Radio Telif�s �ireann

Its principal stations

Television

• RT�1 (launched in 1961 as Telif�s �ireann, or simply RT� when there was just one station)
• Network 2 (originally called RT�2)
• TG4[?] (formerly called Telif�s na nGaeilge, Irish language Television)

Radio

• Radio 1
• 2 FM (formerly Radio 2, the RT� rock and pop music station)
• Lyric FM (classical music station)
• Raidi� na Gaeltachta[?] (the Irish language station targeted at the gaeltachta�, the Irish language speaking areas of Ireland)

RT�'s longest-running show is the Late Late Show on RT�1, a chat show that started in 1962 and regularly remains the most watched programme.

In 2003, RT�'s reality TV[?] show Cabin Fever made the news when the ship, on which contestants where scheduled to remain for eight weeks (with one person voted off each week by viewers and forced to "walk the plank" (literally)) was thrown into chaos when the sailing ship on which the show was taking place hits rocks off [Tory Island]] (off the Irish coast) and sank. All the contestants escaped unharmed.

External link

• RT� Interactive (http://www.rte.ie/)