RTÉ Pulse
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RTÉ Pulse is an electronic dance music
station from RTÉ
, Ireland's national broadcaster. It broadcasts on the RTÉ DAB Multiplex
and Saorview
Ireland's free to air DTT
service in Ireland. Online worldwide and on the Irish Cable system UPC/NTL channel 943. It plays a varied mix of dance music. It started in April 2008, but had an official launch alongside its sister services on Dec 1st 2008.
Originally started as a jukebox
service, with no presenters; it now carries live and pre-recorded shows from a number - currently 31 - of Irish and international DJs, including Jason Dee, Nikki Hayes
, Will Kinsella, Paul Byrne, Stephen Daly, Brian Taffe, Orla Feeney
, Al Redmond, and David Cronin. The service regularly carries live outside broadcasts, such as the 2008 Southern edition of PlanetLove
. It regularly comes live from the Café Mambo
studios in Ibiza.
The service uses RTE facilities from all around the country and overseas. There are regular weekly live shows from the Cork, Limerick, Athlone, Belfast and Castlebar studios. The service regularly broadcasts live from the RTE or BBC studios in London.
On Wednesday nights programming is dedicated to listeners from the LGBT
community, with four different shows presented by
Scott Up De Buitléir, Nick Randell, Sinéad Houlihan, Conor Behan and Jonathan O'Sullivan.
The schedule is designed to be stranded in its approach to fulfilling its remit of representing all genres of dance music. Monday evenings for example is House Music, Tuesdays Trance and harder edge and so forth.
Sunday's scheduling draws very much from the eclectic styles of the genre.
Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music is electronic music produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment...
station from RTÉ
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Raidió Teilifís Éireann is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1, 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31, 1961, making...
, Ireland's national broadcaster. It broadcasts on the RTÉ DAB Multiplex
RTÉ DAB Multiplex
Digital Audio Broadcasting in Ireland is the only current form of digital radio transmission in the state. It was launched to the public on 30 November 2006, with trials taking place in 1998, 2001 and 2006...
and Saorview
Saorview
Saorview is the national free-to-air digital terrestrial television service in Republic of Ireland.The service began operation on 29 October 2010 on a trial basis with full launch on 26 May 2011. By legislation it was required to be available to approximately 90% of the population by end of...
Ireland's free to air DTT
Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...
service in Ireland. Online worldwide and on the Irish Cable system UPC/NTL channel 943. It plays a varied mix of dance music. It started in April 2008, but had an official launch alongside its sister services on Dec 1st 2008.
Originally started as a jukebox
Jukebox
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media...
service, with no presenters; it now carries live and pre-recorded shows from a number - currently 31 - of Irish and international DJs, including Jason Dee, Nikki Hayes
Nikki Hayes
Nikki Hayes is a DJ on Spin 1038. She previously presented The All-Request Lunch on RTÉ 2fm. Hayes has also DJed in numerous clubs across Ireland. Hayes was strongly linked with Dundrum Town Centre and broadcasted from there regularly...
, Will Kinsella, Paul Byrne, Stephen Daly, Brian Taffe, Orla Feeney
Orla Feeney
Orla Feeney is an Irish DJ, radio presenter and trance music producer. From Leixlip, County Kildare, she is signed to Vandit Records and currently presents shows on RTE Pulse and RTE 2FM....
, Al Redmond, and David Cronin. The service regularly carries live outside broadcasts, such as the 2008 Southern edition of PlanetLove
PlanetLove
PlanetLove is an annual Northern Irish electronic music festival which has been held since 1998 - with a skipped year in 2004. Currently held at Shane's Castle near Randalstown in County Antrim, it was previously held at Nutts Corner , Kings Hall in Belfast and near Cookstown in County...
. It regularly comes live from the Café Mambo
Café Mambo
Café Mambo is a bar located in Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza. It is most famous for being the official pre party point for Pacha Ibiza, and hosting some of the most famous DJs in the world including Carl Cox, David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia who have a weekly residency there during the...
studios in Ibiza.
The service uses RTE facilities from all around the country and overseas. There are regular weekly live shows from the Cork, Limerick, Athlone, Belfast and Castlebar studios. The service regularly broadcasts live from the RTE or BBC studios in London.
On Wednesday nights programming is dedicated to listeners from the LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
community, with four different shows presented by
Scott Up De Buitléir, Nick Randell, Sinéad Houlihan, Conor Behan and Jonathan O'Sullivan.
The schedule is designed to be stranded in its approach to fulfilling its remit of representing all genres of dance music. Monday evenings for example is House Music, Tuesdays Trance and harder edge and so forth.
Sunday's scheduling draws very much from the eclectic styles of the genre.