RTÉ Radio 1 Extra is a

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station produced by the Irish public-service broadcasting service

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(RTÉ).

History

Initially launched on 1 December 2008 as

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alongside five other new digital channels – with one of which, also called RTÉ Radio 1 Extra but differently formatted (see below), it was merged in May 2013 – the channel offers a continuous service of what it describes as "quality speech from home and abroad". This is made up of programming from international English-language broadcasters such as the

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, NPR, and a number of others, together with time-shifted elements from the schedule of RTÉ's flagship station RTÉ Radio 1, plus those variations from the main Radio 1 FM schedule (chiefly church services on Sunday mornings and extended live coverage of sporting events) which are currently broadcast on Radio 1's longwave (LW) frequency. If Radio 1's LW service is withdrawn, these special programmes will be available only on Radio 1 Extra. On 6 November 2019, RTÉ management announced that, as part of a major cost-saving program, all its digital radio stations would be closed, including RTÉ Radio 1 Extra. However on 2 March 2021 it was revealed by RTÉ that the broadcaster would close its

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radio network while retaining its digital radio services, including RTÉ Radio 1 Extra. The channel repeated RTÉ Radio 1's epic 30-hour broadcast of the full text of

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's novel ''

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'' for the first time in 38 years on 16 June 2020, beginning at 8 am. The decision to repeat the broadcast was partly influenced by the quarantine introduced in Ireland to limit the spread of the

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Earlier incarnation

From December 2008 until May 2013 the name RTÉ Radio 1 Extra referred to what was essentially a digital relay of the whole of RTÉ Radio 1's LW schedule (that is to say, the RTÉ Radio 1 FM schedule with variations for religious and sports programming). Until January 2013 this service was also available in the UK from the Astra 28.2°E satellite. An official report into future broadcasting policy, published by RTÉ in January 2013,Official report: ''RTÉ today, tomorrow''
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References

External links

Official website
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History

Earlier incarnation

See also

References

External links