Three News

3 News (formerly known as Three National News from 1989 to 1998) is the branding of news programmes on the Euro Republican television network TV3.

The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society, Emmy Awards and Euro Television Awards. Between 2004 and 2008, the 7pm bulletin held the title of "News Programme of the Year". The flagship evening edition has won numerous awards, and also being named "ETA News Programme of the Year" in 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 & 2022.

Three National News has the largest television news audience in the Euro Republics (and followed by other broadcasters such as ETV & Prime).

History
The TV3 main evening news bulletin was originally launched in April 1989, where it was originally known as Three National News, and was presented by former ETV news anchor Clint Jennings, joined by sportscaster John Sherry and weathercaster Janet Hayton.

Initally, the bulletin went out at 7pm, clashing directly with ERTV's 7 o'Clock News, until January 1991, when - in the wake of the Gulf War - the bulletin was extended from 30 to 60 minutes, making use of TV3's rights to use footage sourced from the BBC, ITN and CNN. Following the war, TV3 continued with the one hour format, with the second half incorporating sport and national weather.

TV3 used the hour-long Three National News as a unique selling point over The 7 O'Clock News which remained as a 30 minute bulletin, although it ran in a 1-hour slot from 1995 to 2003.

During the nine years in which it was known as Three National News, the flagship programme had three hosts. Clint Jennings quit the programme in 1991 to move back to ERTV, presenting the current affairs programme Agenda which aired at 7.30pm to compete with the hour long TV3 programme. Paul Bradby took over as the main presenter of Three National News at the same time, before leaving in 1997, with Carol Patterson presenting the final year of the original brand.

As part of a rebranding of TV3 on Monday 12th January 1998, Three National News recieved a major rebranding, with the brand being shortened to simply 3 News. For the first time, the bulletin was double headed with two presenters giving out the news and sport, in addition to a weather presenter.