<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">RTÉ to continue spending €250k a year on longwave radio service</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">RTÉ</strong> is going to spend €250,000 per year transmitting its Radio One station to the Irish diaspora in Britain – while closing down all its digital stations.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The station is shutting down RTÉ Gold, RTE Junior, RTÉ 2XM, RTÉ Pulse and RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, but would not specify how much this will save.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">However, it has confirmed that it is going to continue its Longwave radio service to the Irish diaspora in Britain up to 2022.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Read the full story at<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.businesspost.ie/news/rte-continue-spending-e250k-year-longwave-radio-service-axed-457245" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.businesspost<br style="box-sizing:border-box">.ie/news/rte-continue-spending-e250k-year-longwave-radio-service-axed-457245</a></p></div>