ShevShe

[mypost]

Today is the 10th birthday of commercial station TV3

Anyone remember the day they first went on air??

[sligoman]

10 years...I'm getting old.

Don't remember the exact stuff they put on the day but I remember the ad campaign constantly ran in the build up to the launch. "Three, is the magic number...yes it is, it's the magic number... no more no less, three's the best"

"What size shoe do ya want, size three is it"

[mypost]

One of the first programmes was the news at 6.00, which was an hour long special, which saw the first news story continuing the fallout from the Starr revelations of Lewinski-gate.

It introduced DJ Kinger to present the weather in his unique style. Cantwell was shown with his fingers up his nose, on the late night news round up. While Sports Tonight was launched on the first day, a Sunday, amid much advertising and fanfare.

After Kinger's weather report, RTE's MD lost the plot. He promptly fired all his meterologists, only to re-instate them part-time following viewer revolt. Cue the introduction of Buckley and Carey et al to our screens.

[Pauro 76]

Why's the thread called ShevShe? i remember the first weather forecast on TV3. Middle of a heatwave, Martin King in his sunglasses and using an ironing board as a surfboard saying hello to Michelle and Katy in Banagher and happy birthday to Niall in Lifford.

[mypost]

It's Apres Match's take on the channel name.

King's weather forecasts were and still are, cringeworthy, but he's not near as bad as the worst brolley dolly on tv, so called pro Jean Byrne. Some of her sleepy slow-mo weather descriptions, as depressingly demonstrated below:

"There


will


be


heav-y


rain


spread-ing


across


the


country


to-night.


It


will


be


rain-ing


for


the


ent-ire


wee-kend


ac-comp-an-ied


by


stormforce


winds


and


the


out-look


for


next


week


re-mains


ver-y


un-sett-led."


Zzzzzzzzzz

[Pauro 76]

i must youtube that. is that the one where Aidan Cooney starts whispering tvthree in his links? Still love Gerald Fleming though.

That's it from me. Good night to you.