[vicsireland] RTÉ to launch five national digital radio services

From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:42:50 -0000
    RTÉ to launch five national digital radio services
November 2nd, 2008 - 18:13 UTC by Andy Sennitt
Irish public broadcaster RTÉ's trials of digital radio services which began 
in March 2007 come to an end on Sunday, 30 November and the broadcaster 
intends to have full schedules available for five new services from Monday, 
1 December.

RTÉ Radio trialled a selection of services over the past twenty months on 
the RTÉ NL trial multiplex licence issued by ComReg. The services were 
evaluated in terms of technical performance, listener appeal and public 
value. On the basis of these measures and market research RTÉ Radio has 
decided to proceed with five of these services; three music services, a 
speech service and a children's only radio service.

The digital radio music services, sister stations to RTÉ 2fm, are RTÉ Pulse, 
RTÉ 2XM and RTÉ Chill. The speech service, a sister station to RTÉ Radio 1, 
is RTÉ Choice and the final station aimed at children aged 2 to 10 is RTÉ 
Junior.

JP Coakley, Head of Operations, RTÉ Radio says "Recent EBU and World DMB 
agreements on European-wide standards for digital radio sets mean that the 
industry as a whole is now moving together on digital radio. We are keen to 
make progress but given the present economic climate we have to be patient"

RTÉ's trial digital radio services are currently available to listen to 
online at rte.ie/radio throughout Ireland and to 44% of the population in 
the Greater Dublin and North East Coast area, Cork and Limerick cities on 
DAB digital radio sets available from retailers in those areas. When the 
schedules go live on Monday, 1 December RTÉ's five new digital radio 
services will continue to broadcast in those areas and online.

RTÉ has said it intends to roll-out DAB digital radio to 56% of the 
population over the coming three years. However the broadcaster has stated 
that it will not progress with this roll-out until there is a regulatory 
framework in place that will allow commercial broadcasters to move to 
digital radio. This is to ensure that the whole industry moves together for 
the benefit of the listener.

RTÉ Radio will be providing further information and details of its five new 
services over the coming weeks.

(Source: RTÉ Press Office)

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