The department covers both Radio, Online and Television output for young people across RTÉ.
Independent productions consists largely of animations, live action and entertainment programming, while much of the RTÉ's own produced children's content was studio based.
In mid-2016 RTÉ's Two Tube (previously ID and TTV) finished up for its normal season and then moved online for the rest of 2016.
[6] Under pressure the management team assured the public that RTÉ "is not reducing its commitment to younger people's programmes, nor its spend",[7] however they had already cut funding to children's content by 25%,[8] this was then followed in 2017 with a further cut of 50% bring their total spend on Young People's content to just €3.9 million.
[9] In 2018 RTÉ increased funding to €5.8 million but by 2019 had cut it back to €4.7m,[10] this compares to support provided to children's content in 2010 and 2011 of €11m.
[13] In 1946 Radio Éireann was providing 30 minutes per day to children's programming, across music, plays, competitions and talk.
[14] In 1948 a series title "Arts Adventures" began broadcasting with Sean Bunny and Marion King [15] On 31 December 1961 Ireland's first national television station, Telefís Éireann, was officially launched.
Jo Maxi ran until the mid-1990s and was replaced in favour of a younger programme called Echo Island.
Jo Maxi continue until the mid-1990s, it was dropped in favour of Echo Island a show aim at the pre-teen market.
In early 1990 many pre-school programmes were added to morning TV on RTÉ ONE, before moving full to RTÉ2 in 1998, where Den2 began broadcasting from 09:00 until 17:30.
Live action series included the teen musical comedy Finbar's Class and the BBC co-production Custer's Last Stand-Up.
It aired from 17:30 to 19:00 each week night, introducing teen programmes such as Sabrina The Teenage Witch, followed by The Simpsons and the Australian soap Home and Away.
In 2011 RTÉjr was given its own channel, initially broadcasting Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 18:00 and later expanding to a 7 day week and starting at 07:00 and closing at 19:00.