discussion show. Now the programme is called Tonight with Vincent Browne
Tonight with Vincent Browne
Tonight with Vincent Browne, formerly Nightly News with Vincent Browne, is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on TV3 on Monday to Thursday nights 23:05 to 23:55. It is presented by the journalist Vincent Browne, noted for his rather acerbic style of...
and starts with a look at what is coming up on the show, followed by a short news bulletin. After this Browne introduces his guests and discusses the day's news with them or a specific topic. After the first commercial break the discussion typically continues and following the second commercial break Browne and his guests typically review the next day's papers, and discuss the stories within them. The weather is then presented at the end, but is not part of the show, unlike News @ 5:30.
The programme used to run from 11:00 pm to 11:40 pm from Monday to Thursday, however, following the cancellation of Sports Tonight
Sports Tonight (Ireland)
Sports Tonight was an Irish sports information programme broadcast on TV3. The programme was broadcast Monday-Friday at 11:30 pm, after Nightly News. Sports Tonight provided up-to-date comprehensive coverage of all that matters in sport. It was usually presented by Trevor Welch, with other TV3...
the show began to run to midnight. The programme is broadcast from the news studio, albeit on a separate podium to the news desk. It has a red and black background theme. Since the programme has been renamed Tonight with Vincent Browne, it is sponsored by Bank of Scotland (Ireland)
Bank of Scotland (Ireland)
Bank of Scotland was a bank based in the Republic of Ireland, a subsidiary of the Bank of Scotland, which in turn is a part of the Lloyds Banking Group. It was more widely known under the trading name of its former retail division, Halifax. Since 10 February 2010 the bank has no longer accepted...
, with TV3's Nightly News airing for five minutes before the show as a separate bulletin.
During the summer, and on Friday nights, Nightly News with Vincent Browne was simply billed as TV3 Nightly News and followed the old TV3 News Tonight format (i.e., a straight 30 minute news bulletin in much the same style as News at 5:30). The Friday bulletin was axed in October 2008, while the filler service during the summer of 2009 was cut down to a 10 minute bulletin. Summer 2010 editions of Tonight with Vincent Browne were filled in by Sarah Carey
Sarah Carey
Sarah Carey is a former Esat Telecom employee and former columnist for The Sunday Times and The Irish Times. She is currently a radio presenter on Newstalk and has presented for TV3...
, Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers is an Irish journalist and writer. He writes for the Irish Independent and is a former contributor to The Irish Times, where he wrote the "An Irishman's Diary" opinion column several times weekly...
, Sam Smyth, Ger Colleran
Ger Colleran
Gerard Colleran is an Irish journalist, the editor of the Irish Daily Star since 1999. In 2009, Village listed him as one of Ireland's 100 most influential people. He is a native of Mayo, County Mayo, grew up in Quin, County Clare, and was educated at the University of London and the University of...
and Ivan Yates
Ivan Yates
Ivan Yates is an Irish businessman, broadcaster and former politician. He was elected as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála representing the Wexford constituency at the 1981 general election and at each election until his retirement from politics in 2002...
. Summer 2011 editions of Tonight with Vincent Browne were filled in by Mammy O'Rourke, Sam Smyth and others.
Sponsorship controversy
From September 2009 the programme was renamed Tonight with Vincent Browne, after a deal was signed with Bank of Scotland (Ireland)Bank of Scotland (Ireland)
Bank of Scotland was a bank based in the Republic of Ireland, a subsidiary of the Bank of Scotland, which in turn is a part of the Lloyds Banking Group. It was more widely known under the trading name of its former retail division, Halifax. Since 10 February 2010 the bank has no longer accepted...
to sponsor the programme. Due to legislation from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and similar European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
rules preventing a news programme from being sponsored, it was no longer to be branded as "TV3 News" and officially considered to be an "entertainment/lifestyle" programme rather than news or current affairs. The CEO of TV3 David McRedmond is also a Director of Bank of Scotland (Ireland).
Friday Late with Vincent Browne
This appeared in 2011 and was a more relaxed version of the heavy political debate of Tonight with Vincent Browne. After successful ratings of the more easy-going Friday night election specials in the run up to the 2011 Irish general election, which often featured Marie-Louise O'DonnellMarie-Louise O'Donnell
Marie-Louise O'Donnell is an Irish broadcaster and politician.From Foxford, County Mayo, she is a lecturer in communications at Dublin City University . A former actor and theatre administrator she was involved in the setting up of the The Helix theatre on the DCU campus.In May 2011, she was...
as guest, TV3 chose to continue in the same vain with a new spin-off show entitled Friday Late with Vincent Browne, presented from the Ireland AM
Ireland AM
Ireland AM is Ireland's only breakfast television programme. The show is broadcast live every weekday morning by TV3 and 3e.- Early years :...
studio by Vincent Browne, and taking on The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show, sometimes referred to as The Late Late, or in some cases by the acronym LLS, is the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster and the official flagship television programme of Irish broadcasting company RTÉ...
, presented by Ryan Tubridy
Ryan Tubridy
Ryan Tubridy , affectionately known as "Tubs", is an Irish broadcaster and writer, a presenter of live shows on radio and television in Ireland. He has been described as "one of Ireland's most gifted broadcasters"...
on RTÉ One
RTÉ One
RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...
. Friday Late with Vincent Browne featured guests such as Ray D'Arcy
Ray D'Arcy
Raymond 'Ray' D'Arcy is an Irish television and radio presenter. He currently presents a weekday morning radio programme, The Ray D'Arcy Show, on Today FM...
, Linda Martin
Linda Martin
Linda Martin is an Irish singer and television presenter. She is best known in Europe as the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, with the song "Why Me?", and in Ireland as a member of the 1970s/1980s band, Chips.-Chips:Martin started off her musical career when she joined the band Chips...
and Jedward
Jedward
John Paul Henry Daniel Richard Grimes and Edward Peter Anthony Kevin Patrick Grimes are an Irish hip pop duo. They are identical twins and perform under the name Jedward...
in its first episode. Subsequent episodes featured guests such as David McSavage
David McSavage
David McSavage is an Irish comedy writer and performer. He has performed at national and international comedy festivals such as the Kilkenny Comedy Festival, and appeared on Irish television comedy programmes, including The Savage Eye...
and Paddy Cole. Browne introduced entrepreneur Norah Casey as "Norah Carey". It was soon discontinued.
Additional programming
Agenda was a political magazine show hosted by David McWilliamsDavid McWilliams
David McWilliams is an Irish journalist and economist. McWilliams has worked with as an economist with Central Bank of Ireland and as a banker with UBS bank and the Banque Nationale de Paris...
it ran from 1998 to 2001 on Sunday mornings and repeated in the afternoon, it was replaced by The Political Party
The Political Party (television)
The Political Party was an Irish politically-themed chat show, broadcast by TV3. It ran for half an hour on Friday evenings. Up until November 2008, it aired on Sunday evenings at 17:00....
. The Political Party was a politically-themed chat show, hosted by TV3's political editor Ursula Halligan
Ursula Halligan
Ursula Halligan is the political editor of Ireland's main independent television station, TV3.A former journalist with RTÉ News and Current Affairs, she joined TV3 at its inception. She previously worked at the Sunday Tribune and Vincent Browne's Magill magazine...
, which originally aired Sundays at 17:00 before being moved to Fridays at 23:00 in late 2008. However the show was axed in March 2009 due to falling advertising revenues at the station. Both shows were produced independently of TV3.
In 2009, TV3 announced a new business show that would effectively replace the original slot held by both Agenda and The Political Party airing every Sunday at midday Business Matters is business related series on TV3. The series was hosted by Ivan Yates
Ivan Yates
Ivan Yates is an Irish businessman, broadcaster and former politician. He was elected as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála representing the Wexford constituency at the 1981 general election and at each election until his retirement from politics in 2002...
. Business Matters began on 13 September 2009, but just lasted 19 episodes. The series was produced in house by TV3. In 2009, TV3 also started to broadcast the current affairs show, Midweek, which airs weekly each Wednesday night and focuses on the latest political and topical issues affecting Ireland.
In house news documentaries include Ireland's Crime Capitals, a sensationalist show that observes crime in Ireland; Gift of Life, a three part special focusing on donor donations; Surviving the Recession, a one-off special looking at life in Ireland and the recession.
From the station's launch, a 30-minute news bulletin was broadcast at weekends. However in December 2008, these weekend bulletins were reduced to five minutes, this cut blamed on a downturn in advertising revenues. According to The Sunday Business Post
The Sunday Business Post
The Sunday Business Post is an Irish national Sunday newspaper published by Post Publications Limited. Post Publications is owned by Thomas Crosbie Holdings. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Ireland, the average weekly circulation was 57,783 for the period January to June 2009. The...
, TV3 had to cut 15 jobs and 15 freelance jobs in the company to save money.
Midday
TV3 News also airs at the beginning of Midday. Midday is a 40-minute daily chat show, similar to U.S. chat show The View. Midday is hosted by a panel mainly women and anchored by 3 News presenters Elaine Crowley and/or Colette FitzpatrickColette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick is, since September 2006, one of the main news anchors at TV3 News for TV3 Ireland. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary....
. The show was launched in September 2008. The show was previously hosted by a mixed panel of men and women such as Colette Fitzpatrick, Alan Cantwell
Alan Cantwell (newsreader)
Alan Cantwell is an Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader. He is a news presenter for TV3 News in Ireland. Cantwell is co-anchor of the station's flagship news broadcast, TV3 News at 5.30...
and Martin King
Martin King (weather presenter)
Martin Boyle , known professionally as Martin King, is the weather anchor with TV3 in Ireland. He is one of TV's most recognisable weather forecasters. He is also a co-presenter of The Morning Show with Sybil & Martin on TV3 and has his own radio show on Today FM.-TV career:When TV3 launched in...
. From September 2009, the show was reformatted to reflect a mainly female panel addressing issues affecting women and men, similar to UK lunchtime show Loose Women
Loose Women
Loose Women is a British lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1999 on ITV. It consists of a panel of four women who interview celebrities and discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs, to celebrity gossip...
.
Midweek
Midweek is hosted by TV3 News presenter Colette FitzpatrickColette Fitzpatrick
Colette Fitzpatrick is, since September 2006, one of the main news anchors at TV3 News for TV3 Ireland. She is a native of Holycross, Thurles, County Tipperary....
. The show began on 16 September 2009. It is a much more tabloid version of other current affairs shows on Irish television dealing with issues such as mail-order bride
Mail-order bride
Mail-order bride is a label applied to a woman who publishes her intent to marry someone from another country. This term is considered offensive by some people. The mail-order bride industry is the economic trade of contracted domestic partnerships, often between citizens of different countries or...
s, alternative medicine
Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine is any healing practice, "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine." It is based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence....
, gangland crime
Gangland killing
A gangland killing is a murder carried out by organized criminals. According to FBI Uniform Crime Reports, there were 425 gangland killings from 2000 to 2004, 0.6% of all murders committed in the United States during that time...
, etc. Midweek airs on Wednesdays at 22:00.
During a piece investigating cross-border shopping for groceries in 2011, there was controversy when Ciara Doherty offended viewers from Northern Ireland by implying that everyone in Nothern Irelasnd identified as British. Midweek was also accused of portraying Notherners as if they were from Germany or Outer Mongolia.
CNN on 3News
CNNCNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, the American cable news channel, often airs on TV3 News when major breaking news stories are taking place, particularly major events in the United States. CNN made its first appearance on TV3 News on 11 September 2001. CNN services have also been availed of during the 2008 election of Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
as President of the United States
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
and the 2009 Death of Michael Jackson
Death of Michael Jackson
On June 25, 2009, American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication after he suffered a respiratory arrest at his home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles. His personal physician, Conrad Murray, said he found Jackson in his room, not breathing, but with a faint pulse,...
.
3e News/FYI
3e News broadcasts on TV3's sister channel 3e3E
3E or 3-E may refer to:*3e, general entertainment channel operated in Ireland*3rd meridian east*Third edition in the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons*NY 3E, alternate name for New York State Route 104*OK-3E, abbreviation for Oklahoma State Highway 3...
. It is aimed at the 15–36 year old age group. It is presented by Caroline Twohig (News), Paul Walsh (Sport) and Cassie Stokes (Technology). Reports are sourced from the TV3 newsroom, however TV3 state that the news content is entirely different to that of TV3 News at 5:30. 3e News broadcasts daily from the TV3 newsroom at 6 pm Monday to Friday.
3e also broadcast regular one minute news updates. The programme first started broadcasting shortly after TV3 renamed Channel 6 as 3e. The updates last for one minute, and start at 7:00 pm and broadcast thereafter, every hour, at 8:00 pm, and 9:00 pm. The programme gives viewers a one minute news summary, with all of the days main news headlines.
3e News was renamed as FYI (For Your Information) from 10 March 2010. The show's presenters remain on in their current roles and the format of an interactive news aimed at the 15 to 35 year old age group remains.
3Today
As Ireland moved towards full integration of digital terrestrial televisionDigital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...
, TV3 Group initially proposed to launch two channels to appear on the OneVision pay television service. These channels included a news and current affairs channel called 3Today and a channel skewed towards women called 3Expose. Onevision (which TV3 held a nominal share in the consortium) withdrew from offering the pay television element to Ireland's digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...
Saorview
Saorview
Saorview is the national free-to-air digital terrestrial television service in Republic of Ireland.The service began operation on 29 October 2010 on a trial basis with full launch on 26 May 2011. By legislation it was required to be available to approximately 90% of the population by end of...
after negotiations with the BAI failed due to difficulties with the terms of RTÉ NL apparently regarding multiplexing, marketing for DTT and other issues. The 3Today service was expected to appear on the Onevision DTT service. As of 2011, TV3 Group have yet to confirm whether a similar channel will appear on Saorview or a similar service in the near future. The channel was expected to air both Irish and international bespoke programing in current affairs as well as drama, comedy and documentary titles from international producers.