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1982 In Irish Television
The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1982. Events *February – The Government issues a directive to RTÉ to prohibit the airing of party political broadcasts by Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Provisional IRA. *18 February – Coverage of the 1982 general election is shown on radio and television. *9 March – John Wilson is appointed as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs. *31 October – RTÉ Television airs the drama ''The Ballroom of Romance'', a drama based on the novel by William Trevor. The programme is a joint production with the BBC). *2 November – Launch of Channel 4, the United Kingdom's first new terrestrial television channel for two decades. Because it is aired in Northern Ireland, the channel is also available in many parts of the Republic. *18 November – RTÉ Television airs the drama ''The Year of the French'', a series based on the novel by Thomas Flanagan. It is a co-production by RTÉ, the recently launched UK Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Ireland
Television in the Republic of Ireland is available through a variety of platforms. The digital terrestrial television service is known as Saorview and is the primary source of broadcast television since analogue transmissions ended on 24 October 2012. Digital satellite (from Sky Ireland, Saorsat and other European satellite service providers are available) and digital cable (from Virgin Media Ireland) are also widely used. The Irish satellite fill-in service (Saorsat) is via Ka-Sat using the Irish KA band spot and has been available since June 2011. While many people receive their television via Saorview, which is broadcast by 2RN, more than half subscribe to multichannel television networks. The biggest single multichannel television network in Ireland is Sky Ireland, which broadcasts digital satellite television services. Virgin Media Ireland, Vodafone TV and Eir among others, provide similar digital television services to Irish viewers. History Television was first recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmy Award
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with their own set of rules and award categories. The two events that receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards, which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming, respectively. Other notable U.S. national Emmy events include the Children's & Family Emmy Awards for children's and family-oriented television programming, the Sports Emmy Awards for sports programming, News & Documentary Emmy Awards for news and documentary shows, and the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for technological and engineering achievements. Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trom Agus Éadrom
Trom agus Éadrom (; meaning "Heavy and Light") was an Irish television variety show which was broadcast bilingually in Irish and English by Raidió Teilifís Éireann between 1975 and 1985. The show was presented by Liam Ó Murchú and was one of the more popular shows on Irish television. Ó Murchú became a household name and was famous for his catchphrase A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through word of mouth and a variety of mass ... ''"bualadh bos"'' (). References 1975 Irish television series debuts 1985 Irish television series endings 1970s Irish television series 1980s Irish television series Irish-language television shows Irish variety television shows RTÉ original programming {{Ireland-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Stadium
A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event. Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event at the ancient Greek Olympic festival was the race that comprised one length of the stadion at Olympia, where the word "stadium" originated. Most of the stadiums with a capacity of at least 10,000 are used for association football. Other popular stadium sports include gridiron football, baseball, cricket, the various codes of rugby, field lacrosse, bandy, and bullfighting. Many large sports venues are also used for concerts. Etymology "Stadium" is the Latin form of the Greek word " stadion" (''στάδιον''), a measure of length equalling the length of 600 human feet. As feet are of variable length the exact length of a stadion depends on the exac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Late Late Show (Ireland)
''The Late Late Show'', with its title often shortened to ''The Late Late'', is an Irish chat show. It is the world's second longest-running late-night talk show, after the American ''The Tonight Show''. Perceived as the official flagship television programme of the Republic of Ireland's public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), it is regarded as an Irish television institution, and is broadcast live across two hours plus in front of a studio audience on Friday nights between September and May at 21.30. Certain segments are sometimes pre-recorded and aired within the live parts of the show. Having maintained the same name and format continuously, ''The Late Late Show'' was first broadcast on Friday, 6 July 1962 at 23.20 and in colour from 1976. Originating as temporary summer filler for a niche Saturday night audience (airing at 23.30), it later moved to its current home on Friday night schedules. The format has remained largely the same throughout—dialog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six One
6 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 6 or six may also refer to: * AD 6, the sixth year of the AD era * 6 BC, the sixth year before the AD era * The month of June Science * Carbon, the element with atomic number 6 * 6 Hebe, an asteroid People * Alphonse Six (1890–1914), Belgian football player * Didier Six (born 1954), former French international footballer * Franz Six (1909–1975), Nazi official * Frederick N. Six (born 1929), Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court * James Six (1731–1793), British scientist * Jan Six (1616-1700), an important cultural figure in the Dutch Golden Age * Robert Six (1907–1986), Chief Executive Officer of Continental Airlines between 1936 and 1981 * Regine Sixt, German businessperson * Valérie Six (born 1963), French politician * Perri 6 (an extremely rare surname), social scientist * Six family, family of regents of Amsterdam, founded by Jan Six Music * Six (band), an Irish pop band created by a TV reality show * ''Six'' (musical), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine O'Clock
''Nine O'Clock'' is a Romanian English-language newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a .... The newspaper consists mainly of sections related to politics, business, sports, culture, Romania-related news and weather. External links * 1991 establishments in Romania Publications established in 1991 English-language newspapers published in Europe Newspapers published in Bucharest Mass media in Romania {{Romania-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink At First Sight
''The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight'' is a 1981 animated Valentine's Day special starring The Pink Panther, that premiered on ABC on February 14, 1981. This was not only Marvel's lone ''Pink Panther'' special but was David H. DePatie's first solo effort on the character without Friz Freleng's involvement and the third and final ''Pink Panther'' special on ABC, following '' A Pink Christmas'' in 1978 and ''Olym-Pinks'' in 1980. Plot (In parody of Love at First Sight) It is Valentine's Day and the Pink Panther is lonely and has no money (except for seven cents). After receiving another person's Valentine gift package by mistake, he goes to the messenger service for a job but messes his rehearsal up. He then goes to a store, buys a cassette player and pre-recorded cassettes with the seven cents he had left and goes back to the messenger service miming to Enrico Caruso's version of "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera ''Pagliacci'', and gets hired as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mailbag
''Mailbag'' is an Irish TV programme which was presented by Arthur Murphy and broadcast on RTÉ One for a fourteen-year period, from 1982 to 1996. The presentation, which was initially 10 minutes in length, dealt with viewers letters concerning RTÉ TV programmes and broadcasting in general. The programme later became established in a half-hour Saturday-evening time slot. Murphy repeated the ''Mailbag'' concept into the 2010s, broadcasting an "E-mail Bag" segment on Today FM radio's ''The Ray D'Arcy Show ''The Ray D'Arcy Show'' is the title given to two differing versions of a radio programme hosted by Ray D'Arcy, originally broadcast on Irish commercial radio station Today FM from the late 1990s until 2014 before transferring in February 2015 t ...''. References 1982 Irish television series debuts 1996 Irish television series endings 1980s Irish television series 1990s Irish television series Irish television shows RTÉ 2fm programmes RTÉ original programmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brendan Grace Show
''The Brendan Grace Show'' is an Irish variety show presented by Brendan Grace."TV Tonight", ''The Irish Times'', 29 October 1982 The studio-based show aired on Friday nights between 29 October and 10 December 1982. Format ''The Brendan Grace Show'' featured comedy routines and sketches by Brendan Grace as well as special celebrity guests. The music was provided by special musical guests as well as the show's house band, Daddy Cool and the Lollipops. The dance group Gypsy made regular appearances throughout the series. Programming Series 1: 1982 Production ''The Brendan Grace Show'' was broadcast live from Studio 1 in the RTÉ Television Centre at Donnybrook, Dublin 4. As RTÉ's biggest at the time, the studio held 120 audience members. There was no show broadcast on 26 November 1982 due to the general election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Smurfs (Hanna-Barbera Series)
''The Smurfs'' (Broadcast syndication, syndicated as ''Smurfs' Adventures'') is an animation, animated fantasy-comedy Television program, children's television series that originally aired on NBC from 12 September 1981 to 2 December 1989, lasted for eight years. Produced by Hanna-Barbera, Hanna-Barbera Productions, it is based on the Belgian comic series The Smurfs (comics), by the same name, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo (who also served as story supervisor of this adaptation) and aired for 258 episodes with a total of 419 stories, excluding three cliffhanger episodes and seven The Smurfs Specials, specials. History In 1976, Stuart R. Ross, an American media and entertainment entrepreneur who saw the Smurfs while traveling in Belgium, entered into an agreement with Editions Dupuis and Peyo, acquiring North American and other rights to the characters, whose original name was "les Schtroumpfs". Subsequently, Ross launched the Smurfs in the United States in association with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Today Tonight (Ireland)
''Today Tonight'' was an Irish news and current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis, robust cross-examination of senior politicians and investigative reporting. The programme was broadcast on RTÉ One for the first time on Monday 6 October 1980. Brian Farrell, Barry Cowan and Olivia O'Leary were the three original presenters. They were subsequently joined by others such as Pat Cox, John Bowman and Pat Kenny. All of these presenters later went on to hold other positions in RTÉ Television. ''Today Tonight'' was broadcast from Monday to Thursday on RTÉ One after the main evening news and restored the station's reputation for current affairs broadcasting following the demise of ''7 Days'' in 1976. The last edition of the programme was broadcast on 27 August 1992 and was replaced by ''Prime Time''. It won a number of Jacob's Awards. An in-depth report into the 14 February 1981 Stardust fire broadcast by ''Today Tonight'' on 16 February 1981 led to a senior a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
