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RADIO TELEFÍS ÉIREANN Operational Review RTÉ Radio (continued) Our War, a Radio series to recognise the role of the Irish in the First World War, featured cross-IBD output with Television and Publishing and was accompanied by a book of the same title in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy. A CD of the documentary The Diary of Leanne Wolfe, which was awarded the International Radio Award at the Premios Ondas Awards in October, was distributed to every second-level school in Ireland. RTÉ 2fm The schedule changes made in 2007 began to show benefit in 2008, with The Colm and Jim-Jim Breakfast Show, The Saturday Show and The Gerry Ryan Show all achieving audience growth. RTÉ 2fm maintained its commitment to broadcasting live music. The channel’s coverage of the summer music festivals equated to 46 broadcast hours of live music and the channel doubled broadcast hours of studio sessions with young Irish bands and dance music commissions. The 2moro2our played at 11 venues nationwide in spring, and the RTÉ 2fm School of Rock talent search, an initiative to discover new bands, took place at the end of the year. RTÉ 2fm provided over 100 hours of live music for its digital sister channel RTÉ 2XM and interviews, sessions and live recordings of over 100 artists were made available Online, a significant addition to the coverage of summer festivals in particular. Operation Transformation commenced on RTÉ 2fm’s The Gerry Ryan Show and then partnered RTÉ Television and RTÉ. ie. Demand for podcasting grew during the year with podcasts of Nob Nation, The Best of Colm and Jim-Jim and The Gerry Ryan Show featuring high in the download charts. RTÉ lyric fm RTÉ lyric fm grew national reach to 4% by the end of 2008; its evening drive time programme Classic Drive had over 53,000 listeners each day. RTÉ lyric fm remained the most important broadcast platform for the RTÉ Performing Groups both in Ireland and abroad through the EBU’s international exchange of concerts. The new Coffee Concerts, featuring the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, were introduced and performances from the National Concert Hall’s Celebrity and Orchestral series were broadcast. Lyric Lunchtime broadcast another season of live concerts from the National Concert Hall featuring both the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Some significant events on RTÉ lyric fm included a concert of The Film Music of John Barry in June with the special guest being the composer himself, and a very successful gig and recording at the Button Factory in Dublin hosted by John Kelly. Together with Opera Ireland, RTÉ lyric fm staged a concert performance of Balfe’s opera Falstaff involving soloists, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and the National Chamber Choir at the National Concert Hall for both CD recording and broadcast. In June 2008 RTÉ lyric fm played host to the International Rostrum of Composers – an important forum for composers of new music; delegates attended a live performance by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Irish composer Gerald Barry’s opera La Plus Forte. In the latter half of 2008 RTÉ lyric fm was disappointed to have to cancel plans for some concerts which were due to be staged in association with programmes. These events were designed to raise public awareness of The challenge for RTÉ 2fm, faced with ever RTÉ lyric fm but had to be cancelled due to increasing competition from local, regional financial constraints in quarter 4 of 2008. and national stations, is to remain the premier music and entertainment station for the Innovations during 2008 included the 15-34 year olds. It must set the trend for appointment of a Composer-in-Residence these listeners nationally and, in particular, the (Elaine Agnew) and bringing New York’s channel must increase its audience share in Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series to Dublin, the country’s most keenly competitive three cinemas: Dundrum and Swords in single market. Dublin and Dungarvan in Waterford. Six CDs were released in 2008 including one to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of County Mayo-born soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan. RTÉ 2fm presenters, Jenny Greene and Jenny Huston with The Coronas. RTÉ lyric fm studio in Cornmarket Square, Limerick. Source: RTÉ Note: Category “Other” includes Religion, Young Peoples, Education and Drama 14
ANNUAL REPORT & GROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2008 Gearóid Mac Donncha, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, working at the Kayaking event at the Olympic games in Beijing. Áine Ní Churráin, presenter of Barrscéalta on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, interviewing President Mary McAleese on occasion of the 11th anniversary of her inauguration. RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta’s schedule for 2008 was positively received and included the following content highlights: • National and Regional Sports and extensive coverage of the Olympic Games in Beijing • the Lisbon Referendum including the national and key regional counts which provided much material for the expert panel in Casla to analyse on Count Day • coverage of Oireachtas na Gaeilge from Cork and Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta from Gleann Cholmcille, Co. Donegal • the US Presidential Election was covered by News with journalists keeping listeners informed of the results live • new lifetime segments included the cookery series, Bluirín Blasta and the Arts programmes, Dearc and Léite Pléite • live current affairs programme Faoi Chaibidil was added to the Sunday schedule • An Ródaí (roadcaster) travelled throughout Ireland to the major traditional music festivals and Géill Slí on Anocht fm was broadcast live from Coláistí Samhraidh in Kerry, Donegal and Galway. Funding was secured from the BCI Sound and Vision Fund for three new series, Sloinne agus Seoladh, Eureuka! and Amharclann na nÓg. Music and song recorded by the service at the Willie Clancy Summer School and a compilation of the winners of the prestigious sean-nós competition Corn Uí Riada were released on two double CDs. The publication, Tar Éis a Bháis, Áistí ar Sheán Ó Ríordáin was launched at Oireachtas na Samhna in Cork; the book is a collection of essays broadcast on the service 30 years after the death of Seán Ó Ríordáin. The commitment of the channel to podcasting continues and 33 programmes are now available as podcasts from the Raidió na Gaeltachta website. Commercial Activity and Performance RTÉ Radio achieved its targeted commercial performance during the year. Revenues from airtime, promotions, sponsorship and cross-media solution all increased. Revenues from several sectors including Retail, Communications, Motors, Entertainment, Travel, Food, and Education increased significantly. Promotional partnerships in 2008 also increased. With a number of new stations launched in 2008 and more scheduled for 2009, the competitive challenges, added to the economic downturn will ensure that 2009 is an even more testing year. Network Changes RTÉ Radio 1’s Medium Wave closure was marked by a special programme presented by Brendan Balfe on 24 March. There was interaction with social and cultural groups prior to the closure to reaffirm RTÉ’s commitment to areas such as sport and religious programming and a nationwide publicity campaign to inform listeners of the closure and of alternative ways to listen to RTÉ Radio 1. In September 2008, RTÉ Radio launched its four FM services on the U.K. Freesat platform. This free-to-air platform is available via satellite throughout the UK and Ireland. In Northern Ireland, RTÉ swapped its RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm frequencies, leading to a much improved reception of RTÉ Radio 1 in the Belfast metropolitan area (which has a population of more than 600,000). New Media Delivery of content in new ways featured strongly during the year. Internet delivery of content, both live and on-demand, continued to grow among both domestic and international audiences. RTÉ Radio now provides a wide range of live and “listen back” content and serves circa 450,000 audio streams and more than 600,000 podcasts each month. During the summer RTÉ 2fm provided multimedia websites for the Oxegen and Electric Picnic festivals that brought together audio concert performances, video interviews and still images in an innovative and exciting way. RTÉ Radio went live with schedules for six new digital radio services in December; this included RTÉ Junior, Ireland’s first children’s radio channel. The new channels are available Online and on a trial DAB service available in the greater Dublin Area, the Northeast and in Cork and Limerick cities. 15
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