RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
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| Broadcast area |
Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Worldwide (mainly the United Kingdom on satellite) |
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| Frequency | 92–94 (Ireland) and 102.7 MHz (much of Northern Ireland) FM Digital terrestrial television DAB |
| First air date | 2 April 1972 |
| Format | Mixed network |
| Audience share | 0.7% (150,000 listeners per week) (2008, ) |
| Owner | Raidió Teilifís Éireann |
| Sister stations |
RTÉ Radio 1 RTÉ lyric fm |
| Webcast | WMA, Real |
| Website | www.rte.ie/rnag/ |
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta (Irish pronunciation: [ˈɾˠadʲiːoː n̪ˠə ˈɡeːɫ̪t̪ˠəxt̪ˠə] ("Radio of the Gaeltacht"), abbreviated RnaG, is the Irish-language radio service of the public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. The station is available on FM in Ireland and via satellite and on the Internet. It celebrated 40 years on air on 2 April 2012. The station's main-headquarters are in Casla, County Galway with major studios also in Gweedore, County Donegal and Dingle, County Kerry. RTÉ also provide a Gaeilge television service through TG4.
The station is the only national Irish-language radio station broadcasting across Ireland. It began broadcasting on 2 April 1972, and was the second legal radio station in the Republic of Ireland. Initially RnaG broadcast for only a handful of hours a day and was only available in or near the three largest Gaeltacht districts, but following the putting in place of a fourth RTÉ national radio transmitter network (used for RTÉ lyric fm), the station expanded to 24 hours from 1 October 2001. Listenership figures are hard to come by as the station does not make payments to be included covered in the JNLR listenership survey. It is claimed that as it doesn't carry advertising (the only Irish radio station not to do so) paying to be included in a survey organised mainly for the benefit of the Irish advertising industry would be a pointless waste of scarce funds. It is generally believed that listenership is high amongst fluent Irish speakers but its appeal among those learning the language is not as high as TG4 because (despite being available nationally) it is widely perceived as being oriented (as its name suggests) towards Gaeltacht residents. The station was initially established in response to the pirate radio station Saor Raidió Chonamara which ceased broadcasting once RnaG came on air.
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