For years now, you have been able to listen to RTE's radio stations online, but the situation with live video webcasts has been very limited at best. Special events is about all you've been able to watch on very infrequent occasions. Even the RTE News was a recorded video webcast and not all programmes and bulletins were available.
But from St Patrick's Day (March 17th) 2007, RTE News output, will be broadcast live online for all the world to see.
For me, this is a very positive development. The BBC have made their BBC1 News bulletins available online live for quite some time now, but News 24 is not available. The old ITN News Channel was available online from it's launch in 2000, til it became the ITV News Channel. In the US, some local stations air their newscasts live online too, such as WCBS TV in News York.
I like the fact that the late night News On Two is also being inlcuded in the live webcast schedule, as this has been the major bulletin that has been missing from the RTE News recorded webcasts.
I will probably be watching a lot of these webcasts.
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