New TV station for Ireland

IvaBigWun

UTV to launch a new one in 2015

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/media-and-marketing/utv-to-launch-new-dublin-based-tv-channel-by-2015-1.1585517

Given that, apparently, TV3 have come close to going bust a few times, is this a viable business?

CardBordWindow

Will that mean that Corrie, Emmerdale, X factor, Dancing on Ice, I'm a Celebrity etc will no longer be on TV3?

suicide_circus

I hope they show smutty european arthouse movies in the early hours like channel4 and tv3 used to do.

dodderangler

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Will that mean that Corrie, Emmerdale, X factor, Dancing on Ice, I'm a Celebrity etc will no longer be on TV3?

Oh god say it ain't so

As if we need another TV station showing terrible ****e.

Lapin

IvaBigWun wrote: »

UTV to launch a new one in 2015

Given that, apparently, TV3 have come close to going bust a few times, is this a viable business?

It will be when they swallow up TV3.

CardBordWindow

dodderangler wrote: »

Oh god say it ain't so

Ah no, I won't care, but I reckon TV3 are fecked without them!

MadsL

How'boucher TV?

kneemos

Crap followed by crap interrupted by X Factor.

wretcheddomain

They should have a station called TV Kenny where all the broadcasts and advertisements venerate our leader.

RikkFlair

Devote the entire station to Vincent Browne, a 24 hour fly on the wall documentary where he roasts politicians alive in his secret dungeon.

wretcheddomain

RikkFlair wrote: »

Devote the entire station to Vincent Browne, a 24 hour fly on the wall documentary where he roasts politicians alive in his secret dungeon.

Not to forget his 2am show 'Late Night Browney'

SEPT 23 1989

We need a BBC4 type channel not more of the same crap

Blue Crystal

suicide_circus wrote: »

I hope they show smutty european arthouse movies in the early hours like channel4 and tv3 used to do.

You are forgetting TG4

Fuzzy Clam

Lapin wrote: »

It will be when they swallow up TV3.

And take on TV3's debt?
I don't think so........

Jester252

TV3 are have to make more crime capital shows to fill in all that empty space

Blue Crystal

Oh dear, more gypsy bashing shows required for tv3 so

Agent Smith

More of this....



Brilliant...

pharmaton

good news for me anyway considering the other one is studying for a career in the industry

iDave

Its amazing how TV shows that are shown simultaneously on another channel are so important to a channels wellbeing. Seems like a risky enough business model to me.

biko

2015? I'll set my alarm.

Savoir.Faire

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

We need a BBC4 type channel not more of the same crap

Not commercially viable. Considering the righteous howls of indignation that emerge from most of the drones around here when RTE and the TV licence are mentioned, I couldn't see that getting very far.

The Diabolical Monocle

Let us give thanks to the youtube.

Too Tough To Die

TV3 should produce their own soap about travellers. They can call it 'mobile home and away'.

iDave

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

Not commercially viable. Considering the righteous howls of indignation that emerge from most of the drones around here when RTE and the TV licence are mentioned, I couldn't see that getting very far.

You could argue the TV license should be used to pay for non commercial viable TV and let advertising pay for the popular stuff.

MadsL

Agent Smith wrote: »

More of this....



Brilliant...

How does he not have his own show yet?

bodhrandude

Maybe we should call it The Utterly Amazing Channel with like, amazing things on it :pac:

Dr.MickKiller

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

TV3 should produce their own soap about travellers. They can call it 'mobile home and away'.

or home and home?

IvaBigWun

iDave wrote: »

You could argue the TV license should be used to pay for non commercial viable TV and let advertising pay for the popular stuff.

Ideally yes. But I dont think we'll ever have an Irish equivalent of BBC 3 or 4

Amirani

Ideally this would allow TV3 to focus more on good home-grown programming as it can't compete on the soap front. Unfortunately, most of their home-grown programming tends to be complete garbage.

kowloon

Both of the people who watch broadcast TV will be dead by 2015.

The Big Smoke

Bit risky in the already diluted market. Then again about 70% of this country watch awful ****e so it might work.

DebDynamite

Hope we won't have to watch those shite Nordie ads like the Hughes car insurance ones or Menarys.

nullzero

UTV always seemed far to artificial even by TV standards. The twee presenters and the whole airbrushed quality of the stations visuals always seemed so at odds with the reality of the north, and in my eyes it hadn't changed all that much. I actually can't stand to even glance at "The UTV" never mind suit down and watch it. I for one won't be watching the new channel.

JohnMc1

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Will that mean that Corrie, Emmerdale, X factor, Dancing on Ice, I'm a Celebrity etc will no longer be on TV3?

Don't know about the others but Corrie and Emmerdale will be moving.

General General

Brits "soft power" antics, to counteract zee Germanz.

Untouchable Peasant

suicide_circus wrote: »

I hope they show smutty european arthouse movies in the early hours like channel4 and tv3 used to do.

There's the internet now. We have smut on tap.

Papa_Bear

Didn't Sky News already try this a few years back and it didn't last. I know they were a news channel but the broadcast from utv in the north and here (if it arrives) will be the same save for the news programme. It probably wont be worth it after the dust settles and it may well spell the end of TV3.

They're only after the ad revenue anyway.

eoinkoenig

Lapin wrote: »

It will be when they swallow up TV3.

TV3 airs a lot of UTV shows, so I wouldn't be surprised if this does happen tbh.

Mark Twain

eoinkoenig wrote: »

TV3 airs a lot of UTV shows, so I wouldn't be surprised if this does happen tbh.

Granada owned a stake in them for quite a period of time, and also held the franchise for 6 ITV stations (not UTV though). It's why they continue to broadcast plenty of ITV content. Must be worrying for TV3 knowing they are losing their marquee broadcast: Coronation Street.

IvaBigWun

Lapin wrote: »

It will be when they swallow up TV3.

This is, no doubt, what will happen following UTV's sales team offering a "2 for 1" deal when the station launches