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us: Raidió Teilifís Éireann



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    • us: Radio Telefís Éireann
    • us: RTÉ
    • us: R.T.É.
    • us: Irish Public Service Broadcasting Organisation
    • us: Ireland. Raidió Teilifís Éireann
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    • found: Doolan, L. Sit down and be counted, 1969.
    • found: RTÉ WWW site, Oct. 27, 2004 (Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ); Irish Public Service Broadcasting Organisation) Sept. 23, 2012 (RTÉ; Raidió Teilifís Éireann)
    • found: Wikipedia, Sept. 23, 2012 (Raidió Teilifís Éireann; RTÉ; a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland; founded: June 1, 1960; headquarters: Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland; type: Statutory corporation; industry: Broadcasting; the Broadcasting Act 2009 (Section 113) changed the name of the organisation from "Radio Telefís Éireann" to "Raidió Teilifís Éireann", in order to reflect the 'proper' spelling of the name in Irish)
    • found: Irish times, 20 July 2009, via Factiva, viewed Sept. 25, 2012 (RTÉ name change fixes spelling error that lasted 40 years; A grammatical error in the name of the national broadcaster has finally been corrected. Up until last week RTÉ stood for Radio Telefís Éireann, however this name has been changed to Raidió Teilifís Éireann; correction was brought in under the Broadcasting Act 2009 which was signed into law by President Mary McAleese last week; the change has taken on the standardised version of "raidió" and "teilifís" as in the Irish-English dictionary of Niall Ó Dónaill which was published in 1977 and the standardised dictionary of Tomás de Bhaldraithe which was published in 1959; the national radio services was set up as 2RN in 1926 and became Radio Éireann in 1937. It began broadcasting a television station in the 1960s and the authority changed its name from Radio Éireann to Radio Telefís Éireann)
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    • 1981-08-11: new
    • 2012-10-09: revised
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