RTÉ One
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| RTÉ One logo | |
| Launched | 31 December 1961 |
| Owned by | Radio Telefís Éireann |
| Audience share | 25.4% (March 2009, AGB Nielsen) |
| Country | Ireland |
| Formerly called | Telefís Éireann (1961-1966) RTÉ Television (1966-1978) RTÉ1 (1978-1995) |
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| Terrestrial | |
| Irish analogue | Normally tuned to 1 but also: 3 historical openings of NI and ROI channels, or 5 depending on preference |
| Irish digital | Mux 1 |
| Satellite | |
| SCTV Digital | channel 101 |
| Sky Digital | channel 101 (IRL) channel 161 (NI) |
| Cable | |
| UPC Ireland | channel 101 |
| Virgin Media (UK) | channel 875 (NI only) |
| IPTV over ADSL | |
| Magnet Entertainment | channel 101 |
| Smart Vision | ? |
RTÉ One (Irish: RTÉ a hAon) is Ireland's oldest and most popular television channel[1], operated by Irish state broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann. RTÉ One is almost universally available on the VHF and UHF bands on the island of Ireland (though VHF has mostly been phased out), and is available on the Sky Digital satellite service in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as cable and MMDS, including the Virgin Media digital cable service in Northern Ireland. The channel technically broadcasts 24 hours a day. The network's headquarters are in Donnybrook, Dublin.
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[edit] Programming
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RTÉ One broadcasts both Irish made programmes (consisting of News, Current Affairs, Lifestyle programming and Drama) together with imported and acquired programmes. The majority of Irish made programmes are developed for RTÉ ONE's prime-time schedule with daytime and late night TV made up of repeats and acquired programming. The channel's flagship programme is The Late Late Show, is broadcast on Fridays at 21:30 WET/IST. The channel carries most RTÉ News and Current Affairs programmes. During breaking news events, news specials may also be aired on the channel.
RTÉ One also airs certain television shows from America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and UK although the majority of imports are broadcast on RTÉ's sister station RTÉ Two. Most of RTÉ's home produced drama and reality shows are broadcast on RTÉ One and the station is seen as the flagship of the RTÉ network.
In 2007 the top five watched programmes on RTÉ ONE, according to RTÉ's 2007 Annual Report[2] are as follows: -
- The Late Late Toy Show 1,161,000
- Prime Time 941,000
- The Rose of Tralee 861,000
- Eurovision Song Contest 2007 780,000
- Killinaskully: The Last Round 772,000
[edit] News and current affairs
RTÉ News and Current Affairs provides all of RTÉ ONE's News and Current Affairs Programming.
RTÉ News and Current Affairs television programmes include:
News Programming
Current Affairs Programming
RTÉ News and Current Affairs coverage of all major political events such as General Elections, Budgets, Local and European Elections and Referendums. Since 2000 RTÉ has covered the US Presidential Elections live. It also covers major political stories from the Northern Irish Assembly, including elections.
[edit] Children's
Since 1988 most of RTÉ Children's programming is provided on RTÉ TWO under the name of The Den. The Den started out on RTÉ ONE in 1986 as Dempsey's Den and remained on RTÉ ONE until RTÉ branded RTÉ TWO as Network 2.
On Saturday Nights RTÉ ONE show a children's film at 6:30pm. They call this segment The Big Big Movie. Goodfellas Pizza sponsor The Big Big Movie.
[edit] Daytime
RTÉ developed Live@3 as their main Daytime strand in the 1980s. It first appeared in 1986 and was replace by PM Live in 1997, PM Live acted as a merger of RTÉ other Daytime TV show called 12 to 1 and Live@3. In 1999 PM Live was replaced by Open House. In 2003 RTÉ revamped their Daytime schedule with two new shows, The Afternoon Show and The Big Bite. In 2004 The Big Bite was replaced with Seoige and O'Shea.
[edit] On-air identity
Throughout the years, RTÉ One has gone through many changes to its on-air identity, mostly in tune with the changes to the RTÉ statutory logo. The average life of an RTÉ One ident is around three years, with minor modifications and changes along the way.
[edit] History
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The station began life as Telefís Éireann in 1961. It was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, upon the renaming of the Radio Éireann Authority to RTÉ, and became RTE1 upon the launch of RTÉ2 in 1978. Originally the station broadcast in black and white using the 405-line television system, but began 625-line PAL colour transmissions in 1961. The first Outside Broadcast made in colour for RTE Television was when Ireland hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1971. The UK national broadcaster BBC provided RTÉ with an OB Unit which could broadcast in colour for the event. In 1972, the first studios in RTE's Donnybrook headquarters were equipped for colour, and this was followed by the news studios in 1974, drama studios in 1975 and finally Studio 1 (the largest Studio, hosting shows such as The Late Late Show) in 1976.
RTÉ One was also the sole Irish TV channel until 1978, when RTÉ2 (also known for many years as Network 2) was created. Since 1998 RTÉ One also competes with TV3. RTÉ One today not only competes with the other Irish TV channels, but also with the UK TV networks and other satellite and cable channels that are widely available across Ireland through cable, MMDS and satellite subscription services.
Unlike many other national broadcasters, RTÉ One was late to begin broadcasting in the mornings, and 24 hour transmission obly began in the early 1990s. From 1961, RTÉ Television would only broadcast from 5:35 pm until around 11:30 pm during the Winter months.
In 1975 this changed slightly with transmission starting at around 3:30pm and concluding around midnight. In 1988 RTÉ One launched a schedule with a new news bulletin at 1:00pm. To this day RTÉ One still does not offer a "breakfast television" programme, content to let commercially run TV3 to broadcast Ireland AM since 1999. RTÉ One instead shows repeats of different home produced shows such as The Afternoon Show, and imports such as Are You Being Served?, Allo allo, Neighbours, Dallas etc. Euronews provides RTÉ One viewers with early morning news coverage, with RTÉ One's first news bulletin of the day airing at around 10:00am. However during the Olympics and special breaking news or election coverage, RTÉ One would provide a special bulletin in the morning.
[edit] Online content
From March 2007, content from RTÉ One (and its sister network RTÉ Two) has been available online on its website www.rte.ie. In May 2009 RTE launched RTE player which is an on demand service. On this service you can watch any programme that were broadcast on RTE Television, for up to a week until the next installment of a show is aired. Notable programmes available on the rte player are listed below:
- Fair City
- Eastenders
- The Late Late Show
- Tubridy Tonight
- Home and Away
- Greys Anatomy
- Desperate Housewives
[edit] RTÉ in High-definition (RTÉ HD)
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RTÉ HD is a forthcoming channel to be launched eventually (when budget permits) on the Sky+ HD service which currently covers the Republic of Ireland and the up-coming Digital terrestrial television service. The new HD network will be a simulcast of the RTÉ One, RTÉ Two and RTÉ Three (forthcoming) networks. The channel will mainly consist of programmes from the RTÉ One network and will, in the beginning, broadcast programmes such as sporting events and highly popular programmes which are already filmed in high definition such as RTÉ News, The Late Late Show and Tubridy Tonight. It is also believed that foreign imports already recorded in HD will also be bought in and broadcast simultaneously in HD.
[edit] RTÉ One Main Analogue Transmitters
- Main article: RTÉ Network Limited
| UHF | VHF | Location |
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| - | D | Mullaghanish |
| - | E | Maghera |
| - | E | Kippure |
| - | F | Mount Leinster |
| - | I | Truskmore |
| 23 | - | Holywell Hill |
| 29 | - | Three Rock Mountain |
| 40 | - | Cairn Hill |
| 52 | - | Clermont Carn |
| 53 | - | Spur Hill |
- Source: [1] (Accessed 18 October 2006)
[edit] Typical RTÉ One evening schedule
[edit] Monday to Sunday
Movies are in red; dramas are in green; reality shows are in yellow; game shows are in orange; news programming is in brown; Chat shows are in purple; Feature programming is in light green; Documentaries are in grey.
| 18:01 | 18:30 | 19:00 | 19:30 | 20:00 | 20:30 | 21:00 | 21:30 | 22:00 | 22:10 | 22:30 | 22:45 | 22:50 | 23:00 | 23:15 | |
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| Monday | RTÉ News: Six One | Nationwide | Scannal | EastEnders as BBC One | Trish's Paris Kitchen | RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock | Prime Time: Investigates | Questions and Answers | |||||||
| Tuesday | Ear to the Ground | EastEnders as BBC One | Fair City | The Restaurant / Heat | Prime Time | Arts Lives | The View | ||||||||
| Wednesday | Nationwide | Neven's Food From the Sun | Off the Rails / Not Enough Hours | The Midweek Movie | |||||||||||
| Thursday | Capital D | EastEnders as BBC One | Showhouse | Prime Time | Dragon's Den or The Panel | The Mentalist/ Brothers & Sisters | |||||||||
| Friday | Nationwide | Welcome to My World | EastEnders as BBC One | All Ireland Talent Show: Access All Areas | The Late Late Show | ||||||||||
| Saturday | RTÉ News: Six One | The Big Big Movie | Winning Streak | Tubridy Tonight | Law & Order | ||||||||||
| Sunday | The All Ireland Talent Show | No Frontiers | Fair City | The All Ireland Talent Show:Results | ER / The Clinic (TV Series) | Would You Believe | The Week in Politics | ||||||||
- During August, Christmas and on most Bank Holidays RTE News: SIX ONE will only broadcast from 18:01 to 18:30 on Weekdays, the rest of the year it is Broadcast for a full hour.
- The Angelus is broadcast at 18:00 each night
[edit] RTÉ One +1
RTÉ One +1 is a forthcoming one hour timeshift channel of RTÉ One. [3]
[edit] Source
- ”Irish Viewers to get a '6' Sense Soon.” (9 February 2006). The Irish Independent Business p10
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.rte.ie/about/pressreleases/2009/0109/television09012009.html
- ^ "RTÉ's Annual Report 2007: RTÉ Television: Page 10". RTÉ. 2008-06-18. http://www.rte.ie/about/pdfs/annual_report07_english.pdf.
- ^ "RTE aims to launch new channel". The Irish Post. 2008-05-18. http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2008/05/18/story32957.asp.
[edit] External links
- RTÉ One at RTÉ.ie
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