RTE News - Ireland

Does seem wrong. There should be bulletins after 10pm on RTE. UTV Ireland will win late-night time slots easily with Live at Ten. The other alternative apart from RTE returning to it's 10pm news is to create a news channel.

... By handling over RTÉ News Now to RTÉ's News department, and turning it into the general news channel.

There's no reason why the website people should still be running RTE News Now, other than for political (both internal RTE and wider) reasons.

The way RTE News has been run in recent years is a little bizarre. In real terms you only got television News starting at 1 and the last bulletin was on at about 11 on RTE2. This was fine as the vast majority of people are watching between midday and midnight. However, They seem to have moved the 12 hours they do news to 9 am to 9.30pm. When Morning Edition started, the evening bulletin on RTE 2 was relegated to the small studio instead of the main news studio.

It now seems for all purposes that RTE News shuts up shop at 9.30pm. The Headlines that are read out at 10 and 11 on News Now are basically radio bulletins. I wonder if the Late News on RTE1 will remain on every night from this point onwards. There have been several nights when it's just forgotten about because someone couldn't make it into studio to read the bulletin. This wasn't too much of a problem as the News on 2 existed. That's not now the case.

The live Late News on RTÉ News Now has begun (though it may have been running since RTÉ News on Two was axed). Simply branded "RTÉ News" it follows the exact same format as RTÉ News on Two in its final incarnation did. While its only a short bulletin it is a marker in that its first news bulletin produced for RTÉ News Now (which still hasn'tt rebranded!) that doesn't air on another RTÉ channel - previously the only original programming on the channel was the short entertainment slots under the odd RTÉ Ten banner that air at weekends.

In this case TEN stands for "The Entertainment Network"

On mobile so I can't link to the article but Rté is to reinstate it's London presence with a London Correspondent, a smaller role then Brian O Connell's former Editor role. Internal advertising starts next week.

Confirmed. Here's the link from RTE directly.

http://www.rte.ie/about/en/press-office/press-releases/2014/1015/652457-rte-to-appoint-new-london-correspondent/

One strange thing. The correspondent is to be based at ITN in London, not the BBC.

Also, RTE is postponing the closure of the Long Wave service until January 2015.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1015/652492-rte-longwave/

The post is being funded by suppressing the current position of European Correspondent once the current incumbent Paul Cunningham finishes his contract in December.

Another bit of swapping from RTE ranks.

Paul Colgan is to move from RTE News to take up the position of Economics Editor at UTV Ireland.

http://www.utv.ie/

RTE's Morning Edition is to be axed from January due to financial constraints at the broadcaster.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/rtes-morning-edition-axed-649920.html

Not really a surprise, almost no one was watching it. Hopefully they can beef up the bulletin at 11pm on News Now instead.