UTV to launch Irish channel with significant chunks of ITV content…

So UTV are to launch a new Dublin based channel in 2015 [so, at least one player will have achieved a united Ireland by 2016- Ed]. In effect this is a major corporate challenge to TV3 who currently have the key to three of ITV’s major flagship franchises: Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Jeremy Kyle. They have separate

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