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A round-up of news, comment and other info from news sites blogs, and message boards etc…

Cardinal challenges the media’s ‘dominant’ secular view
Sunday World top of the pops as it avoids musical marketing
Ireland’s papers defy downward trends
JNLR July 07-June 08 Survey results issued (PDF)
ABC IofI report (PDF, link replaced when new report released)
Tom Dunne to Newstalk
Today FM to preserve Pet Sounds
Ray of sunshine
Muzu makes music pa
Media world: Too Late Late for Pat Kenny?
RTE promises ’spectacular’ first Late Late Show despite Kenny’s delay in signing up
Lung cancer under reported in Irish media - report
Sunday Times to launch monthly Irish edition of Style magazine
South Ossetian man angered by Irish media coverage
MediaBite Email Re: The €11m ‘gas bill’
Media ought to beware groups bearing surveys
Belfast Telegraph relaunched website sees huge traffic spike
Myers and Nigerians
RTE Television unveils new season
Sponsors fail to check in to Failte Towers
The Big Switch over
BCI National Conference Asks ‘Does the Medium Matter?’
O’Brien group told January DTT launch is a ‘fantasy’
Digital terrestrial TV available from autumn next year
Adverts rate alert for Channel 6
TV3 to buy Channel 6 for €10m
Is RTE Radio 1 being dumbed down?
Mandy and the Irish Media

The following is a round-up of Irish media news for December 2007…

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Sometimes reading just one newspaper isn’t enough…

COMMENT: If you were to have read Richard Delevan’s Publius in the Sunday Tribune you’d seen that the Channel 6 chairman Pat Donnelly was writing letters to Irish ad agencies dismissing the industry-trusted Nielsen audience measurement as "JUNK".

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Adammaguire.com has the story that Channel 6 looks set to be broadcasted on the Sky Digital platform. The station has said that they will make a “major announcement in relation to the Channel’s carriage” at a press conference this Wednesday.

The channel is currently only on NTL and Chorus cable services. The news follows the recent introduction of Channel 4 to the Sky Digital offering in Ireland.