TV3 cancels The Dunphy Show
Friday, 5 December 2003 18:31
TV3 has announced it is cancelling The Dunphy Show. In a statement, the station said that it was impossible to keep the Friday night chat show going for commercial reasons.
TV3 paid tribute to what it called the 'extraordinary talents of Eamon and the entire production'.
The statement said that licence fee increases over the last two years had impacted on its opportunity to invest in Irish programming.
Speaking after the announcement, Eamon Dunphy thanked the station and the viewers for their support.
RTÉ responds to TV3 statement
In a statement, RTÉ said that TV3 had made a statement which was factually inaccurate against RTÉ.
RTÉ said that TV3 had endeavoured to blame RTÉ's excellent programming skills for the company's failure to deliver indigenous programmes to the Irish people.
RTÉ said that it did receive one substantial licence fee increase this year which was applied directly to new programming.
It said that it had published its statements on programming commitments for this year and will be reporting on its achievements in meeting these commitments.
