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RTÉ.ie
Screenshot of RTÉ.ie on 27 October 2021
Type of site
Portal
Available inEnglish
Irish
OwnerRaidió Teilifís Éireann
Created byRTÉ Publishing
URLwww.rte.ie
IPv6 supportYes
CommercialYes
RegistrationNone
Launched26 May 1996; 29 years ago (1996-05-26)
Current statusActive

RTÉ.ie is the brand name and home of Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)'s online activities. The site began publishing on 26 May 1996. According to RTÉ, it operates on an entirely commercial basis, receiving none of the licence fee which funds much of RTÉ's activity.[1] The site, it says, is funded by advertising and section sponsorship. However, RTÉ has had to defend itself from allegations of anti-competitiveness brought about by licence fee support.[2]

As of 2010, it was among the top 4,000 most visited websites globally, by Alexa rankings,[3] and among the top 10 sites in Ireland[4] with impressions of over 75 million per month and over 4 million unique users.[5] A redesign of the website's home page, news and business sections took place on 13 October 2010.[6]

Online activities

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The RTÉ News and Current Affairs independent business unit is branded as RTÉ News. The news site was launched in 1998. This section of the site offers access to all the news programmes broadcast by RTÉ on radio and on television. The site employs sectioning of news items, poll features, numerous microsites such as for general elections, referendums, and throughout the national budget. It also provides business news which commenced in 2001 as OnBusiness, which is now RTÉ Business. RTÉ.ie Sport was founded in August 1999 and provides live updating of scores across various disciplines and covers the range of Irish sports along with major world events and other smaller sports and codes with an Irish interest.

On 10 June 2010, RTÉ relaunched their entertainment and RTÉ Guide websites. RTÉ TEN (The Entertainment Network) was the new name for RTÉ's online entertainment section. RTÉ TEN planned to be an entertainment news website for the social-media generation, which would connect with users through social media platforms.[7]

Other online activities on the site include the RTÉ Television and RTÉ Radio sections, while access to themed selections from the RTÉ Libraries and Archives is also available.[8]

RTÉ Brainstorm is a collaboration between RTÉ and Irish universities, which produces written, audio-visual and podcast content to explain ideas to the public. Rather than being commissioned, articles are submitted by members of the academic community for approval.[9][10][11][12]

Awards

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RTÉ.ie has won several Golden Spider Awards,[13] including an Information Excellence Award (in 1999)[14] and Best Media Service Website award (2004).[15]

Former staff

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RTÉ.ie has seen a number of its journalists go on to further careers within RTÉ, elsewhere in the Irish media and further afield. Former staff and freelance online journalists have included:

See also

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  • Australia's SBS
  • CBC.ca – the online service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

References

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  1. ^ "RTÉ Annual Report" (PDF). RTÉ.ie. 2007. p. 27.
  2. ^ "RTÉ defends website on anti-competitive claims". RTÉ. 15 December 2010
  3. ^ "rte.ie - Site info". Alexa.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Meet the new Alexa". Archived from the original on 9 February 2010.
  5. ^ "RTÉ.ie Introduces Home Page and News Site Redesigns". RTÉ.
  6. ^ "RTÉ.ie unveils major redesigns". RTÉ.
  7. ^ "RTÉ's entertainment website for the social-media generation". Silicon Republic. 10 June 2010. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  8. ^ "Eammon Andrews on New Year's Eve, 1961, the first outside broadcast". RTÉ.ie.
  9. ^ "RTE Brainstorm Workshop". Maynooth University.
  10. ^ "Brainstorm: University of Limerick research to feature in new five-part RTÉ series". University of Limerick. 28 April 2022.
  11. ^ "Brainstorm is a collaboration between third level institutions in Ireland including TU Dublin to make contributions to the public debate". Technological University Dublin.
  12. ^ "So you want to write for RTÉ Brainstorm…". Irish Research Council.
  13. ^ "The Eircom Spiders".
  14. ^ "RTÉ News Online wins Golden Spider award". RTÉ. 2 September 1999.
  15. ^ "RTÉ website wins two awards". RTÉ. 2 December 2005.
  16. ^ "Bloomberg Business Week – Authors". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012.
  17. ^ "Steve Cummins - Irish freelance journalist & content editor". Steve Cummins.
  18. ^ "The revolution will be streamed". The revolution will be streamed. 26 November 2021.
  19. ^ "Blathnaid Healy". Blathnaid Healy.
  20. ^ "Bibliocook.com".
  21. ^ "Twitter.com – Sinéad Kissane".
  22. ^ "Bill Lehane.com – RTÉ News".
  23. ^ Laurence Mackin (13 April 2011). "The Irish Times Blogs – Pursued By a Bear – Siobhan Mannion takes Hennessy Award". The Irish Times.
  24. ^ "Madhouse Films". Archived from the original on 28 December 2012.
  25. ^ "Documentary Maker Elizabeth O'Neill". RTÉ.
  26. ^ "Barry Whyte | Home". barryjwhyte.com.
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