RTÉ News and Current Affairs
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| Type | Independent Business Division (IBD) of RTÉ |
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| Industry | Media |
| Headquarters | RTÉ Television Centre, Donnybrook Dublin 4, Ireland |
| Area served | Specific services for Ireland including Northern Ireland |
| Key people | Ed Mulhall (Managing Director)[1] |
| Services | Radio and television broadcasts |
| Owner(s) | RTÉ |
| Website | RTÉ News |
RTÉ News and Current Affairs (Irish: Nuacht agus Cúrsaí Reatha RTÉ), is a major division of Raidió Teilifís Éireann responsible for news programming on television, radio and online within the Republic of Ireland. It is, by far, the largest and most popular news source in Ireland - with 77% of the Irish public regarding it as their main source of both Irish and international news.[2] It broadcasts in English, Irish and Irish Sign Language.
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[edit] History
[edit] Early history
On January 1, 1926, 2RN started broadcasting. It was Ireland's first radio station. On May 24, 1926, there was the first advertised news bulletin on 2RN. Then on February 26, 1927, the first ever daily news report was broadcast on the station.[3]
During the Second World War, referred to in Ireland as The Emergency, because of the Emergency Powers Act 1939, media censorship of radio broadcasts effected news bulletins. Before all news bulletins were broadcast, the scripts of the bulletins were read over the phone to Head of the Government Information Bureau, Frank Gallagher. Censorship brought in under the Act was lifted on May 11, 1945.[4]
[edit] 1960s
On 31 December 1961 Ireland's first national television station, Telefís Éireann, was officially launched. A new Television Complex was built at Donnybrook in Dublin and the news service was the first to move in. On 1 January 1962 Charles Mitchel read the first television news bulletin at 6:01pm. Andy O'Mahony was the station's other chief newsreader in the early days of the new service. The new studios were still being completed, so construction work was heard during news bulletins.[5] Later on Telefís Éireann's first full day of broadcasting Broadsheet made its debut. This programme provided a more detailed analysis of topical matters and current affairs. There was a mixture of incisive and light-hearted items, unscripted studio interviews and filmed reports. Presented by John O'Donoghue, Brian Cleeve and Brian Farrell, some of these men would continue broadcasting with the station until the new century. Telefís Éireann's first full day also saw the first broadcast of the Nine O'Clock News, a half-hour bulletin including news, newsview, weather and sports results.
Broadsheet was broadcast for the last time in 1964. It was replaced by Frank Hall's Newsbeat, a news and current affairs programme that focused more on the light-hearted stories from around the country.
In 1966 Maurice O'Doherty joined the newsroom as newsreader. Later that same year the station's new flagship news programme was broadcast for the first time. Seven Days had a production team with people such as Eoghan Harris, Brian Cleeve, Brian Farrell and John O'Donoghue. In 1967 the programme merged with another, Division, and became 7 days.[6]
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When Radio Éireann and Telefís Éireann merged, RTÉ News was expanded, providing coverage to new stations RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and RTÉ Radio 2.[7]
In the early 1980s, in the space of two years, there were three general elections. This demanded a larger schedule of current affairs. New programmes Morning Ireland and Today Tonight were launched.[8]
In 1991, RTE News appointed its first legal affairs correspondent, Kieron Wood.[9] Also in the 1990s, the first Washington DC correspondent Mark Little was appointed, and Teilifís na Gaeilge, RTÉ lyric fm and RTÉ.ie were established.[10]
[edit] RTÉ News and Current Affairs
As a major division Ireland's National Broadcaster, RTÉ News and Current Affairs provides a range of national and international news and current affairs programming in Ireland. The station is also a source of definitive commentary on current affairs. RTÉ News is based at the RTÉ Television Complex in Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland. However, the station also operates regional centres across Ireland and the world.[11]
RTÉ News faces competition from within Ireland and abroad. For local news TV3 News provides competition in the television sector; as do Independent Network News, Newstalk, Today FM and 4fm in the radio sector. As Ireland is a predominantly English-speaking nation, international news channels (CNBC Europe, CNN International, EuroNews, France 24, BBC News, Sky News, etc.) compete with RTÉ with regards television news coverage of international events. Despite this competition however, RTÉ News remains the most popular source of news in Ireland.
In September 2003 "RTÉ News" was merged with "RTÉ Current Affairs" to form "RTÉ News and Current Affairs". RTÉ News continues as the brand on regular TV and radio news programming. Also in September 2003, all RTÉ news reports in English on all networks were rebranded to RTÉ News, ending the separate branding of News 2 and 2FM News.[12]
RTÉ News and Current Affairs produces over 1000 hours of television programming and 2,000 hours of radio programming a year.[2]
In December 2008, RTÉ News moved out of their usual Studio Three[13] in RTÉ Studios in Donnybrook, Dublin and moved into a temporary studio, while work was carried out Studio Three for the relaunch. The new look was unveiled at the One O'Clock news programme on Monday 9 February 2009.[14]
In March 2009, RTÉ was involved in controversy over a report about the placing of naked paintings of Taoiseach Brian Cowen in two Dublin Art Galleries. Initially, the station carried a television news report that displayed the pictures and treated the topic in a humorous light. However, after complaints from within the governing Fianna Fáil party, the station aired an apology to the Taoiseach.[15]
Due to RTÉ cutbacks, instead of using satellite, reporters on foreign assignments were asked to send reports by internet link. RTÉ's Beijing bureau was closed in June 2009.[16]
[edit] Programming
RTÉ News and Current Affairs is responsible for all the news bulletins on RTÉ One, RTÉ Two, TG4, RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ lyric fm, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, and RTÉ Europe. The division also provides written news updates on RTÉ's teletext service, Aertel, RTÉ Mobile and RTÉ.ie.[17]
[edit] Television
RTÉ News and Current Affairs television programmes include: English-language
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Irish-language
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Irish Sign Language
- RTÉ News with Signing
The department also broadcasts numerous special programmes such as election coverage and breaking news bulletins.
The current set of TV News programmes began in 1988, as RTÉ re-aligned their programmes. Seán Duignan and Eileen Dunne were the first presenters of Six-One, which began in October 1988[21]
[edit] Radio
RTÉ News and Current Affairs radio programmes include: English-language
- Morning Ireland
- RTÉ News at One
- Drivetime
- World Report
- This Week
- News bulletins on the hour on RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ 2fm.
- News bulletins on the half hour on RTÉ lyric fm.
Irish-language
- Adhmhaidin
- Nuacht a hAon
- Nuacht a Sé
- Regular Irish-language news bulletins on RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ lyric fm and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.
[edit] Online
RTÉ News content is also available worldwide on the internet. In addition to written content, virtually all of RTÉ's radio and television news programming since 1998 is subsequently made available in the form of RealPlayer audio and video clips which can be streamed, also, live news programming can be received live via streaming media in both Real Player and Windows Media Player formats. All television news content is available on the Ireland-only RTÉ player for 21 days.[22]
[edit] RTÉ News Now
See RTÉ News Now for further details.
Since June 12, 2008, RTÉ News is served by RTÉ News Now. The channel airs commercial free 24 hours a day with the latest live news. The station was initially made available on mobile phones and online at rte.ie/news. The channel broadcast in the Irish, English and ISL languages. The channel is also available on Saorview, mobile phone service providers such as O2 Ireland, Vodafone Ireland and Android. The channel also provides a free service to users of iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The channel will become more widely available upon the official launch of Saorview in May 2011. The channel is also available in on train services within Dublin city and surrounding regions under a special agreement between Irish Rail, Transvision and RTÉ.[23] Previously, Sky News provided such a service.
[edit] Bureaux
RTÉ have studios and offices in the following locations:[11]
Regional
- Athlone
- Baile na nGall
- Belfast
- Castlebar
- Cork
- Derry
- Dublin
- Dundalk
- Galway
- Letterkenny
- Limerick
- Sligo
- Waterford
International
[edit] The team
| Newsreaders | Sportsreaders | |
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| Bryan Dobson | Eileen Whelan | |
| Eileen Dunne | Brian Jennings | Éamon Horan |
| Anthony Murnane | Susan Jackson | Joe Stack |
| Sharon Ní Bheoláin | Niall Carroll | Evanne Ní Chuilinn |
| John Finnerty | Siún Nic Gearailt | Paul O'Flynn |
| Aengus Mac Grianna | Michael Murphy | Hugh Cahill |
| Úna O'Hagan | Flor McCarthy | Marty Morrissey |
| Anne Cassin | Kate Egan | Clare McNamara |
| Gareth O'Connor | Susan Byrne | Justin Treacy |
| Clodagh Walsh | Christopher McKevitt | Jacqui Hurley |
[edit] Reporters
[edit] Regional
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North-East
North-West
South
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Dublin
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Midlands
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[edit] General
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[edit] International
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[edit] Specialist Correspondents
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Politics
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Industry and Employment
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[edit] Former newsreaders
[edit] References
- ^ RTÉ News. 2007-01-30. http://www.rte.ie/about/mulhalle.html.
- ^ a b RTÉ News and Current Affairs
- ^ "History of Irish Public Service Broadcasting - Timeline". RTÉ Libraries and Archives. 2006-04-18. http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_timeline.html. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ "Radio Éireann during the Emergency: 1939-45". History of RTÉ (RTÉ). 2006-04-18. http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_1940s.html. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ^ "MOVE TO MONTROSE: 10 DECEMBER 1961". RTÉ Libraries and Archives. 2006-04-18. http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_1960s.html. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ ""SEVEN DAYS" BEGINS". RTÉ Libraries and Archives. 2006-04-18. http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_1960s.html. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ "RTÉ Archives: 1970s". RTÉ Libraries and Archives. 2006-04-18. http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_1970s.html. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ "RTÉ Archives: 1980s". RTÉ Libraries and Archives. 2006-04-18. http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_1980s.html. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ "RTE Libraries and Archives". RTE. https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/result.html?_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXACTION_=query&_IXFIRST_=3&_IXSR_=bGBWSQ_e8hC&_IXSS_=_IXMAXHITS_%3d10%26_IXFPFX_%3dtemplates%252ft%26_IXFIRST_%3d1%26%252asform%3d%252fweb%252fsearch_forms%252fadvanced%26%2524%253dsi%3dtext%26_IXACTION_%3dquery%26_IXSESSION_%3dFXEM8lwcLKQ%26_IXINITSR_%3dy%26%2524%253dsort%3dsort%2bdescending%2bsortexpr%2bimage_sort%26search%3dsearch%26%252aiexe%2bSECURITY_filter%3d%252e%26%2524%253ds%3dkieron%2bwood%26text_search_context%3dkieron%2bwood%26%253cphoto_taken_date_earliest%3d&_IXSPFX_=templates%2ft&_IXFPFX_=templates%2ft. Retrieved 2011-233-03.
- ^ "RTÉ Archives: 1990". RTÉ Libraries and Archives. 2006-04-18. http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_1990s.html. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ a b "RTÉ Studios". RTÉ. 2007-01-30. http://www.rte.ie/about/studios.html. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ "RTÉ Press Releases 2003: New Look for RTÉ News". RTÉ. 1 September 2002. http://www.rte.ie/about/pressreleases/01092003.html. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ "RTE News comes from Studio 3, one of the smaller production facilities in Donnybrook.". Alan Farquharson. http://indigo.ie/~alanf/rtenews.html. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ "Here is the new-look news". Irish Independent. February 10, 2009. http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/here-is-the-newlook-news-1634056.html?start=1. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ Naked taoiseach paintings removed
- ^ "The drama heats up at Montrose" (in English). The Irish Times. June 13, 2009. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0613/1224248747528.html. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ "RTÉ News". RTÉ News. http://www.rte.ie/news/index.html. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ "RTÉ’s New Political Series ‘The Frontline’ Begins". IFTN. 21 September 2009. http://www.iftn.ie/broadcast/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4282522&tpl=archnews&force=1. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
- ^ Orourke, Sean (2009-05-17). "My week: Sean O'Rourke". London: The Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6301544.ece. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
- ^ "Nuacht TG4" (in English/Irish). TG4. http://www.tg4.ie/bearla/stud/nuac/nuac.asp. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ Duignan, Seán (1 February 2012). "Politically incorrect". RTÉ Publishing. http://www.rte.ie/tv50/essays/seanduignan.html. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ "RTÉ Press Release: RTÉ player". RTÉ. 21/April/2009. http://www.rte.ie/about/pressreleases/2009/0421/rteplayer21042009.html. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ "RTÉ News Now links up with Transvision". RTÉ News. 2010-05-19. http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0519/dooh.html.
- ^ "RTÉ announce appointments". The Irish Times. 8 August 2001. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0824/01082400033.html. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
- ^ "Tony Connelly". New Island Books. http://www.newisland.ie/node/475. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
- ^ "One News: 17 June 2010". RTÉ News and Current Affairs. 17 June 2010. http://www.rte.ie/news/1news/. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
- ^ "Appointment of New RTÉ Economics Correspondent". RTÉ Press Centre. 21 October 2009. http://www.rte.ie/about/pressreleases/2009/1021/economicscorrespondent211009.html. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
- ^ Fiona McCann (January 12, 2009). "Wardrobes for radio". The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/0112/1224262111623.html. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
- ^ "National Media Awards: Winners". http://www.nationalmediaawards.ie/winners.html. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ a b Daniel McConnell (27 April 2008). "US snub for RTÉ political combo". Irish Independent. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/us-snub-for-rte-political-combo-1360467.html. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
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