Radio 1 shows no longer coming from the RTE radio building

ford fiesta

In the last 2 years or so, there has been a move for talk based Radio 1 shows to move from their studios in the Donnybrook radio centre to studios over in the RTE TV building and some of these shows are visually broadcast on line or on RTE News Now channel on TV, making these shows look like a TV programme rather than a radio programme.

The mon to fri daily shows that do not come from the TV building are Rising Time, Louise duffy, Ray D'Arcy, John Creedon and Late Date.

Some weekend shows are also broadcast from the TV building (This week, Brendan O'Connor).

So after 50 years, basically nearly the majority of Radio 1s output has not come from the radio centre.

Other stations such as 2FM and Digital stations are fully based in the radio centre. Lyric FM and R Na G in Limerick and Casla with some shows broadcast from the radio centre in Dublin, such as Marty Whelan on Lyric.

GSF

when Al Dunne was covering Gold breakfast he said that the studios around him were all occupied at that time of the morning with 2Fm breakfast, Marty Whelan on lyric, himself on Gold and the traffic reporter feeding into Rte1/2fm and lyric having her own studio so if it’s a large building why are they all bunched so close together?

ford fiesta

There are around 13 studios in the radio building, 2 of those are for music performances. so plenty of them left for radio shows.

thejuggler

I’ve never seen the radio centre in Montrose but had assumed that certain studios were used pretty much full time by a particular station - eg a mostly music driven station like 2FM or RTE gold has different requirements to a speech broadcaster like radio 1. Or is it more fluid than that? Wasn’t one of the 2fm studios christened the Larry Gogan suite?

Shan Doras

Ronan Collins mentioned this in an newspaper interview a few days ago, mentioned how empty the radio centre is these days. I wonder is it rtes long term plan to have all radio and tv in the one building eventually ?

Chun the Unavoidable

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yes, and the TV studios are also being reduced - there is talk that the LLS will move off campus while the studios are being redeveloped as they are outdated. I'd imagine they will be trying to sell off buildings but the Radio Centre is a unique thing - all the studios are underground for sound reasons - so its hard to know who will want them. Maybe there is a big plan in the Department to entice TV3 to montrose, odder things have come out in the past.

its_steve116

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