RTÉ News: One O'Clock
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RTÉ News: One O'Clock is an Irish
television
news bulletin by RTÉ News and Current Affairs. The programme is broadcast Monday-Friday at 13:00 on the Irish RTÉ One
TV channel. It can also be watched in full as a RealPlayer
video stream from its associated Internet
webpage and via RTÉ News Now
.
The bulletin was introduced in 1988 when RTÉ launched a new look to its schedules on RTÉ One including the hour long RTÉ Six-One News. Before 1988, programmes on RTÉ One did not begin until around 15:00, but from 1988 programmes would begin from around midday.
The One O'Clock News is usually presented by either Aengus Mac Grianna, Una O Hagan, John Finnerty or Eileen Wheelan. Aengus and Una work on the same days sharing the early or late shift. Likewise for John and Eileen. These changes have been in place since the retirement of Ken Hammond. The programme is shorter than other RTÉ News bulletins, running for about 20 minutes. During the summer months, the One O'Clock News is sometimes shortened to an extended summary.
which is accompanied by in-vision subtitles, also in Irish (by way of devoting the right half of the screen to a feed from the autocue
). This ended in 2009 when Nuacht RTÉ moved its studio from Dublin to TG4 Galway.
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news bulletin by RTÉ News and Current Affairs. The programme is broadcast Monday-Friday at 13:00 on the Irish RTÉ One
RTÉ One
RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...
TV channel. It can also be watched in full as a RealPlayer
RealPlayer
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video stream from its associated Internet
Internet
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webpage and via RTÉ News Now
RTÉ News Now
RTÉ News Now is a 24-hour news television network in the Republic of Ireland operated byIrish public service broadcaster RTÉ. The channel launched as RTÉ News Now available exclusively online on June 12, 2008. The channel began broadcasting as a free-to-air channel on October 29, 2010 on...
.
The bulletin was introduced in 1988 when RTÉ launched a new look to its schedules on RTÉ One including the hour long RTÉ Six-One News. Before 1988, programmes on RTÉ One did not begin until around 15:00, but from 1988 programmes would begin from around midday.
The One O'Clock News is usually presented by either Aengus Mac Grianna, Una O Hagan, John Finnerty or Eileen Wheelan. Aengus and Una work on the same days sharing the early or late shift. Likewise for John and Eileen. These changes have been in place since the retirement of Ken Hammond. The programme is shorter than other RTÉ News bulletins, running for about 20 minutes. During the summer months, the One O'Clock News is sometimes shortened to an extended summary.
Nuacht RTÉ
The One O'Clock bulletin was followed by Nuacht RTÉ: Cinnlínte Nuachta (RTÉ News: News Headlines), a news summary in IrishIrish 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...
which is accompanied by in-vision subtitles, also in Irish (by way of devoting the right half of the screen to a feed from the autocue
Autocue
Autocue is a UK based manufacturer of teleprompter systems, owned by QTV. The company was founded in 1955 and licensed its first teleprompter, based on a patent by Jess Oppenheimer, in 1962...
). This ended in 2009 when Nuacht RTÉ moved its studio from Dublin to TG4 Galway.
External links
- RTÉ News
- RTE News: One O'Clock — lists recent One O'Clock programs and links to their Real player streams