General History
Prior to the launch of TV3, its strategy was to produce Ireland's first independent television news service. The first televisual broadcast of TV3 News took place at 18:00 on 20 September 1998, 30 minutes after the channel launched. TV3 News was initially presented by Gráinne Seoige and Alan Cantwell. The current main evening bulletin takes place from 17:30 to 18:00 and is presented by Alan Cantwell and Colette Fitzpatrick. All bulletins are broadcast from the chromakeyed news studio at the TV3 studio complex at Ballymount, Dublin. TV3 News Tonight was broadcast Monday to Friday at 23:00. The Week in Review broadcast on Sunday nights at 23:00.
On 20 October 2008, TV3 announced that it was axing the Friday broadcast of TV3 Nightly News, moving current affairs programme The Political Party to replace it. (The Political Party has itself since been cancelled and replaced with Midweek). The Saturday and Sunday editions of TV3 News at 5:30 were also cut back, with TV3 News at 5:30 being axed from the weekend schedules to be replaced by five-minute news bulletins.
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