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Poll: Will you watch the new Be3 channel?

The new channel will broadcast news bulletins at 7 and 10pm.

A NEW CHANNEL called Be3 aired at 7am this morning.

The channel is replacing UTV Ireland following a takeover by Virgin Media, which also owns TV3 group, last July.

Be3 will broadcast children’s programming in the morning, and drama and chat in the afternoon. It will also broadcast news bulletins at 7 and 10pm.

So in today’s poll we’re asking, will you watch the new Be3 channel?


Poll Results:

No (9805)
I don't know (3948)
Yes (2871)

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    Mute Blue MARIGOLD
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:03 AM

    Today’s lineup includes gems such as Xpose, Judge Judy, Surprise Surprise and some programme with Elaine “I don’t know how to shut up” Crowley. Who watches this crap !!??

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:56 AM

    @Blue MARIGOLD: Don’t knock Judge Judy.

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    Mute Tricia Golden
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    Jan 9th 2017, 11:01 AM

    @Blue MARIGOLD: I think you’ll find from the viewing figures that not many people will be watching.

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    Mute Super Ted
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    Jan 9th 2017, 2:11 PM

    I’m looking forward to this! A new TV station with fascinating people chatting about their busy lives on the couch. Loads more Irish celebrities will be made on this channel and we’ll get to follow their footsteps into the entertainment industry while learning about their childhood/teenage years and all the trials & tribulations of growing up in Blackrock. Exciting isn’t it!

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    Mute Tricia Golden
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    Jan 9th 2017, 2:13 PM

    @Super Ted: You’re fooling no one pal.

    Good attempt though :)

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    Mute onebox
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    Jan 9th 2017, 2:47 PM

    Just another women’s channel for the bored housewife, or the lazy young ones.

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    Mute GameOverMan
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    Jan 9th 2017, 2:55 PM

    OMG how boring!!

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    Mute Limerick Gazette
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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:26 PM

    @Blue MARIGOLD: Don’t forget there is also another great opportunity to watch their Breakfast Show in case you missed it on TV3 or missed the repeat on TV3+1 or the repeat on 3e or the repeat on 3e+1. So that one show takes up 15 hours of airtime every day. Someone needs to get fired and fast.

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    Mute Eoin Mulhern
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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:35 AM

    UTV Ireland was a disaster this will probably be as well. The worst thing about UTV Ireland is that there could be football on UTV or ITV and we had to stick with awful TV shows and repeats.

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    Mute Conor Talbot
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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:47 AM

    @Eoin Mulhern:

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:31 AM

    @Conor Talbot:

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    Mute Conor Talbot
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    Jan 9th 2017, 1:04 PM

    I replied a blank message by accident,phone was in my pocket :)

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    Mute An_Beal_Bocht
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    Jan 9th 2017, 8:17 PM

    There is little or no football on ITV now only the odd England international. I’d nearly watch Expose before I’d watch those sheep in a heap

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    Mute Anne Mullen
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    Jan 10th 2017, 1:41 AM

    Are we going to get UTV back

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    Mute Nucky
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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:45 AM

    It’s just UTV Ireland Mark ll really , should have left things alone with UTV NI

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    Mute An_Beal_Bocht
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    Jan 9th 2017, 8:11 PM

    UTV is still there and freely available, it’s still cr*p though

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    Mute David Murphy
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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:33 AM

    I doubt I will ever watch it, but I wish them well.

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    Mute Alex Falcone
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:17 AM

    No.
    I’m painting the shed.

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    Mute Gavin Murphy
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    Jan 9th 2017, 11:20 AM

    I might watch that dry

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    Mute Alex Falcone
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    Jan 9th 2017, 12:59 PM

    @Gavin Murphy:
    I’ll put it on YouTube Gavin.

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    Mute John Mahon
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:28 AM

    I can just tell by that yolk on the right of the photo it’ll be more xpose crap, nothing important or interesting. I think the Irish need and deserve more at this stage.

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    Mute Carol C.
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    Jan 9th 2017, 3:54 PM

    @John Mahon: ‘that yoke’…what a lovely attitude you have towards Women.

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    Mute Les Behan
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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:42 AM

    Same old rubbish Irish TV format!

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    Mute Smidgen Dublin
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:58 AM

    Why can’t ITV or UTV as we had before, be reinstated?

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    Mute An_Beal_Bocht
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    Jan 9th 2017, 8:10 PM

    ITV and UTv are still both freely available on freeview, don’t pretend though that there’s anything worth watching on them either

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:03 AM

    I’m just hoping they keep The Chase. Probably the only show I watch everyday.

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    Mute Blue MARIGOLD
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:13 AM

    The Chase has a daily 1 pm slot – now on TV3.

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    Mute Bingobango
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:37 AM

    That’s not gonna work for me unfortunately. I wish they’d just left the UTV from the North ffs.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 1:43 PM

    @Bingobango:
    Oh my God I cannot believe this.
    A journal reader who works?
    Listen here bingobango you need to go out there and loose your job!!

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    Mute Max Johnson Powers
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    Jan 9th 2017, 4:10 PM

    Learn to spell Adolf.

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    Mute KM TON
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:04 AM

    I’m a man so i’m not sure if i’m allowed to watch it. Might annoy the feminist types.

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    Mute Alan Scott
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:29 AM

    The cheapest of reality and rubbish tv

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    Mute Mrs M
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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:53 AM

    I rarely watch Irish TV !

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    Mute Limerick Gazette
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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:56 AM

    A channel for all the imported shows that RTE would not ever air because they don’t feature some of the overpriced morans like Darcy, Tubridy and the rest of the motley crew whose families and friends have a foothold at Montrose since the dawn of civilisation. No thank you I’ll pass I have enough of Kenny & Byrne and their equals to last me several lifetimes.

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    Mute Kt Kelly
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    Jan 9th 2017, 12:07 PM

    Expose and Mid-Day are bad enough; Do we really need an entire channel of this rubbish?

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    Mute Tricia Golden
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    Jan 9th 2017, 1:28 PM

    No.

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    Jan 10th 2017, 1:42 AM

    I enjoyed midday

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    Mute Paul
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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:54 AM

    nope cancelled Virgin TV yesterday and ordered satellite

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    Jan 9th 2017, 11:41 AM

    @Paul Done it myself sometime ago and got Sky Q would never think of going with Veronica Media again . A total waste of money. You won’t regret it.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 11:44 AM

    Apologies it was Virgin and for some reason it changed

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:24 AM

    Does this mean we get normal utv back? Cos it wasn’t the worst really. If they’d just turned it into a channel for the whole island it might have done ok. But maybe them up north wouldn’t like that. A united channel. Mightn’t sit well.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:31 AM

    @bazhealy I have searched the Sky and it’s not on

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    Jan 9th 2017, 12:26 PM

    @bazhealy: Yip, all viewers ever wanted in the first place was the normal UTV, maybe with some local input from , `the south`. But instead they spent a fortune pushing unwatchable rubbish as if there wan`t enough of that out there already.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:06 AM

    Anything to do with TV3 I avoid like the plague

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    Mute Malachy Rivers
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    Jan 9th 2017, 11:07 AM

    @EC P Ford: except polls and comments sections about TV3!!!

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:15 AM

    No comments yet about dancing with the tarts !!!

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:24 AM

    @john g mcgrath: We will be poisoned with this rubbish.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 11:39 AM

    @john g mcgrath: And a token traveller who was on Big Brother.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 11:22 AM

    The station was like a tabloid newspaper, utter brain rot, unless there is dramatic change in the programming direction any takeover will be bound to fail.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:49 AM

    No, I’m alright for the auld vitaros cream thanks.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:58 AM

    I dont watch much T.V.as most of it is rubbish .if i want to look at a film i download it .for news R.T. and listen to the radio .How people spend 7 or 8 hours every night looking at rubbish and know more what goes on in coronation st. or eastenders than what goes on in their own community ,poverty , evictions etc .

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:21 AM

    You watch rt news and think you know what’s going on? Lol! Other news networks are bad but that Putin lovefest is a joke.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 1:33 PM

    Suppose you’re a vegan too?

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    Jan 9th 2017, 3:27 PM

    R.T is the only news channel we have where we can get a different perspective on things. Without it, we would only have access to western bias and propaganda. So it’s an important channel. Balance is needed.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 3:58 PM

    Ever heard of Al jazeera? RT is just Russian propaganda. Couldn’t stomach more than a few minutes of it. Their own staff resign live on air rather than read the BS they get handed!

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    Jan 9th 2017, 4:03 PM
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    Jan 9th 2017, 4:23 PM

    @Bryan Mannix: Just balance it with some Russian bias and propaganda then?!

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    Jan 9th 2017, 5:06 PM

    @Niamh Kenneally: Yes you should balance it, Take Allepo for example. The mainstream media sold us a narrative that the US/NATO backed these “rebels” bravely resisting government oppression . When in truth these “rebels” killed hundreds if not thousands of innocent civilians, had links to Al Queda(the people who did 9/11), made thousands of civilians flee to the safety of the government-held area,did mass Isis style beheadings of women and children and were regarded by most Syrian natives as “terrorists”. The only way you could’ve possibly have seen these “brave rebels” wrong doings was on R.T news. Main stream media never show anything that the US/NATO do wrong unless there is literally no escaping from it.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 5:17 PM
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:04 AM

    Judging by the picture YES!!!

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:32 AM

    Go to Sky press services then add channels and type in the code for utv witch you will find on the web of things before hand. Go straight for the jugular right to Ulster television!!!!!!!

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    Mute Stephen
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    Jan 9th 2017, 2:44 PM

    Can’t record it, see whats on and selecting the channel is a right pain. You can still find it but….

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    Jan 9th 2017, 4:12 PM

    Can’t see what’s on? Use a tv guide. Sky box is limiting? Get rid of it.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 12:32 PM

    More pointless fodder for the semi-comatose and too complacent – no thanks.

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    Mute Ger
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:57 AM

    Will try to reserve judgment til I see their line up over the next few days but from reading the comments on here I wouldn’t be too hopeful. Seriously why couldn’t they just leave us with UTV Northern Ireland and wee Julian.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 2:15 PM

    Its the accent of some of these presenters. it’s like so hord to listen to?

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    Mute Laura-Leigh
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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:57 AM

    Who watches tv anymore?

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    Jan 9th 2017, 12:31 PM

    What do you watch?

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    Jan 9th 2017, 4:14 PM

    I do Laura-Leigh. I have a sneaking suspicion that I am not alone.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 8:12 PM

    @Laura-Leigh: Indeed, haven’t watched TV for years. About 1 hour last year, couldn’t stay watching with the ads every 15 minutes, ‘trailers’ for programs giving the whole program away.

    Selective watching now, so Netflix, YouTube etc.

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    Mute Mick Power
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    Jan 9th 2017, 8:26 PM

    But do you watch them on the TV?

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:20 AM

    There lovely girls.

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    Mute James Carpenter
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    Jan 9th 2017, 1:26 PM

    Not a new channel just re-named

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    Jan 9th 2017, 1:24 PM

    Why do they need it? What’s its purpose?? They should stick with what they have, no need for it, just the same as UTV Ireland, no need whatsoever. The poll above proves that

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    Mute Stephen
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    Jan 9th 2017, 2:49 PM

    Welcome to US TV, Trump would be proud. With TV ad revenue falling and millennials not watching TV unless it can be streamed or the adverts fast forwarded, then this is the future. That or a TV license you have to get a bank loan for.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 7:12 PM

    Can’t be any worse than TV3 who have Brendan Grace on repeat for the past 15 years.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 1:23 PM

    The definition of Mediocrity

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    Jan 9th 2017, 2:44 PM

    Is it a channel for the long term unemployed?

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    Jan 9th 2017, 3:50 PM

    Does anyone remember Mark Cagney when he was a DJ? What happened? A morning slot on tv3 with whoever. Its candy floss. He was a Creedon dj alike. Big loss. Get back to your roots Cagney. Love tg4. Imports a lot of european stuff. Think we forget we’re in europe and not the US half the time.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 3:04 PM

    I won’t be watching it as I don’t have any channels yet I for some reason STILL have to pay for it through a TV license

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    Jan 9th 2017, 7:33 PM

    There’s a new series at 9pm tonight called Aerial Ireland. Looks good. The other programming no thanks.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 8:17 PM

    Wanna Be Brits

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    Jan 9th 2017, 5:25 PM

    Is there already a channel called A3?
    Is there an A2, A1?

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    Jan 9th 2017, 10:58 AM

    Can we please just have UTV (ITV) back?

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    Jan 9th 2017, 2:37 PM

    Seems rival TV stations have all their rent-a-crowd busily posting here! Why else would anyone who has absolutely no time for the new station be so arsedas to get so busy denouncing it? Seems like an orchestrated campaign of professional vilification to me. Why not just ignore it?

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    Jan 9th 2017, 4:16 PM

    It’s called having an opinion. It’s possible to have one about something you don’t like.

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    Jan 9th 2017, 5:17 PM

    Everyone will be watchin this

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    Jan 9th 2017, 9:20 PM

    They will in there hole!!

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