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- Internet TV is not just any Random Thought

Former sports journalists Eamon Carey and Daire Whelan, co-founders of Random Thoughts, stumbled into the world of internet and mobile TV and have no intentions of leaving.

“We set up originally as a traditional TV production company with a view of keeping half an eye on the digital space,” says Carey. “But within a few days we realised that the digital space was our future.”

Random Thoughts is the production company behind Dunphy’s Last Word on Football on 3’s mobile network and last year did a show with Brent Pope and George Hook for the Six Nations on O2’s network.

Carey says it’s all about pushing the boundaries of TV beyond the living room. The company won a €50,000 prize from the Korean Broadcasting Commission in the Content 360 Awards in Cannes.

Going forward it is focusing on internet TV opportunities and is in talks with YouTube about creating a branded IPTV channel in the tradition of the eponymous Temple Bar show Balcony TV.

“Independent production companies are carving out a new future and look to internet firms like YouTube, Joost and Babelgum as key to a future that allows them to bypass the traditional commissioning editors at the BBC and RTE,” Carey says.

By John Kennedy -

Thanks again to Denis. And if you've never seen Denis on BalconyTV. Here he Denis last Summer giving the BalconyTV weather.