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RTE Sport reports that Rally Ireland was the most watched World Rally Championship event in 2007 according to global TV figures.
Dubai Duty Free is the new sponsor of the Curragh Derby. The horse race will be known as the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby until 2012. The full story is available on the Irish Times website (subscription required.)
The BBC reports that France’s National Assembly passes a bill to make promotion of anorexia and extreme thinness an offence.
The Irish Times points out that funding for makers of radio and television programmes awarded by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) will be half what it was in previous years, from this year (subscription required.)
According to the Irish Independent, “the RTE Authority will be scrapped and a powerful new broadcasting watchdog will take control of regulation of both the State broadcaster and the independent TV and radio sector.”
Breakingnews.ie has been redesigned. Cian Ginty points out that “it’s the first attempt by an Irish national newspaper company to use embedded video and audio in the main section of their website.”
The Irish Independent reports on plans by Minister for Communications, Eamon Ryan TD, to restrict junk food adverts on children’s television as part of the the new Broadcasting Bill, which will see a Broadcasting Authority which will have the power to ban such adverts through a code of advertising standards.
And finally, Paddy Clancy has bowed out of RTE’s ‘Morning Ireland’. The Irish Independent reports that Clancy, “who has been reviewing the morning newspapers for the RTE flagship radio show since the early 1980s”, has retired.
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