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Raidió Teilifís Éireann (Corporate Name)

Preferred form: Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Used for/see from:
  • Earlier heading: Radio Telefís Éireann
  • RTÉ
  • R.T.É.
  • Irish Public Service Broadcasting Organisation
  • Ireland. Raidió Teilifís Éireann
See also:

Doolan, L. Sit down and be counted, 1969.

RTE ́́WWW site, Oct. 27, 2004 (Radio Telefiś Eíreann (RTE)́; Irish Public Service Broadcasting Organisation) Sept. 23, 2012 (RTE;́ Raidio ́Teilifiś Eíreann)

Wikipedia, Sept. 23, 2012 (Raidió Teilifís Éireann; RTE;́ 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 Telefiś Eíreann" to "Raidió Teilifís Éireann", in order to reflect the proper spelling of the name in Irish)

Irish times, 20 July 2009, via Factiva, viewed Sept. 25, 2012 (RTE ́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 RTE ́stood for Radio Telefiś Eíreann, 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 "raidio"́ and "teilifiś" as in the Irish-English dictionary of Niall O ́Dońaill which was published in 1977 and the standardised dictionary of Tomaś de Bhaldraithe which was published in 1959; the national radio services was set up as 2RN in 1926 and became Radio Eíreann in 1937. It began broadcasting a television station in the 1960s and the authority changed its name from Radio Eíreann to Radio Telefiś Eíreann)

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