TV3 - 10 years old this month (September)

Looks like its run by media students as much now as it did then.

Damn right Mike.

So much of the schedule in the papers just has 'as ITV'!

Wasn't TV3 also responsible for 'The Box' with k-k-k-k-k-Keith Duffy?

*shudder*

I liked the original sports tonight with Trev and Alan, with the original graphics. They had a phone in element when Keith Barr was one of the panelists giving their opinion on upcoming GAA. One phone in caller said "and Keith Barr is nothing but a knacker" Cooney apologized went onto the next caller who aired his opinion before hanging up with "and yeah, Keith Barr was a knacker"

I knew it was going to be crap from the moment they played "three's the magic number" signature tune with voices asking for a size 3 shoes amongst various other rubbish illustrating how the number 3 can seemingly be used in sentences :rolleyes:. If i remember correctly, they had gremlins in the system as it launched and there was a blank screen for a minute or two.

The news gets a lot of value out of its stock clips, one with kids smoking, one where some hand at a bar pouring drink from a pint into a glass and one where a bank teller is handling euros for the first time. All are still being used on their news.

TV3 god love em

According to a note I found in my pocket, I paid a big black guy from Haiti to romove all memories of "TV3" from my head. I'm pretty sure it's a reference to the TV channel.

isn't basically an Irish ITV equivalent?

Boards.ie was featured on Ireland Am this morning, I could see Cagney squirm in his seat I wonder if he ever did a search on his name here:P

razorblunt wrote: »

I think Best of the Best 2 was on the first Saturday night.

They had South park as well think it was the only show I watched regularly on it.

Well, now that takes me back. Can remember one christmas holidays (I think it may have been 2001, when I was 13) that my older brother and I watched it while my parents where visiting someone else:rolleyes:

Other than that, have never been too found of TV3. It's only usefulness now is relaying ITV shows that aren't on the Irish Sky EPG, hence recordable on Sky+

malcolmplex wrote: »

i used to watch the sweeney it was on about midnight.handy for brushing up on my cockney slang

Not forgetting Minder too in the early days.:o:pac:;)

Just a bit of a flashback to when it started for ya:

Sun 20th Sep - 5.30 This is TV3, 6:00 News @ 6, 7.00 Messrs Tylak And Rooney, 7:30 Just Shoot Me, 8:00 20/20, 9:00 Film: Merlin 11:00 News Tonight 11:30 Sports Tonight

Weekdays: 12:00 Speakeasy 12:30 Family Affairs, 1:00 Ricki Lake, 2:00 Breakers, 2:30 Sunset Beach, 3:30 Judge Judy, 4:00 Gimme 3 (Ren And Stimpy & Conan The Adventurer) 5:00 Can't Cook Won't Cook, 5:30 Family Affairs, 6:00 News @ 6, 7:00 Breakers && 11pm News Tonight, 11:30 Sports Tonight, 12:00 Minder

Mon: 7:30 Birds Of A Feather, 8:00 Eastenders, 8:30 Something So Right, 9:00 Film
Tue: 7:30 Eastenders 8:00 ? 8:30 Just Shoot Me 9:00 Mad About You 9:30 The Naked Truth, 10:00 Early Edition.
Wed: 7:30 Birds Of A Feather, 8:00 FILM!, 10:00 Seinfeld (double bill)
Thurs: 7:30 Eastenders 8:00 Buffy The Vampire Slayer 9:00 CI5: The New Professionals 10:00 ?
Fri: 7:30 Birds Of A Feather 8:00 Pensacola - Wings Of Gold, 9:00 ? 10:00 Good Guys, Bad Guys

Sat: 7:40 Animal Crackers - Adventures of Pete And Pete - Transformers Gen 2, 9:00 Pop On 3, 11:00 Sister Said, 11:30 Student Bodies, 12:00 FILM!, 2:00 FILM! 4:30 Earth Report 5:00 ?, 6:00 News @ 6, 6:30 The Pepsi Chart Show, 7:00 Film, 9:00 Film, 11:00 Film

Sun: 7:40 Gimme 3 (Avenger Penguins., Rocko's Modern Life, Loggerheads, Conan & The Young Warriors, ?) 10:30 The Pepsi Chart Show, 11:00 The Love Boat, 12:00 London's Burning, 1:00 Eastenders, 2:45 FILM!, 5:00 Timecop, 6:00 News @ 6.30 6.30 Hudson Street, 7:00 ?, 8:00 20/20, 9:00 FILM!, 11:00 The Week In Review


I've forgotten a few.

And don't even ask how i can remember them all

Wheels wrote: »

Unfortunately as an ad based station in Ireland, it's never going to be amazing. RTÉ are able to cap their rates for advertising and keeping the price down industry wide, meaning TV3 will never really stand a chance at making enough money to make decent home grown shows.

Sponsorship is its biggest saviour at the moment (Ireland AM, The Apprentice, Xpose etc. are all paid for by sponsors) but again because RTÉ can get sponsors they're limited in who wants to play ball. It will be interesting though over the next year or so to see what Ben Frow will do. They're slowly trying to up their game and are making some decent steps. While it might turn out to be crap, their own drama scripted drama series is a huge step.

€60,000,000 each year, TV3 have pleanty of money for one TV station. TV3 can get plenty of sponsorship. There aren't a little company, they are only a little company because the choose to be small because it makes them millions they have had it easy and they have caused RTE to have it easy. They can show more ads then RTE. They have 13% of the audience.

Their scripted drama is a two part co-funded by the licence fee through the sound and vision fund of the BCI. A very very small step.