RTÉ Pulse

RTÉ Pulse

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Broadcast area	National - Ireland
Frequency	DAB: Mux 1 UPC Ireland: Channel 943 Online
Programming
Format	Electronic Dance Music
Ownership
Owner	Raidió Teilifís Éireann
History
First air date	March 2008
Links
Website	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 Jason Dee, Nikki Hayes, Will Kinsella, Paul Byrne, Stephen Daly, Brian Taffe, Orla Feeney, Al Redmond, and David Cronin. The service regularly carries live outside broadcasts, such as the 2008 Southern edition of PlanetLove. It regularly comes live from the Cafe Mambo studios in Ibiza.

The service uses RTE facilities from all around the country and overseas. There are regular weekly live shows from the Cork, Limerick, Athlone, Belfast and Castlebar studios. The service regularly broadcasts live from the RTE or BBC studios in London.

On Wednesday nights programming is dedicated to listeners from the LGBT community, with three different shows presented by
Scott De Buitléir, Sinéad Houlihan and Gordon Hickey (occasionally co-hosted by Andy James).

The schedule is designed to be stranded in its approach to fulfilling its remit of representing all genres of dance music. Monday evenings for example is House Music, Tuesdays Trance and harder edge and so forth.

Sunday's scheduling draws very much from the eclectic styles of the genre.

External links

• RTE Pulse website
• Irish Times