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RTÉ.ie

RTÉ.ie is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand RTÉ.ie rather than just read about it. In short: RTÉ.ie is the brand name and home of Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)'s online activities. The site began publishing on 26 May 1996.

Key takeaways

RTÉ.ie belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect RTÉ.ie to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of RTÉ.ie from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

RTÉ.ie is the brand name and home of Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)'s online activities. The site began publishing on 26 May 1996. According to RTÉ, it operates on an entirely commercial basis, receiving none of the licence fee which funds much of RTÉ's activity. The site, it says, is funded by advertising and section sponsorship. However, RTÉ has had to defend itself from allegations of anti-competitiveness brought about by licence fee support. As of 2010, it was among the top 4,000 most visited websites globally, by Alexa rankings, and among the top 10 sites in Ireland with impressions of over 75 million per month and over 4 million unique users. A redesign of the website's home page, news and business sections took place on 13 October 2010.

Online activities The RTÉ News and Current Affairs independent business unit is branded as RTÉ News. The news site was launched in 1998. This section of the site offers access to all the news programmes broadcast by RTÉ on radio and on television. The site employs sectioning of news items, poll features, numerous microsites such as for general elections, referendums, and throughout the national budget. It also provides business news which commenced in 2001 as OnBusiness, which is now RTÉ Business. RTÉ.ie Sport was founded in August 1999 and provides live updating of scores across various disciplines and covers the range of Irish sports along with major world events and other smaller sports and codes with an Irish interest. On 10 June 2010, RTÉ relaunched their entertainment and RTÉ Guide websites. RTÉ TEN (The Entertainment Network) was the new name for RTÉ's online entertainment section. RTÉ TEN planned to be an entertainment news website for the social-media generation, which would connect with users through social media platforms. Other online activities on the site include the RTÉ Television and RTÉ Radio sections, while access to themed selections from the RTÉ Libraries and Archives is also available. RTÉ Brainstorm is a collaboration between RTÉ and Irish universities, which produces written, audio-visual and podcast content to explain ideas to the public. Rather than being commissioned, articles are submitted by members of the academic community for approval.

Awards RTÉ.ie has won several Golden Spider Awards, including an Information Excellence Award (in 1999) and Best Media Service Website award (2004).

Former staff RTÉ.ie has seen a number of its journalists go on to further careers within RTÉ, elsewhere in the Irish media and further afield. Former staff and freelance online journalists have included:

Neil Callanan, Real Estate reporter, Bloomberg News Steve Cummins, freelance music writer Donnacha DeLong, president, National Union of Journalists Blathnaid Healy, Content Manager, WorldIrish.com Caroline Hennessy, food travel and culture writer Sinéad Kissane, sports reporter, TV3 Bill Lehane, online news reporter, Upstream oil and gas newspaper Siobhan Mannion, fiction writer and producer, RTÉ Radio 1's Arena Luke McManus, freelance television director Elizabeth O'Neill, researcher, RTÉ Radio 1 Barry Whyte, editor, Institutionalinvestor.com

See also Australia's SBS CBC.ca – the online service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with RTÉ.ie

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what RTÉ.ie claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to RTÉ.ie before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about RTÉ.ie ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of RTÉ.ie

In research: RTÉ.ie appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses RTÉ.ie in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: RTÉ.ie is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Broadcasting websites, Internet properties established in 1996, Irish entertainment websites, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for RTÉ.ie outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study RTÉ.ie in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what RTÉ.ie means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain RTÉ.ie out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is RTÉ.ie in simple terms?

RTÉ.ie is the brand name and home of Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)'s online activities. The site began publishing on 26 May 1996.

Why does RTÉ.ie matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study RTÉ.ie?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on RTÉ.ie.