Radio News Releases - July 2007

PRESS RELEASE: RTÉ CELEBRATES 70 YEARS AT THE GALWAY RACES RTÉ RTÉ CELEBRATES 70 YEARS AT THE GALWAY RACES The national broadcaster, RTÉ, will celebrate 70 years of live broadcasts from the Galway Races this year with unrivalled live coverage of the racing festival across three platforms: radio, television and online. RTÉ Radio, known as Radio Éireann at the time, broadcast its first live commentary […]
RTÉ Radio 1 to record public interview with Jeremy Irons at Galway Film Fleadh RTÉ Radio   RTÉ Radio 1 to record public interview with Jeremy Irons at Galway Film Fleadh   In the first of a new series of public interviews for RTÉ Radio 1 broadcaster John Kelly will interview actor Jeremy Irons in the Town Hall Theatre at 4.30pm on Sunday 15 July.  The interview will then […]
RTÉ Radio 1 announces changes to evening schedule RTÉ Radio   RTÉ Radio 1 announces changes to evening schedule   RTÉ Radio 1 today (4 July) announced changes to its evening schedule which will be introduced in autumn this year.   At 8pm there will be a new hour-long arts programme which will be presented by renowned poet and playwright Vincent Woods.   A […]
PRESS RELEASE: Myles Dungan presents new RTÉ Radio 1 series from California’s Highway 101 RTÉ Radio Myles Dungan presents new RTÉ Radio 1 series from California’s Highway 101 From Saturday, 7 July well-known broadcaster Myles Dungan will present a new series on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturday mornings, Highway 101. Highway 101 snakes along the length of California and it is on this road that Myles Dungan has been […]
PRESS RELEASE: RTÉ 2FM DOUBLES LIVE OXEGEN COVERAGE THIS YEAR RTÉ Radio RTÉ 2FM DOUBLES LIVE OXEGEN COVERAGE THIS YEAR 2FM LIVE@OXEGEN — GIMME MORE MORE MORE RTÉ 2fm is set to double its live coverage of the Oxegen festival this year, with not one but two RTÉ radio stations broadcasting live sets from the three day festival.  In addition to 2FM LIVE@OXEGEN on FM […]