RTÉ News
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RTÉ News and Current Affairs is a major division of Radio Telefís Éireann responsible for news programming on television, radio and online within the Republic of Ireland.
Contents |
[edit] Introduction
RTÉ News and Current Affairs provides the most comprehensive 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.
RTÉ News faces stiff competition from within Ireland and abroad. Within Ireland TV3 provides limited competition; however, RTÉ News remains vastly more popular. As Ireland is an English-speaking nation, the UK's BBC News, ITN and Sky News pose greater threats to RTÉ.
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.
[edit] Television News and Current Affairs
RTÉ News and Current Affairs is responsible for all the news bulletins on RTÉ One and RTÉ Two. This division also provides news updates on RTÉ's teletext service called Aertel.
RTÉ News and Current Affairs television programmes include:
- RTÉ News: One O'Clock
- RTÉ News: Six One
- RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock
- RTÉ News on Two
- Nuacht RTÉ
- Nuacht TG4
- Nationwide
- Prime Time
- Questions and Answers
- The Week in Politics
- Seachtain - The Week
- Oireachtas Report
"Nuacht RTÉ" is the division of RTÉ News and Current Affairs which produces Nuacht RTÉ, Nuacht TG4, and Cinnlínte Nuachta. The same team supplies news reports on both RTÉ One and TG4, however, while programmes on RTÉ One have a similar look and feel to English language services, programmes on TG4 do not carry RTÉ News branding.
[edit] Radio News and Current Affairs
RTÉ News programming is transmitted via RTÉ radio (RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ Lyric FM & RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta).
RTÉ News radio programmes include:
- Morning Ireland
- RTÉ News: One O'Clock (on RTÉ Radio 1)
- Five Seven Live
- Saturday View
- This Week
- Newsbeat (on RTÉ 2fm)
Regular news reports are broadcast on the hour on RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ 2fm, and on the half-hour on RTÉ Lyric FM.
[edit] Online News and Current Affairs
RTÉ News content is also available worldwide on the internet. Virtually all of RTÉ's radio and television news programming 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.
[edit] List of selected current and former RTÉ News readers and reporters
[edit] Newsreaders
- Bryan Dobson - Newsreader
- Anne Doyle - Newsreader
- Eileen Dunne - Newsreader
- Brian Jennings - Newsreader
- John Finnerty - Newsreader
- Ken Hammond - Newsreader
- Aengus Mac Grianna - Newsreader
- Anthony Murnane - Newsreader
- Sharon Ní Bheoláin - Newsreader
- Siún Nic Gearailt - Newsreader
- Úna O'Hagan - Newsreader
- Vivienne Traynor - Newsreader
- Eileen Whelan - Newsreader
[edit] Editors
- David Davin-Power - Political Editor
- Tommie Gorman - Northern Ireland Editor
- George Lee - Economics Editor
- Brian O'Connell - London Editor
- Tony O'Donoghue - Sports Editor
- Paschal Sheehy - Southern Editor
- Seán Whelan - Europe Editor
- Mary Wilson - Legal Affairs Editor
[edit] Correspondents
- Charlie Bird - Chief News Correspondent
- Fergal Bowers - Health Correspondent
- Robert Shortt - Washington Correspondent
- Cathy Halloran - Midwest Correspondent
- Tony Connelly - Europe Correspondent
- Barry Cummins - RTÉ Correspondent
- Paul Cunningham - RTÉ Correspondent
- Jim Fahy - Western Correspondent
- Michael Fisher - RTÉ Correspondent
- Will Goodbody - RTÉ Correspondent
- Eamon Horan - Sports Correspondent
- Robbie Irwin - Sports Correspondent
- Gavin Jennings - RTE Radio Presenter and Reporter
- John Kilraine - RTÉ Correspondent
- Samantha Libreri - RTÉ Correspondent
- Joe Little - Religious Affairs Correspondent
- David McCullough - Political Correspondent
- Ingrid Miley - Industry & Employment Correspondent
- Colm Murray - Sports Correspondent
- Joe O'Brien - Agriculture & Food Correspondent
- Paul Reynolds - Crime Correspondent
- Joe Stack - Sports Correspondent
- Damien Tiernan - South Eastern Correspondent
[edit] Former newsreaders
- Charles Mitchel - former newsreader
- Maurice O'Doherty - former newsreader
- Eammon Lawlor - former newsreader
- Andy O'Mahony - former newsreader
- Seán Duignan - former newsreader
- Mary Kennedy - former newsreader
- Michael Murphy - former newsreader
- Vere Wynne-Jones - former Newsreader
[edit] External links
- RTÉ News and Current Affairs website
- RTÉ News website
- RTÉ News Radio programming — audio archive
- RTÉ News TV programming — video archive
- RTÉ Radio website
