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RTÉ Two
Launched:	November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. Events 676 - Donus becomes Pope. 1772 - American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence. 1783 - In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George... 2nd November Events January January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 - Air Indias Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay - 213 dead. January 4 - Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet. January 7 - Emilio Palma is born in Antarctica, making... 1978
Audience Share:	11.7% (Mar '05)
Previous Names:	RTÉ2 (1978-1988), (RTÉ) Network 2 (1988-2004)
Owned By:	Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ; English: Radio and Television of Ireland) is the national publicly-funded broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1. 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31... Radio Telefís Éireann
Web Address:	www.rte.ie
Availability
Terrestrial Analogue:	Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). Common uses for VHF are FM radio broadcast at 88-108 MHz and television broadcast (together with UHF). VHF is also commonly used for terrestrial navigation systems (VOR in... VHF channels G, H, I; This article is about the radio frequency. See also UHF (movie) Ultra high frequency (UHF) designates a range (band) of electromagnetic waves whose frequency is between 300 MHz and 3.0 GHz. Waves whose frequency is above the UHF band fall into the microwave or higher bands, while lower frequency... UHF channels 26, 33, 43, 56, 57 ( For other meanings of PAL see PAL (disambiguation). PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, Phase Alternation by Line or for Phase Alternation Line, is a colour encoding used in broadcast television systems, used throughout the world except in most of the Americas, some East Asian countries (which use NTSC), parts... PAL I system)
NTL Digital:	Republic of Ireland channel 102, Northern Ireland channel 755
Chorus Digital:	Channel 2
Satellite:	Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28.2°E and Eutelsats Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5°E. BSkyBs analogue broadcasts ceased in 2001, so nowadays the service is sometimes marketed as... Sky Digital: Channel 102 ( The Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official description of an independent state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. It is the westernmost state of the European Union, and has a developed economy and... ROI only), Channel 268 ( Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. It has a land border with the Republic of Ireland in the island of Ireland and is otherwise bounded by sea. It covers 14,139 square kilometres (5,459 square miles) in the north-east... NI only)

RTÉ Two (known from 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events Environmental change Zebra mussels found in the Great lakes December 2 - Cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless - thousands dead December 7 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale killed nearly 25.000... 1988 to 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) Elections were held in 73 countries during 2004. See a list of elections... 2004 as Network 2 or RTÉ Network Two) is The Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official description of an independent state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. It is the westernmost state of the European Union, and has a developed economy and... Ireland's second-oldest See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Family watching television in the 1950s. Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television programming and transmission... television channel, produced by Irish state broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ; English: Radio and Television of Ireland) is the national publicly-funded broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1. 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31... Radio Telefís Éireann. It started broadcasting in Events January January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 - Air Indias Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay - 213 dead. January 4 - Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet. January 7 - Emilio Palma is born in Antarctica, making... 1978 as RTÉ2; its name was changed to Network 2 in September 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events Environmental change Zebra mussels found in the Great lakes December 2 - Cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless - thousands dead December 7 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale killed nearly 25.000... 1988. There was another major relaunch in 1997, the channel was visually rebranded as "N2", though announcers continued to refer to "Network 2".

RTÉ Two's main emphasis is on programmes for children and young people, particularly during the daytime, with sports and American, when used as an adjective, can mean of the United States of America or of or relating to the Americas; when used as a noun, United States citizen, residing in the Americas, or less frequently American English. Immigrants to the United States are usually called first-generation Americans, regardless... American imports in the evenings. It is also the home of RTÉ's live sports coverage. The channel's children's strand, The Den is the childrens television strand on RTÉ Two in Ireland. History The Den is a daily childrens television show on RTÉ Two in Ireland. Started in the 1980s as Dempseys Den, it was fronted by Ian Dempsey for many years, and ran from 3 PM... The Den runs from 6am to 5pm each weekday, followed by its youth strand, The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is iD. iD is a television programme from RTE which runs from 5 PM to 7 PM weekdays, following The Den. It is targeted at the teenage audience, and serves as a container for The... iD Two from 5pm to 7pm. RTÉ News on Two airs each weekday after 10:45pm.

RTÉ Two is universally available throughout the island of A true colour image of Ireland, captured by a NASA satellite on January 4, 2003. Scotland, the Isle of Man and Wales are visible to the east. Ireland is located west of the European landmass, which is part of the continent of Eurasia. Ireland (Éire in Irish) is the... Ireland on the Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). Common uses for VHF are FM radio broadcast at 88-108 MHz and television broadcast (together with UHF). VHF is also commonly used for terrestrial navigation systems (VOR in... VHF and This article is about the radio frequency. See also UHF (movie) Ultra high frequency (UHF) designates a range (band) of electromagnetic waves whose frequency is between 300 MHz and 3.0 GHz. Waves whose frequency is above the UHF band fall into the microwave or higher bands, while lower frequency... UHF bands (though VHF has mostly been phased out), and is also available on Satellite television is television delivered by way of orbiting communications satellites located 37,000 km (22,300 miles) above the earths surface. The first satellite television signal was relayed from Europe to the Telstar satellite over North America in 1962. The first domestic North American satellite to carry television... satellite to The Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official description of an independent state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. It is the westernmost state of the European Union, and has a developed economy and... Irish subscribers to Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28.2°E and Eutelsats Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5°E. BSkyBs analogue broadcasts ceased in 2001, so nowadays the service is sometimes marketed as... Sky Digital.

From September 2003, continuity announcers and trailers began to refer to the channel by the fuller title of "RTÉ Network Two", in line with a new RTÉ initive to promote the corporate branding. The main channel This article is about the Internet protocol. For the jargon contraction used in the broadcasting world, see station identification. The Ident Protocol, specified in RFC 1413, is an internet server system that helps identify the user of a particular TCP connection. One popular daemon program for providing the ident service... idents never changed, and said merely "N2" (apart from the on-screen Digital On-Screen Graphics or a DOG/DOG Tag is the name for the overlayed station logo that many broadcasters use for easy identification of their channels. The DOG was first used on satellite and cable television systems in their early days, when broadcasts were unmarked in the bouquet. On... DOG).

The channel's name was reverted to RTÉ Two on 2nd October 2004 at 8pm, with an accompanying publicity campaign featuring Podge and Rodge are the two characters from A Scare at Bedtime, an Irish adult comedy televised puppet show. The characters were created and are produced by Mick OHara and Ronan McCabe. Podge originally appeared on The Den, as a decidedly evil little character. At first, he was introduced... Podge and Rodge (see The Den is the childrens television strand on RTÉ Two in Ireland. History The Den is a daily childrens television show on RTÉ Two in Ireland. Started in the 1980s as Dempseys Den, it was fronted by Ian Dempsey for many years, and ran from 3 PM... The Den). The new logo is similar in style to the current RTE ONE logo.

Saturday Night Live logo (2004 Season) Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night ninety-minute live comedy-variety show which has been broadcasted virtually every Saturday night on the American NBC network since its debut on October 11, 1975. It is one of the longest-running network entertainment... SNL mocked this station as "Ireland's Other TV Channel", which it was for many years.