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UTV IRELAND HAS announced its latest hire 10 days before the station goes to air – that of weather presenter Jenny Buckley.
The actress-turned TV host will be seen on the station every weekday after its news and current affairs programmes, Ireland Live and Ireland Live at 10.
She joins Ireland’s newest station, which is due to launch on New Year’s Day, after previously working as a presenter on the then-Channel 6 and RTÉ.
Buckley started out as an actress and had small parts in a few films and TV series, and has done voice-over work for UPC, Bank of Ireland and Dunnes Stores, among others.
She said she had followed UTV Ireland’s story since the station was announced and she had been keen to get involved.
The channel’s HD studios and headquarters are hugely impressive and, having met the whole team, I am counting down the days until we launch on 1 January,” she said.
Some of the best
UTV Ireland channel head Mary Curtis said the station had recruited some of the best journalists and broadcasters in the industry ahead of its launch.
We have been doing a number of screen tests for weather in recent weeks and Jenny’s strong presence and warm personality shine through on camera,” she said.
Big hire Pat Kenny, who has been the main face of the new station through the year, will return to TV with a 1-hour special on New Year’s Day and a new series from March.
He recently told TheJournal.ie his show was “still in the melting pot” but it would involve an audience and guests.
The station has set its target as being Ireland’s second most-watched channel after RTÉ1 – although its main rival at launch will be TV3.
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She’s no Martin King
thank God……..
With a bit of luck this will signal the end of TV3 and shows like ‘Ireland’s Dream Debs’ or ‘Boozed up Brits abroad’
or the town the travellers took over for the 1000 th time poxy station.
She’s easy on the eye, weather you like her or not!!
TG 4 presenters are far better.
That’s me tuning in anyway, I’ll probably tune out again when Kenny comes on though.
Great. Does she know anything about weather by the way…..ah well , it doesn’t really matter
Yes I was wondering the same.
I reread her CV to see when she completed her degree in meteorology.
what’s the difference between UTV Ireland and the UTV we have now???
@Pauline
The difference:
TV3 still has the Republic rights to The X-Factor and Downton Abbey and UTV Ireland won’t have ITV News or Good Morning Britain either.
Journal really scraping the bottom for stories these days.
Careful now, criticism like that will get you censored on The Journal. Remember, free speech is ok as long as it aligns with The Journal’s views. Ok?
Think TG4 are still ahead in the weather presenter stakes.
Horrible logo. Does the U stand for U-Bend?
This may shock you to learn, but I believe the bend was actually named after the letter, and not vice versa.
Ooonnnnlllyyyyyyy Denis o’brien has nothing to do with UTV
I’ll give them a year before they pack up and head up North where they belong.. TV3 have the tacky TV market covered down here.
Borderline news
Credibility Zero just more Dennis O’Brian media.
Not a bad choice for Global news:
http://therealnews.com/
No. U = ULSTER SAYS NO!
Isn’t the name choice for the station a little strange . So now they have ‘Ulster TV’ for people in Ulster- fair enough but ‘Ulster TV Ireland’ for the rest of the island although many of their viewers in Ulster would consider them themselves living in Ireland
@Tweety
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTV_%28TV_channel%29#History
“At the company’s annual general meeting in Belfast on 26 May 2006, the registered company name was changed from ‘Ulster Television plc’ to ‘UTV plc’. The company believed that the existing name no longer reflected the full scope of the company’s business. In a further change in October 2007, UTV underwent a corporate reorganisation which saw UTV shareholders swap their shares for shares in a new holding company, UTV Media plc, which took over UTV plc’s shareholdings in the new media and radio subsidiaries. UTV Ltd. – the original Ulster Television Limited, now a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media – has returned to being solely the operating company for the ITV franchise.”
what,s all the fuss about its another channel there.s an off button on the remote
viewers choice what to watch
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