[1] When faced with numerous complaints from Cork regarding the writers' inability to tune in to the signal, Clandillon remarked in The Irish Radio Review, a magazine dedicated to the service, that they did not know how to operate their sets.
A high power (initially 60 kW) station was established in Athlone, in 1932, to coincide with the staging of the Eucharistic Congress.
[2] Since 1928 the Radio Éireann studios had been housed in the newly rebuilt GPO on O'Connell Street in the centre of Dublin.
The new broadcasting authority established in 1960 was primarily concerned with the introduction of television, but they also recognised that the radio service had long outgrown the cramped conditions in the GPO and that a new home was needed.
An Irish language channel, Raidió na Gaeltachta, began broadcasting on 2 April 1972; RnaG has grown to become an influential news, music and spoken word service.
Broadcasting on RTÉ Radio 1 provides comprehensive coverage of news, current affairs, music, drama and variety features, agriculture, education, religion and sport, mostly in English but also some Irish.
The broadcaster launched nine digital-only channels in May 2007, as part of a trial to assess if demand existed for new radio services.
Transmitters provided DAB coverage focused on three cities: Dublin, Limerick and Cork and parts of the Northeast.
[7] On 6 November 2019, RTÉ management announced that, as part of a major cost-saving programme, all of its digital radio stations would be closed.
[9] Additionally, core services are carried on satellite television platforms on Astra 28.2°E, and are included in the Sky and Freesat EPGs.
[citation needed] RTÉ Radio One was relayed on longwave, using the former Atlantic 252 transmitter in County Meath.