RTÉ Radio 1 dates back to January 1st 1926, when the Dublin radio station 2RN began broadcasting on a regular basis. Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ...

A relay of 2RN in Cork, known as 6CK, opened in 1927. A high power transmitter at Athlone in County Westmeath, opened in 1932. From then onwards the three stations became known as Radio Athlone, later being renamed Radio Éireann in 1937. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Athlone, Ireland, (Irish: Baile Átha Luain, meaning the town of the ford of Luan) lies on the River Shannon near the southern extremity of Lough Ree, some 130 km (80 miles) west of Dublin. ... County Westmeath (An Iarmhí in Irish) is a county situated in the Irish Midlands, in the western part of the province of Leinster. ...

Like most European national stations at that time, Radio Éireann tried to be all things to all listeners on its single channel. It broadcast a mix of heavy and light entertainment, Irish language programming and talks. Sponsored programming, which also featured in the schedule, tended to be lighter and more popular than the programming made directly by Radio Éireann itself. Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...

Radio Éireann began FM transmission in 1966, and was renamed RTÉ Radio later that year. RTÉ Radio became known as RTÉ Radio 1 in 1979 upon the establishment of the rock and pop station RTÉ Radio 2 (now 2FM). The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM radio, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... RTÉ 2FM, or 2FM as it is commonly referred to, is RTÉs second national radio station. ...

RTÉ Radio 1 broadcasts a mixture of news, current affairs, features, arts coverage, drama, sport, music (from popular music favourites through country and traditional to world music and jazz), and general entertainment.

Today RTÉ Radio 1 is available in Ireland on FM, 567 kHz MW and 252 kHz LW. It is also available on the web and from the Astra 2 and Hotbird satellites and at nighttimes also on the mentioned medium- and lngwave frequencies in Europe. Listeners outside Europe can hear a selection of RTÉ Radio 1 programmes on the WRN service. SES-Astra (Société Européenne des Satellites-Astra) is a Luxembourg-based corporation which owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ... Hot Bird is the common name of a family of 5 satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13 degrees East over the Equator (orbital position) and transmitting in free-to-air towards 98 million households in Europe, North Africa &, the Middle East. ...

External link

• Official site (http://www.radio1.ie)