RTÉ.ie is the brand name and home of RTÉ

RTE

RTÉ is the abbreviation for Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the public broadcasting service of the Republic of Ireland.RTE may also refer to:* Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey...

's online activities, located at the URL

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 http://rte.ie. The site began publishing on 26 May 1996. According to RTÉ, it operates on an entirely commercial basis, receiving none of the licence fee which funds much of RTÉ's activity. The site, it says, is funded by advertising

Advertising

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 and section sponsorship. However, RTÉ has had to defend itself from allegations of anti-competitiveness brought about by licence fee support.

, it is among the top 4,000 most visited websites globally, by Alexa

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 rankings, and among the top 10 sites in Ireland with certified impressions of over 75 million per month and over 4 million unique users.