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36-429: The series is currently shown live on ITV4 as part of the channel's coverage of BTCC race days. The Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain had its inaugural Season in 2003, and is since then held across England, Scotland and Ireland. The Championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers. The Drivers compete in identical 911 Carrera GT3 Cup Cars, that conform technical regulations for

72-670: A Personal Video Recorder , the UPC Mediabox, marketed as the Digital+ or Digital+HD Box in ex-NTL areas, subsequently rolled out to other areas. On 5 August 2009 UPC launched its HDTV service in Ireland, which includes many international and regional television broadcasters. In April 2013, UPC launched its Horizon TV service, which allows UPC customers to watch a selection of television channels from various internet enabled devices using their UPC broadband connection. On 12 August 2013, UPC launched

108-667: A mobile virtual network operator using Three 's infrastructure. As of Q3 2020, the market share of Virgin Mobile in Ireland is 2.2%. The main product offered by Virgin Media Ireland is cable television services, in SD and HD digital formats, using DVB-C encrypted using Nagravision . Digital is now available in the vast majority of areas, with the Cork cable network becoming the first in Ireland to become digital-only. On 14 August 2007, UPC launched

144-464: A "slate-grey" logo and became the "home of sport and cult classics". Channel promotion includes pub factoids and idents featuring viewer nominated "dreams come true". ITV4 received its first revamp in nine years in November 2022 as part of a redesign of all of ITV's main channels, being carried out in tandem with the launch of the streaming service ITVX . The idents launched on 15 November 2022. The logo

180-687: A 100 Mbit/s broadband service which would be offered to home users across its broadband-capable network in the coming months. In December 2010 UPC launched its 100 Mb Fibre Power Broadband package, making it the fastest ISP for residential customers in Ireland at the time. In September 2012, UPC increased the maximum speed available to residential customers to 150 Mb, while increasing their entry-level speed to 50 Mb. Virgin Media now offer 500 Mbit/s, 1 Gbit/s and 2 Gbit/s speeds to residential users. Virgin Mobile launched in October 2015 as

216-422: A Horizon HD+ set-top box. It offers HD as standard and consolidates all services (TV, broadband and home phone) into one device. It also allows customers to record four television programmes while watching a fifth. On 25 May 2012 UPC Ireland launched its UPC On-Demand TV service in Ireland, with a full roll-out expected to be complete by September. A similar service had already been rolled out to UPC customers in

252-506: A division of ITV plc , and is part of the ITV network. The channel focuses primarily on general entertainment programming targeting a male audience , with a particular focus on action series and films, gameshows , reality television , and sports . It is the main linear television outlet for ITV Sport , carrying much of its football, cycling, darts, horse racing, rugby, and snooker coverage (with ITV1 used primarily for marquee events). It

288-451: A helping hand for young sports car drivers to build a professional racing career. This new class is primarily for young professional race drivers, aged between 17 and 24, with no prior Carrera Cup experience. By operating in its own class, Rookies are also able to compete within one of the other championship categories. The first place wins up to £50.000, the second place wins £20.000 and the third place still wins £10.000. By competing in one of

324-611: A leaflet with their bills explaining that a rebrand would occur on 21 October. That did not happen, however, on 30 October 2007, the NTL Ireland and Chorus websites were merged into a single website, although the composite Chorus NTL logo is used on it rather than the UPC logo. In November 2007, NTL Business was rebranded UPC Business, making it the first part of the company to officially adopt the UPC name. On 29 April 2008 UPC's former Cork Communications cable network, latterly part of Chorus, became

360-690: A media plurality test by the Department of Communications. On 28 August 2015, it was announced that UPC Ireland would become Virgin Media Ireland, thus dropping the UPC brand and replaced by the Virgin brand. The name change took place on 5 October. In June 2021, it was reported that Liberty Global was seeking to sell Virgin Media Ireland after they merged their British Virgin Media company with that of Telefónica's O2. Virgin Media Ireland focuses on four key areas; cable television, broadband, mobile and telephone. The company offers broadband internet services using

396-553: A prime support race to British Touring Car Championship and is featured on a 7-hour live coverage on ITV4 each race weekend. Teams, Drivers and sponsors benefit from the Porsche Carrera Cup GB being broadcast on live TV. In 2006 Porsche introduced a Pro-Am racing class (PA) for non-professional race drivers, giving them a chance to elevate their passion and benchmark their skills on the best national stage possible. By introducing an all-new Rookie class in 2015, Porsche provides

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432-463: Is Liberty Global 's telecommunications operation in Ireland. It is the largest digital cable television provider within the country. As of 3 August 2024, the company offers broadband internet, digital television digital ( VoIP ) telephony and mobile phone services to 1 million customers (31 December 2014). Until 4 May 2010, Virgin Media Ireland traded under the name Chorus NTL and UPC Ireland until 5 October 2015. Its main competitors in

468-554: Is now coloured green and uses idents that are cross-used across ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, and ITVBe with different views which reflect the channel's image and programming output. Before ITV4's launch in 2005, ITV's digital sports coverage was on ITV2, but after its launch all sports coverage moved to ITV4. In its first week, it had coverage of the aforementioned Real Betis v Chelsea game in the UEFA Champions League , and also had coverage of Middlesbrough v Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in

504-646: The EuroDOCSIS 3.0 standard as well as a VoIP -based telephone service using PacketCable . In addition, Virgin Media Ireland offers to business customers standard voice and internet services to more advanced services such as Ethernet LAN extensions, corporate voice services, and high-speed internet. These services are offered to large corporations, public organisations, and small to medium size businesses in Ireland, primarily in Cork , Dublin, Galway , Limerick , and Waterford . In May 2010, Virgin Media Ireland announced plans for

540-600: The Netherlands , Hungary , Switzerland , Poland and Austria . The service provides all customers with unlimited access to RTÉ Player and Virgin Media Player , with TG4 Player set to follow suit. Max package customers are also able to watch BBC , ITV and US box sets and additional content from the likes of Discovery Channel , Food Network , FX , History , MGM and True Movies . The video on demand service also allows customers in Ireland to watch classic movies and

576-487: The UEFA Champions League ( Liverpool v Anderlecht was on ITV1 at the same time), the UK premiere of Kojak , and the film Carlito's Way . In late October 2008, it was announced that a timeshifted (+1) version of ITV4 would be launched by the end of the year. ITV4 +1 was launched on Sky on 1 December 2008, on Freesat on 9 December 2008 and on Virgin Media on 25 March 2010. It was delisted from Sky on 11 January 2011, due to

612-769: The UEFA Cup on the Thursday, and Amir Khan's fight against Steve Gethin from the Braehead Arena in Glasgow on the Saturday. Football Cycling Rugby union Horse racing Motorsport Darts Snooker Boxing Wrestling Football Boat race Boxing Cricket Snooker Darts Motorsport Cycling Rugby Union Tennis Virgin Media Ireland Virgin Media Ireland

648-608: The UK Open and the Players Championship Finals ) as well as highlights of other sporting events and content from the ITV Sport archives. On 1 November 2022, in the lead up to the launch of ITVX and as part of the 18th anniversary of ITV3 and 17th anniversary of ITV4, the encryption was dropped on ITV4 HD at around 11am that day and so became free to air. Later that day, Freesat data had been added to ITV4 HD, indicating that

684-625: The European Union/EEA through ALIA in Luxembourg. ITV4's launch night was on Freeview channel 30. Although it was broadcast on the Astra 2D satellite used by Sky, so users could manually tune it in. It was launched on Sky channel 120, after ITV2 and ITV3 in the listings, on 1 November. Prior to this date, some sporting content was simulcast on Men & Motors in an ITV4 on M&M strand. It officially launched with Real Betis v Chelsea in

720-670: The Irish pay TV market are Sky Ireland , Eir and Vodafone Ireland . Liberty Global and its predecessors UGC Europe and Tele-Communications Inc. have had shareholdings in Chorus Communications and its predecessor, Princes Holdings (Irish Multichannel), since the company's formation in the early 1990s. Originally a joint venture with Independent News and Media , IN&M sold its shares to Liberty in 2004. In May 2005, NTL agreed to sell its Irish operations NTL Ireland (previously Cablelink) to Liberty Global. Morgan Stanley held

756-731: The UPC Ireland line-up on 20 December 2011. Virgin Media One and its sister channel Virgin Media Two already hold carriage agreement to air certain ITV content within the Republic of Ireland, alternatively UTV is available within the Republic. ITV2 is available along with ITV3 and ITV4 within Switzerland, all three channels are available on Swisscom TV and UPC Cablecom . ITV4 is registered to broadcast within

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792-478: The championship and aim to put driver skills in the spotlight. Although the championship is primarily held across the UK, single races in Germany, France and Belgium had been included to the regular racing calendar in seasons 2011, 2014 and 2015. Notable drivers are 2015 Le Mans winner Nick Tandy , two-time Porsche Mobil 1 winner Richard Westbrook and Supercup race winner Damien Faulkner. The Championship continues to be

828-558: The channel will be made available on Freesat soon. On 8 November 2022 the HD version replaced the SD version on Freesat channel 117. In January 2023, As part of a EPG clean up for HD Channels, Virgin Media moved ITV4 HD from channel 176 to channel 118 to make the channel free to all Virgin Customers. In line with the corporate rebranding of ITV, ITV4 received a new look on 14 January 2013. The channel received

864-478: The cube look for ITV3 . An ITV 2005 interim results presentation revealed that an old style logo was designed for the channel but was never used on air. The channel initially broadcast early in the evenings, but had its hours extended to cover daytime programming in February 2008, following previous trials where CITV handed over to ITV4 early in the weekends, closing at 12.30pm instead of the usual 6pm handover. ITV4

900-567: The electronic programme guide software to remove the NTL logo and all mention of the NTL name. On 31 January 2007, NTL and Chorus began advertising jointly, although the adverts were simply the ongoing campaign from NTL with the Chorus logo added to them. On 4 June 2007 @ntlworld.ie e-mail addresses switched to @upcmail.ie . The new UPC Mediabox set top boxes (STBs) which contain a hardrive based digital video recording system are fully UPC branded (albeit with

936-444: The expiry of a carriage agreement between UPC and ITV. UPC Ireland claim that ITV is not in a position to renegotiate the deal because ITV had struck a deal with another channel provider to provide it with exclusive rights to air certain content from the channels. Conversely, UPC Ireland also claims to have been in discussions right up to the last moment in order to continue broadcasting the channels. ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 were restored to

972-592: The final approvals to acquire assets from broadband rival Broadworks, which was in liquidation. This would give it access to about 6,600 homes in west Dublin and Meath. The Competition Authority cleared the deal on 21 April 2010. On 3 July 2015 it was announced that UPC Ireland had bought the TV3 Group for €80 million from Doughty Hanson , the deal may also deliver a further €7million should TV3 meet certain performance targets. The deal will need regulatory approval by Competition and Consumer Protection Commission as well as

1008-528: The first cable network in Ireland to switch to digital, with the analogue signal (except for the Irish terrestrial channels) switched off. On 4 May 2010 UPC began a €3 million spend on rebranding, completing the change from Chorus:NTL to UPC Ireland. A high-profile media campaign – fronted by broadcaster Craig Doyle – was planned to run for 3 months. It also lit up a number of buildings in Dublin (including Busáras and Boland's Mill ), Galway and Cork. UPC had received

1044-689: The launch of ITV1 +1 taking up space on the EPG; the channel is still available on Freesat and Virgin. The channel was restored on 1 June 2012. A high-definition simulcast of ITV4, ITV4 HD , was launched on 15 November 2010 alongside the sister channel, ITV3 HD on Sky. The channel was initially available through Sky's pay subscription service in a non-exclusive deal, before being added to Virgin Media 's service on 14 March 2013. ITV4 HD's high definition content includes films, and sports events which currently include British Touring Car Championship , Tour de France , horse racing, snooker and darts (including

1080-402: The live quiz channel ITV Play . Some programming from Men & Motors was transferred to ITV4. ITV4 was the first channel to use the new on-screen look that was rolled out across the rest of ITV plc's channels on 16 January 2006. Red Bee Media designed the new logos and presentation for the entire corporation that saw the end of the yellow and blue squared look designed for ITV , ITV2 and

1116-489: The original UPC logo rather than the newer lowercase design) and come with a much enhanced EPG. These were rolled out on both the ex NTL and Chorus cable networks. From 2008, the old Pace STBs supplied by NTL Ireland (and originally designed for NTL UK) were replaced with new Pace STBs designed for UPC, also branded "UPC Mediabox" but without the hard drive/recording capabilities. In a Sunday Business Post article on 11 February 2007, UPC Ireland's marketing manager revealed that

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1152-433: The other championship categories, Rookies are able to win even more money from their respective class. Since introduced for the 2018 season. All drivers are competing in a flat-six , rear-engine 911 (Type 991.2) GT3 Cup Car, with 485bhp (361kW). . The current scoring system ITV4 ITV4 is a British free-to-air television channel which first aired on 1 November 2005. It is owned by ITV Digital Channels ,

1188-529: The rebrand was due to take place no later than May 2007. This deadline was missed. On 16 May 2007 UPC Netherlands introduced a new UPC logo, which was rolled out across UPC's European subsidiaries. From July 2007, all UPC advertising began bearing a composite logo reading "Chorus NTL – a UPC company". On 10 June 2007 UPC announced its takeover of one of the remaining small Irish operators, Clane Cable Systems. This gained UPC an extra 2000 customers. During late September and early October 2007, Chorus and NTL included

1224-488: The shareholding until Competition Authority approval was obtained. This occurred in December 2005 and UPC Ireland came into being on 12 December 2005. In 2006, UPC Ireland began to integrate the brands Chorus and NTL to form Chorus NTL. Branding wise, on 5 September 2006 NTL's website was changed to the same design as Chorus i.e., itself based on UPC Netherlands' website design at the time. 25 January 2007, NTL Ireland updated

1260-586: Was expected that ITV4 would replace the existing Men & Motors channel (which was replaced by ITV HD ), in the same way Granada Plus was rebranded into ITV3, until ITV plc stated that the two channels would run alongside each other, forcing the ITV News Channel on Freeview to timeshare with ITV4. ITV replaced the failing News Channel with CITV. Both channels were on Freeview until ITV plc took Men & Motors off Freeview (although it remained on other platforms for some time until April 2010) and replaced it with

1296-487: Was launched on UPC Ireland in Ireland on 4 January 2010, marking the first time the channel has been officially available in the country. The channel had already been (and remains) available to Irish viewers on free-to-air satellite for some time, but it has not been listed in the Sky electronic programme guide since its removal on 25 January 2006. On 1 April 2011, ITV4 was removed from UPC Ireland along with ITV2 and ITV3 due to

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