RTÉ Jr Radio

This article is about the Irish children's radio station. For the television channel based on it, see RTÉjr.

RTÉjr Radio is a children's digital radio station of the Irish public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann.^[1] It is Ireland's first children's orientated radio station with a wide variety of programming from news, poetry, nursery rhymes, storytelling, dramas and more. The station broadcasts daily between 7:00 and 21:00 (time-sharing the DAB slot with RTÉ Chill) on DAB and Saorview in the Republic of Ireland and globally through the RTÉ Radio Player.

RTÉjr Radio

Broadcast area	National - Ireland
Frequency	DAB: Mux 1 Saorview: Channel 207 Virgin Media: Channel 942
Programming
Format	Children's Music
Ownership
Owner	Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Sister stations	RTÉ Radio 1 RTÉ 2fm RTÉ lyric fm RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta RTÉ Pulse RTÉ 2XM RTÉ Chill RTÉ Gold RTÉ Radio 1 Extra
History
First air date	1 May 2018 (Officially launched 31 December 2008)
Links
Webcast	WMA, Real
Website	rte.ie/digitalradio/rtejr

The radio station is complemented by the RTÉjr television channel available on Saorview, Virgin Media Ireland, eVision, Aer TV and Sky Ireland.

On 6 November 2019, RTÉ management announced that, as part of a major cost-saving program, all its digital radio stations would be closed, including RTÉjr Radio.^[2] However on 2 March 2021 it was revealed by RTÉ that the broadcaster would close its DAB radio network while retaining its digital radio services.^[3]

On November 16, 2023, RTÉ announced the closure of most of its digital-only services, including RTÉjr Radio, in 2024, as part of the broadcaster's 'New Direction' internal restructuring.

References

1. "About RTÉ: RTÉ Launches RTÉjr and TRTÉ on Television, Digital Radio and Online for Ireland's Youngest Audiences". RTÉ press release. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
2. Halpin, Hayley (7 November 2019). "'Today could be our last': Breakfast presenter addresses widespread RTÉ service and job cuts at start of show". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
3. Crowley, Sinéad (2 March 2021). "RTÉ to cease radio transmission on DAB network". rte.ie.

External links

• Official website
• RTÉ press release about the launche of digital stations^{[permanent dead link]}