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The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 2011. ==Events== *4 January – Freeview announces details for the launch of ITV1+1, together with the possibility that both STV and UTV will launch their own timeshift services, STV +1 and UTV +1 in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ITV1 + 1 to launch on 11 January 2011 )〕 UTV later confirms it will launch UTV+1 at 8pm on 11 January 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Virgin Media viewers get access to ITV1+1 tonight )〕 *May – ''Mission to Prey'', presented by Aoife Kavanagh, is aired on RTÉ One, leading to the defamation of Fr. Kevin Reynolds. Justice and Defence Minister Alan Shatter supports the programme at the time. *23 May – Helen O'Rahilly, a former director of television at RTÉ launches a scathing attack on its flagship programme, ''The Late Late Show'' amid criticism that standards on the programme have slipped since Ryan Tubridy took over as host in 2009. In an online blog, O'Rahilly says, “If I was back in charge of RTÉ, you wouldn’t see this utter shite on Friday night”. *25 May – RTÉ News Now revamps its on-screen identity, giving viewers more detailed content. *26 May – Saorview, the free to air digital television service is launched. The service has eight channels – RTÉ One, RTÉ Two HD, TV3, TG4, RTÉ News Now, 3e, RTÉjr and RTÉ One + 1 – and is available to 97% of households in Ireland. Saorview also carries a new digital RTÉ Aertel service and RTÉ's radio services. *6 June – The BBC announces that the national variations of BBC One Northern Ireland, BBC One Scotland and BBC One Wales will become available in high definition in 2012. *6 October – BBC Director General Mark Thompson announces that BBC HD will close to be replaced by a high definition simulcast of BBC Two. This ''BBC Two HD'' will work much the same way as BBC One HD. This move allows the corporation to save £2.1 million, used to count towards their budget deficit following the freezing of the license fee and the additional financial responsibility of addition services. *8 October – TV3's Video on Demand (VOD) is relaunched as 3Player. It replaces the original TV3 Catch-Up service previously available at tv3.ie and through its iPhone/iPad app. The new service was revealed at a press call the previous day1. It is estimated by the TV3 Group that the service will be worth about €7.5 million by 2015. 3Player is in HTML5 format which makes it available on the majority of operating systems. *15 November – The Houses of the Oireachtas Channel begins broadcasting on UPC Ireland channel 801, as part of a trial initiative for a period of six months. *23 November – ''Prime Time Investigates'' is axed as Director-General of RTÉ Noel Curran describes the broadcasting of "Mission to Prey" as "one of the gravest editorial mistakes ever made" at RTÉ. *19 December - Eugene Heary wins the fourth series of ''The Apprentice''. *26 December – Launch of TV50, a series of special events throughout 2012, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the launch of RTÉ Television, then known as Telefís Éireann, on 31 December 1961. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2011 in Irish television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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