Nuacht TG4 is a daily half-hour Irish language

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

 TV news bulletin produced by RTÉ News and Current Affairs for the Irish language Television station TG4

TG4

TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....

. The programme is broadcast weekday evenings at 19:00, live

Live television

Live television refers to a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. From the early days of television until about 1958, live television was used heavily, except for filmed shows such as I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke. Video tape did not exist until 1957...

 from the studios of TG4 in Baile na hAbhann

Baile na hAbhann

Baile na hAbhann is a Gaeltacht village and townland about 31 km west of Galway, Ireland, on the R336 regional road between Indreabhán and Casla. The name means "river settlement"....

, County Galway

County Galway

County Galway is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the city of Galway. Galway County Council is the local authority for the county. There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county...

. A shortened edition of the programme is broadcast on weekend evenings at around 18:45.

Format and Presenters

The programme is usually anchored by Maolra Mac Donnchadha or Eimear Ní Chonaola, with Ailbhe Ó Monacháin and Eibhlín Ní Choistealbha occasionally substituting.

Nuacht TG4 also broadcasts a weekly programme called Timpeall na Tíre, which is a review of the week's top stories from Nuacht TG4.

TG4 provides an overnight international news service in the form of a simulcast of the English language version of French public news station France 24

France 24

France 24 is an international news and current affairs television channel. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, DW-TV, NHK World and RT, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world. During 2010 the channel started broadcasting through...

.

Nuacht TG4 programme has an average viewership

Audience measurement

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 of 35-40,000.

Since September 2010 Nóiméad Nuachta (News Minute) has broadcast each week day at 13:55.

History

Nuacht TnaG initially was broadcast at 22:00 each night, later moving to 20:00 and finally to 19:00 where it currently remains. From 1996 to 1998 Gráinne Seoige

Gráinne Seoige

Gráinne Seoige is an Irish television presenter, Gaeilgeoir, and "fashion icon",Gráinne Seoige is one of the few television presenters who has worked for all terrestrial channels in the Republic of Ireland at some point. She has worked as a news anchor on TG4, TV3 and Sky News Ireland...

 was the main news anchor for the channel, in 1998 she moved to TV3 to launch their main evening news where she remained until 2004. In 1998 Ailbhe Ó Monachain became TG4's main news anchor. With the rebranding of TnaG as TG4 the news service also renamed as Nuacht TG4. In 2004 Eimear Ní Chonaola became TG4's main news anchor.

External links

• http://www.tg4.ie/stud/nuac/nuac.asp
• RTÉ News
• Nuacht RTÉ