Channel 5 (UK) programming the United Kingdom than in its home country of Australia. Channel 5 regularly screens "Home and Away" along with its fellow Australian soap, "Neighbours". Until 2010 late-night sports programming had been a feature of the channel since its original launch, especially focusing on live or short-delay coverage of major North American sports. Most notably, the channel covered Major League Baseball games, both regular season and playoffs since its first night on air. After the conclusion of "Family Affairs", Five's MLB baseball coverage was the longest and continuously run programme on the channel. Jonathan Gould is the host, with former Great
Soap opera (2010–2013) replaced the agri-soaps of the previous decades. In 1989, RTÉ decided to produce its first Dublin-based soap opera since the 1960s. "Fair City", which is set in the fictional city of Carrickstown, initially aired one night a week during the 1989-90 season, and similar to its rural soaps, much of the footage was filmed on location – in a suburb of Dublin City. In 1992, RTÉ made a major investment into the series by copying the houses used in the on-location shoots for an on-site set in RTÉ's Headquarters in Dublin 4. By the early 1990s, it was airing