A look at the stations.
RTÉ Choice is a mainly non-music channel. It features content from RTÉ Radio, BBC World Service, America’s National Public Radio (NPR) network, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands, Radio France International among others.
RTÉ Junior is RTÉ's kids channel. I obviously missed all the programming for the day. It is aimed at children aged 2 to 12 the station will broadcast chart music, nursery rhymes and bedtime stories.
RTÉ Gold is a playlist radio station with no talking! Which is both good and bad. No annoying presenters, but how do you find out what the song is called!!! RTÉ Gold features music from the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. They also include album tracks that might not have been released. Which exasperates the no presenter problem in my mind!
RTÉ 2XM is RTÉ 2FM's sister station and features alternative music from both international and local artists. This channel has plenty of shows using DJ's from 2FM and new DJ talent to come up with some highly interesting looking shows.
RTÉ Pulse is RTÉ dance station and is really cool in my opinion. I have turned into a dance head recently. Whats really interesting about RTÉ Pulse is that at 8pm on Wednesday there will be a Gay show on it called "The Cosmopolitan" presented by Scott De Buitléir and it will be in Irish and English. The blurb of the show is as follows
Join Scott De Buitléir every Wednesday evening on The Cosmopolitan from 6pm (8pm??). Scott will provide high-quality dance floor remixes of what’s currently topping the charts as well as plenty information and all the latest news for the LGBT communities around Ireland. Mixes will come from the likes of the Freemasons and Richi Rich, along with the best broadcasts from Gaydar Radio. Think of it as a pre-clubbing event, coming to you from your very own radio!
Scott began working as a presenter for various different radio stations since he was 15 and won Comórtas Réalt DJ (in association with Foras na Gaeilge and TG4) at the age of 18 in 2006.
He is also hot!
I am looking forward to listening to the show on Wednesday it should be interesting! Especially the fact that RTÉ will be rebroadcasting Gaydar Radio!!!!!
RTÉ Chill starts at 9pm -7am and is a playlist only station playing an eclectic mix of ambient, electronica and chill out
music from the ‘80s to the present day. Not my cup of tea normally but I might listen to it
These channels have been on DAB (and available ove rthe net) for a good few months.
ReplyDeleteXM isn't bad but sometimes if you listen for a good while it starts to loop back over previous songs in the exact same order.
Ahh but Des those of us down the country don't have DAB. Those channels were *offically* launched yesterday. I only found mocharadio.ie and all80s.ie last night which are good stations also! Now I want a DAB radio!
ReplyDeleteThe loop issue is something that can happen with a playlist station. They might imporove that.
anyways thanks for the comment!
"Down the country" ?
ReplyDeleteI'm in Cork boy !
sorry Des!!! For some reason I think everyone on the web is from Dublin! Found your blog, have popped by many times and am now subbed! :)
ReplyDeleteAh good. Another (soon-to-be) loyal reader.
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