{"id":295211,"date":"2026-02-21T13:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:11:10","slug":"a-century-of-television-irelands-society-defining-tv-moments-from-launch-of-rte-to-funding-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295211\/","title":{"rendered":"A century of television \u2013 Ireland\u2019s society-defining TV moments, from launch of RT\u00c9 to funding fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ireland has gone through so much since the earliest days in black and white\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RT\u00c9 has produced its fair share of memorable shows and moments over the years\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TV history copy.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">RT\u00c9 has produced its fair share of memorable shows and moments over the years<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This year marks the centen\u00adary of the first public demonstration of television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Scottish inventor John Logie Baird invited 50 scientists and a reporter to a London attic to observe his machine, the Televisor, transmit images from one room to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland has gone through so much since the earliest days in black and white RT\u00c9 has produced its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49781,162884,128232,156,26173,162885,162887,111,139,69,124087,162886,42351,151731,103072,11527,162889,437,162888],"class_list":{"0":"post-295211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-dana","9":"tag-darragh-mcmanus","10":"tag-eamon-de-valera","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-eurovision","13":"tag-fair-city","14":"tag-italia-90","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-pat-kenny","19":"tag-rose-of-tralee","20":"tag-rte","21":"tag-ryan-tubridy","22":"tag-tg4","23":"tag-the-late-late-show","24":"tag-toy-show-the-musical","25":"tag-tv","26":"tag-virgin-media-television"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}