Virgin Media Television (Ireland)

This article is about a company. For the company's flagship television channel, see Virgin Media One. For the UK company formerly named Virgin Media Television, see Living TV Group.
"TV3 Group" redirects here. For the pan-Baltic media group based in Latvia, see TV3 Group (Baltics). For other uses, see Channel 3 (disambiguation).

Virgin Media Television
Formerly• TV3 Television Network Ltd. (legal name until August 2018)
• TV3 Group (trade name until August 2018)
Company typePublic/Limited
IndustryBroadcasting
Founded20 September 1998
Founder• John Kelleher
• Ossie Kilkenny
• Paul McGuinness
• James Morris
Headquarters
Ballymount, Dublin
,
Ireland
Area served
Ireland and Northern Ireland
Key people
Paul Farrell
Products• Television services
• Transmission
• E-publishing (teletext and web)
• Commercial telecoms services
RevenueIncrease €57.4 million (2009)[1][2][3]
OwnerLiberty Global
Number of employees
250 (2015[4])
ParentVirgin Media Ireland
Websitewww.virginmediatelevision.ie

Virgin Media Television Ltd (formerly known as TV3 Television Network Ltd; previously traded as the TV3 Group until August 2018) is a commercial television company in Ireland, based in Dublin. Launched in 1998 as TV3 Television Network, the TV3 Group was formed in January 2009. The company was acquired by Liberty Global in 2015, and the channels were rebranded to Virgin Media Television in 2018.[5]

Virgin Media Ireland was reportedly put up for sale by its owner Liberty Global in June 2021.[6] By November 2021, the then chief executive had reportedly "ruled this out".[7]

  1. ^ "Doughty Hanson Annual Review" (PDF). London: Doughty Hanson. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  2. ^ "Doughty Hanson Annual Review 2008". Doughty Hanson & Co. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
  3. ^ "Doughty Hanson Annual Review 2009" (PDF). Doughty Hanson & Co. 1 January 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
  4. ^ "TV3 Acquired by UPC, a Subsidiary of Liberty Global plc". Dublin: tv3.ie. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  5. ^ "TV3 will rebrand to Virgin and add sports channel this autumn". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Private equity waits in wings as Virgin Media Ireland up for sale". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Virgin Media completes €1bn refinancing as accumulated losses rise". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 12 November 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2022.