TV3 chief to offer job to Doyle as station launches autumn schedule

TV3’s director of programmes, Ben Frow, is taking Ireland’s much-loved newsreader Anne Doyle out to lunch next week to see if she wants to work with RTÉ’s rival network.

However, Mr Frow, who was speaking ahead of the launch of TV3’s new autumn schedule in Dublin yesterday, tried to play down his date with Ms Doyle, 60, who retired from RTÉ last year.

“There are very talented people out there and it would be remiss of me not to meet them and see if they might be interested in doing something on television,” he said.