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 Screenshot of RTÉ.ie on 27 October 2021 | |
Type of site | Portal |
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| Available in | English Irish |
| Owner | Raidió Teilifís Éireann |
| Created by | RTÉ Publishing |
| URL | www |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | 26 May 1996; 29 years ago (1996-05-26) |
| Current status | Active |
RTÉ.ie is the brand name and home of Irish broadcasterRaidió 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 thelicence fee which funds much of RTÉ's activity.[1] The site, it says, is funded by advertising and sectionsponsorship. However, RTÉ has had to defend itself from allegations of anti-competitiveness brought about by licence fee support.[2]
As of 2010[update], it was among the top 4,000 most visited websites globally, byAlexa 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]
TheRTÉ News and Current Affairs independent business unit is branded as RTÉ News.[citation needed] 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 forgeneral elections,referendums, and throughout thenational 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.[citation needed]
On 10 June 2010, RTÉ relaunched their entertainment andRTÉ 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 theRTÉ Television andRTÉ Radio sections, while access to themed selections from theRTÉ 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]
RTÉ.ie has won severalGolden Spider Awards,[10] including an Information Excellence Award (in 1999)[11] and Best Media Service Website award (2004).[12]
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:
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