[3] The launch was attended by Minister Eamon Ryan, Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources.

[4][non-primary source needed] The channel broadcasts on television as well as online services such as YouTube and Vimeo.

[3] Its own productions are produced under a Creative Commons license that allows non-profit use, subject to recognition of source.

[citation needed] In 2011 during the Post-2008 Irish economic downturn Dublin CTV opened up production facilities in disused shopfronts for unemployed locals and students to create media for digital broadcast.

[7] The channel airs features and shorts (both documentary and drama), cookery programs, adult literacy programmes, activist and college films, community programming, films by young/emerging film-makers and sports (with an emphasis on minority sports).