RTÉ Young People's Programming
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RTÉ Young People's Programming (Irish: Cláracha do Dhaoine Óga RTÉ), also known as RTÉ Kids, is a division of Raidió Teilifís Éireann and provides a range of national and international children's programming for RTÉ television, radio and online and also for the independent Irish language broadcaster TG4.
Company type | RTÉ Television and Independent Commissions |
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Industry | Media |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Ireland and Northern Ireland (but some productions exported internationally) |
Key people | Suzanne Kelly (Head of Children's and Young Peoples Content)[1] |
Services | Radio and television broadcasts |
Owner | RTÉ |
Divisions | |
Website |
It broadcasts in English and Irish. The division is based at the RTÉ Television Centre in Donnybrook, Dublin. The department covers both Radio, Online and Television output for young people across RTÉ.
Up to 2016 RTÉ's Young People's Programming Department produced and commissioned content. Independent productions consists largely of animations, live action and entertainment programming, while much of the RTÉ's own produced children's content was studio based. In 2016 RTÉ began cutting funding to Young People's Programming, this resulted in RTÉ axing all in-house productions for children, with no increases to funding for independent producers.