{"id":40671,"date":"2019-11-18T08:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T12:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40671"},"modified":"2019-11-18T08:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T12:31:26","slug":"rte-to-continue-longwave-radio-service-into-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/rte-to-continue-longwave-radio-service-into-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 to continue longwave radio service into 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9<\/strong>\u00a0is going to spend \u20ac250,000 per year transmitting its Radio One station to the Irish diaspora in Britain \u2013 while closing down all its digital stations.<\/p>\n

The station is shutting down RT\u00c9 Gold, RTE Junior, RT\u00c9 2XM, RT\u00c9 Pulse and RT\u00c9 Radio 1 Extra, but would not specify how much this will save.<\/p>\n

However, it has confirmed that it is going to continue its Longwave radio service to the Irish diaspora in Britain up to 2022.<\/p>\n

Read the full story at
\nhttps:\/\/www.businesspost
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(Source: Southgate ARC) RT\u00c9\u00a0is going to spend \u20ac250,000 per year transmitting its Radio One station to the Irish diaspora in Britain \u2013 while closing down all its digital stations. The station is shutting down RT\u00c9 Gold, RTE Junior, RT\u00c9 2XM, RT\u00c9 Pulse and RT\u00c9 Radio 1 Extra, but would not specify how much this will […]<\/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":[2436,3],"tags":[3299,3472,580],"class_list":["post-40671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longwave","category-news","tag-rte","tag-rte-longwave","tag-southgate-arc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-azZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38473,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/rte-longwave-service-temporarily-suspended\/","url_meta":{"origin":40671,"position":0},"title":"RT\u00c9 longwave service temporarily suspended","author":"Thomas","date":"July 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Southgate ARC) RT\u00c9\u00a0on 252 Khz is now off air for a possible 10 weeks or so and in the UK we can hear signals from Algeria Chaine 3 even now in the middle of the day. 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