RTÉ ONE, 2, Junior, and Player

And on 2FM this Christmas Day catch-up on all of the biggest and best music and entertainment stories of the year with Lottie Ryan and Conor Behan.

Across the festive season 2FM will have celebrity takeovers where some well-known names in Irish entertainment will be handed control of the Christmas playlist. First up is Chubby Cat followed by Davina Devine.

Wow. Very inspiring

They are mentioned in yesterday’s Press Release.

https://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/1484073-christmas-on-rte/

RTÉ have put a proposal into the Department to consider the closure of their Digital Radio Station bar RTÉ Radio GOLD. Not sure when this happened, not sure if the +1's were included in the proposal.

This is old news as it was announced as part of the 5 year strategy to close them except for RTE Gold which I listen to a lot . Of course the Dept will have to consider this but you would imagine a revamped app to happen next year will probably cater for what's on them

So from that I would expect that RTÉ Digital Radio Stations will be on the air until Mart 2026.

Proposal only just sent in at the end of 2025, currently with the CnaM, most likely not a pressing issue for the minister or the department, hold on long figure until decision is made in September 2025, RTÉ start the closure process… March 2026. If the minister has made a decision.

I suppose the late application for closure at the end of 2024 will be blamed on the Minister and the Department and not RTÉ slow request to the minister.

There are possibly other forms but surely RTÉ could simple utilize their own marketing people for this. They have serveral market campaigns for all of their services running, or are this all designed by outside consultants!

CnaM will send their SIA to the minister in March

The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media is required to consult with Coimisiún na Meán regarding the sectoral impact and the public value of the proposal submitted by RTÉ to close four of its Digital Radio Services. Our role is to act in an advisory capacity to the Department for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. However, the final decision as to whether to permit the closure will rest with the Minister. 

We are currently in the process of carrying out our assessment and will provide a summary report to the Department in March 2025.

So RTÉ Digital Radio station will continue to be on the air until at least June 2025.

AFAIK the department is being split, with communications and media going back into one department. One suggestion was Mary Butler (FF) but I think this was for the Arts and Culture.

I have managed, somehow, to add the RTEplayer to my Firestick, I couldn't say exactly how I did it, it is a bit of a work around but it works. By downloading the Amazon Internet app, searching in Bing for the player and saving it as a bookmark, I can directly access the player from the homepage, all options are available, player, live. Maybe someone on here can suggest another route or a way to refine the process. The photos are not great, a bit of reflection on the screen.

Sound gone on RTÉ ONE +1 and RTÉ2 +1 all night and into this morning, is this just on Sky Ireland, I see someone either in Sky or RTÉ decided to throw on the subtitles on RTÉ ONE so clearly they are aware of the issue, but forgot RTÉ2 +1.

Anyone else seeing this on other platforms Soarview and Virgin Media?