History
The Den began in 1986 as Dempsey's Den, it was fronted by Ian Dempsey for many years, and ran from 16:00 to 18:00 every weekday, broadcasting originally on RTÉ 1 after Live at Three, before switching to Network 2 with an additional hour following its revamp in 1987. It contained almost all of RTÉ's children's programming output for many years, with the exception of Bosco (shown immediately before The Den) and a half-hour of teenage oriented programming (Jo Maxi) shown immediately after The Den.
In 1990, Ian Dempsey was replaced by Ray D'Arcy, although he remained for a number of years afterwards in the regular pop music section of the show, "Pop Goes The Den". D'Arcy presented the show until 1998, when he was replaced by Damien McCaul. Francis Boylan, Jr. took over the reins in 2003. Over time, the programme dropped the leading "Dempsey's", and alternated between the names The Den and Den TV. Following the re-brand of Network 2 to N2 in 1997, Den TV became Den2, but this reverted to The Den in 2002.
In 2003, The Den introduced a daily news programme for children, news2day, somewhat similar to the BBC's Newsround.
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