{"id":24644,"date":"2017-03-12T08:27:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T12:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24644"},"modified":"2017-03-12T08:27:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T12:27:33","slug":"rte-to-continue-on-longwave-through-june-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/rte-to-continue-on-longwave-through-june-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 to continue on longwave through June 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Radio-Dial-2-e1480988790507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22384\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Radio-Dial-2-e1480988790507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/radiotoday.ie\/2017\/03\/rte-radio-1-to-continue-on-longwave-till-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Today<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>RT\u00c9 has agreed to continue its longwave 252 service in the UK until the end of June 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After that, RT\u00c9 hopes Radio 1 will gain approval from UK authorities to launch via a chain of small broadcast networks which cover main urban centres. Currently, a broadcaster has to be based in the UK to obtain an Ofcom licence.<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9 says using the DAB+ platform will be considerably less (approx one fifth) than the present quarter of a million per annum that RT\u00c9 expends in running costs for 252.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radiotoday.ie\/2017\/03\/rte-radio-1-to-continue-on-longwave-till-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading at Radio Today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Radio Today) RT\u00c9 has agreed to continue its longwave 252 service in the UK until the end of June 2019. After that, RT\u00c9 hopes Radio 1 will gain approval from UK authorities to launch via a chain of small broadcast networks which cover main urban centres. Currently, a broadcaster has to be based in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,2436,3],"tags":[3299,3472,2118],"class_list":["post-24644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-longwave","category-news","tag-rte","tag-rte-longwave","tag-rte-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6pu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26704,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/rte-longwave-252-maintenance-shutdown-june-27-july-8-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":24644,"position":0},"title":"RT\u00c9 longwave 252: maintenance shutdown June 27 &#8211; July 8, 2017","author":"Thomas Witherspoon","date":"June 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, James Leary, who shares the following news and audio clip from\u00a0RT\u00c9: Hi Thomas, I heard this announcement the other day about RTE 252 and thought it might be of interest for your site. 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The move was originally announced in 2014 but was postponed because of protests from Irish organisations in Britain. 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Earlier this year the chair of Ireland\u2019s Oireachtas Communications Hildegarde Naughton TD (Galway\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Longwave&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Longwave","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/longwave\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rte-logo-web1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rte-logo-web1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rte-logo-web1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11771,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/rte-longwave-extended-until-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":24644,"position":4},"title":"RT\u00c9 longwave extended until 2017","author":"Thomas","date":"December 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This is good news for those who listen to\u00a0RT\u00c9 via longwave. 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