| RTÉ Radio |
RTÉ Radio is a department of Irish national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Radio broadcasts four analogue channels and five digital channels.
The first voice broadcast of 2RN, the original radio callsign for RTÉ Radio 1, took place on 14 November 1925 when Seamus Clandillon, the 2RN station director said, 'Seo Raidió 2RN, Baile Átha Cliath ag tástáil', Irish for 'This is Radio 2RN, Dublin calling'. Regular Irish radio-broadcasting began on 1 January 1926. Unfortunately, most Irish people could not receive 2RN's (1.5 kilowatt) signal.
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When faced with numerous complaints from Cork regarding the writers' inability to tune to the signal, Clandillon remarked in The Irish Radio Review, a magazine dedicated to the service, that they did not know how to operate their sets. 6CK was established in Cork in 1927; however 6CK was mostly a relay of 2RN.
Unlike Irish televison, Irish radio is available to listeners in the UK. RTÉ's stations are carried on the Sky and Freesat satellite platforms. They are all free-to-air and can be received on any digital satellite receiver. |
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| Listening to RTÉ Radio Online |
RTÉ Radio is available to listen to online using Windows Media Player or Real Player.
When you launch the Media Player on the RTÉ Radio site(www.rte.ie/radio), there is an option to listen with either Windows Media Player or Real Player.
If you are using Windows, Windows Media Player is already preinstalled on your computer.
If you wish to use Real Player to listen to the live stream you will need a piece of software called the Real Player.
At the moment, programmes can only be listened back to using Real Player. |
| Real Audio and Real Video Streams |
The free version of the RealOne Player is quite sufficient to play audio and video. If you don't already have this software, you can download it from the RealNetworks site.
Once you have downloaded the player, click on the file to set up the software on your computer. The setup should only take a minute or two.
The RealOne Player is available for PC and Macintosh. Along with the software, your computer will need to have certain minimum specifications in order to play the audio & video successfully.
If you are using the net at work, you may be on a corporate network or behind a firewall. In this case you should contact your system administrator to check whether RealAudio streaming is permitted by your system. |
| SMIL Files |
RTE Radio uses the .SMIL format for live streaming and playback. SMIL is supported by the RealOne media player, among others.
To get RealOne to automatically play .SMIL files: open the player go to Tools, then Preferences.
A window should open up with a menu system on the left hand side. Select Content, Media Types and a list of file types will appear. Press the 'Select All' button and then OK. After this, RealOne Player will be your default player for .SMIL files.
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| Website: www.rte.ie/radio/ |
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| RTÉ Radio 1 |
RTÉ Radio 1 (Irish: RTÉ Raidió 1) is the principal radio channel of Irish public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and is the direct descendant of Dublin radio station 2RN, which began broadcasting on a regular basis on 1 January 1926. The station is a rare modern example of a mixed radio network, broadcasting a mixture of music and speech programming.
Radio 1 broadcasts a mixture of news, current affairs, features, arts coverage, drama, sport, music (from popular music favourites through country while Sunday Sport is hosted by Con Murphy and Jacqui Hurley (Hurley becoming the first female presenter of Sunday Sport).
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and traditional to world music and jazz), and general entertainment. Major weekday programmes include:
Morning Ireland – the station's flagship news programme, on air from 7.00 to 9.00.
John Murray Talk Based Entertainment on air from 09.00 to 10.00
Today with Pat Kenny – a lively current affairs magazine, broadcast between 10.00 and 12.00.
The News at One – a round-up of all Irish news and sports, from 13:00 to 13:45
Liveline with Joe Duffy – phone-in discussion from 13.45 until 15.00.
Drivetime – rolling news and talk (sport, popular culture, music and arts) between 17.00 and 20.00. |
| Its sports coverage includes Sport at Seven with Darragh Moloney Monday to Friday 19.00 to 19.30, Friday Sportsnight ended on the schedule in early 2009 due to financial reasons, while changes where introduced to Saturday & Sunday Sport in February 2009. Saturday Sport is now presented by John Kenny and Marty Morrisey from 14.00 to 18.00, while Sunday Sport is hosted by Con Murphy and Jacqui Hurley (Hurley becoming the first female presenter of Sunday Sport). |
| Reception |
RTÉ Radio 1 is available in Ireland on 88-90FM and 252 kHz LW. The LW signal can also be received across the United Kingdom and parts of Western Europe. The FM service is also available online and from the Astra 2D satellite at 28° East transponder 43 (10.744 GHz horizontal, symbol rate 22000, FEC 5/6, service id 9611).
Listeners can also hear a selection of RTÉ Radio 1 programmes on the WRN English Service for Europe and WRN English Service for North America. The VHF service of RTÉ Radio 1 is also available on the Sky and Freesat satellite platforms in the UK.
The LW version of the station differs from that on VHF, with significant additional sports coverage and religious programming.
DAB broadcasts of the station began in the east of the country (on the Clermont Carn and Three Rock Mountain high power transmitters via the RTÉ DAB Multiplex) on 1 January 2006.
RTÉ Radio 1 has been carried on shortwave in DRM during specific events, including the All Ireland finals.
The station's tuning signal since 1936 has been the air O'Donnell Abú, although since the advent of 24-hour broadcasting in 1997, the tune has been played just once a day, as a prelude to the start of the day's live broadcasting at 05:30 each morning (between 02:00 and 05:30, apart from the hourly news bulletins, Radio 1's output is made up of selected repeats from earlier programmes). |
| Website: www.rte.ie/radio1 |
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| RTÉ 2fm |
RTÉ 2fm, or 2FM as it is commonly referred to, is RTÉ's second national radio station. It broadcasts popular music programming aimed at a young audience.
RTÉ Radio 2, as it was originally known, began broadcasting on May 31, 1979. "Like Clockwork" by the Boomtown Rats was the first song on air, played by Larry Gogan. It was developed as a response by RTÉ to the pirate radio craze sweeping Dublin and the country. Its main inspiration in format was BBC Radio 1. |
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Its original slogan was "Radio 2 Comin'atcha" and as well as broadcasting popular music, it carried a number of other musical strands as well as news and current affairs.
Its original broadcast frequencies were 612 kHz MW (until 2004) and later, 90-92 MHz FM. Original DJs included Larry Gogan, who moved over from RTÉ Radio 1, Mark Cagney, Michael McNamara, Declan Meehan, Vincent Hanley, Ronan Collins, Gerry Ryan and Dave Fanning.An all-music, mostly rock, sister station of 2FM, "RTÉ 2XM", operates on the RTÉ DAB Multiplex. |
| Website: www.rte.ie/2fm |
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| RTÉ Lyric fm |
RTÉ lyric fm, part of Radio Telefís Éireann, it plays mainly classical and jazz music. The station, which is based in Limerick, was launched in 1999 and is available on FM in Ireland (96-99 FM), and on digital satellite and is listed on the Sky Digital EPG in the UK.
RTÉ lyric fm developed from FM3 Classical Music, which began broadcasting in the early 1980s. FM3 broadcast classical music on the Radio na Gaeltachta network at breakfast time, lunchtime and in the evenings.
The station was rarely marketed, except via promotions on RTÉ Radio 1, and had low listenership ratings. It was probably best known for occasionally simulcasting the stereo sound track of movies being shown on the RTÉ television channels prior to RTÉ's deployment of NICAM digital stereo. |
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| As Radio na Gaeltachta Expanded broadcast hours FM3's service hours changed to 19:30 till 01:00. Eventually it stayed on air until breakfast time when RnaG came back on. In 1999, RTÉ put in place an additional national FM transmitter network, and it was decided to separate FM3 from Radio na Gaeltachta, and expand its remit to include other types of minority music. This was partly on the model of Classic FM in the UK. The resulting station was Lyric FM (since rebranded to: RTÉ lyric fm), launched in May 1999. It also moved from Dublin to Limerick as part of a policy of regionalisation. |
| Website: www.rte.ie/lyricfm |
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| RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta |
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta's mandate is to provide a national Irish language radio service as part of RTÉ's public broadcasting service. The station was first established to provide a comprehensive radio service for the people of the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region) and for Irish speakers nationwide and began broadcasting at 3pm on Easter Sunday, 2 April 1972.
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2002. During the early years, broadcasting was restricted to a couple of hours a day and that limited service could only be received in Gaeltacht areas. |
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| Transmission facilities and programming were gradually developed and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta is now available worldwide on the web. Since 1st October 2001, the station broadcasts 24 hours a day, with a wide range of news and current affairs, magazine programmes, music, sport, discussion and entertainment. RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta's livestream was launched in May 2000. Since then the station has been getting feedback on a regular basis from listeners in North America, Australia, UK, Europe, Moscow and Estonia. Since Tuesday, April 23rd 2003, all four RTÉ radio services are carried live on the Sky Digital Platform and on Freesat. |
| Website: www.rte.ie/rnag |
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| RTÉ 2XM |
RTÉ 2XM is a digital radio station of the Irish public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Initially the broadcaster placed the station on the digital terrestrial television trial service in late October 2007. Along with 5 other new digital stations, RTÉ Choice was launched on 1 December 2008. The station plays a broad range of music from rock, indie, metal, electronica, alternative and nu metal and also selection of live music with a particular focus on music content from festivals across Europe. It was the first RTÉ digital radio station to have carried live content, with music from the Oxegen festival during July 2007 and the Electric Picnic and PlanetLove Summer Session festivals during September 2007. This continued in 2008 with the PlanetLove Winter Session in February. The station is available on Saorview Ireland's free to air DTT service.
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| Live live: www.rte.ie/digitalradio/twoxm/ |
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| RTÉ Chill |
| RTÉ Chill is a digital radio station operated by RTÉ. It time shares with RTÉ Junior, beginning at 21:00 and closing at 7:00[1]. It broadcasts mostly chillout and ambient music as well as other low-tempo genres. An RTÉ Chill play list generally includes cutting edge artists such as Leftfield, The Orb, Sigur Rós and Juanita Molina. |
| Listen live: www.rte.ie/digitalradio/chill/ |
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| RTÉ Choice |
| RTÉ Choice is a public Irish digital radio station specifically for talk-radio. Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ, placed the station on the DTT trial service in late October 2007. Along with 5 other new digital stations, RTÉ Choice was launched on 1st December 2008. It plays comedy shows, documentaries, vintage shows, music and international programming sourced either from RTÉ's own broadcasts or via the World Radio Network from providers such as BBC World Service, National Public Radio and Radio Netherlands Worldwide. |
| Listen live: www.rte.ie/digitalradio/choice/ |
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| RTÉ Gold |
RTÉ Gold is an Irish radio station broadcasting on DAB. It can also be accessed on the internet via the RTÉ website. The station plays classic hits from top-selling artists spanning the decades from the 1950s to the 1980s. A particular feature of the current scheduling on RTÉ Gold is the inclusion, next to hits, of album tracks not normally available in a competitive classic hits format.
Although essentially a playlist service, it does produce one presenter-led programme called Through The Looking Glass. |
| Listen live: www.rte.ie/digitalradio/gold/ |
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| RTÉ Junior |
| RTÉ Junior is an Irish radio station on DAB and Online, as part of RTÉ's digital radio lineup. It plays children’s music, and is Ireland's first children's radio station. It broadcasts from 07:00 to 21:00, and time-shares its DAB slot with RTÉ Chill. RTÉ Junior's offers children music, stories and poetry through its programmes such as Pop Pop with Louise Foxe, Hokey Pokey and Put On Your Party. |
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| RTÉ Pulse |
RTÉ Pulse is an electronic dance music station from RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. It broadcasts on the RTÉ DAB Multiplex in Ireland online worldwide and on the Irish Cable system UPC/NTL channel 943. It plays a varied mix of dance music. It started in April 2008, but had an official launch alongside its sister services on Dec 1st 2008.
Originally started as a jukebox service, with no presenters; it now carries live and pre-recorded shows from a number - currently 31 - of Irish and international DJs, including Will Kinsella, Djamel, Ronan Devitt, Paul Byrne, Brian Taffe, Orla Feeney, Al Redmond, and David Cronin. The service also occasionally carries live outside broadcasts, such as the 2008 Southern edition of PlanetLove.
On Wednesday nights programming is dedicated to listeners from the LGBT community, with three different shows presented by
Scott De Buitléir , Nick Randell and Gordon Hickey. |
| Website: www.rte.ie/digitalradio/pulse/ |
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| RTÉ Radio 1 Extra |
| RTÉ Radio 1 Extra is an Irish radio station broadcasting RTÉ Radio 1[1]. It plays sports[2], educational and religious opt-outs at certain times (and the RTÉ Radio 1 main schedule the rest of the time). The station is available on for former Atlantic 252 frequency of longwave 252 (AM and DRM tests), Astra 2, Hot Bird and DAB. |
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