Tune to Vatican Radio on RTÉ 1’s new digital radio station RTÉ Choice every night between 8.44pm and 9.00pm for world news, commentary and announcements by Pope Benedict XVI.
Producing more than 42,000 hours of simultaneous broadcasting and covering international news and religious celebrations, Vatican Radio is the voice of The Pope and The Church to its global congregation.
Commenting on Vatican Radios addition to the RTÉ Choice week Ronan Kelly, RTÉ Choice scheduler, said: ‘It’s fantastic now that we can listen to Vatican Radio in Ireland. Just like so many other programmes on RTÉ Choice we’re given fresh and different views on the stories that make the news day in, day out. With Vatican Radio we have the opportunity to be kept up to date with the Catholic Church whilst catching all the latest world news at the same time.’
Since the station began broadcasting in 1931, it has not only reported historical events but has also made them. Throughout World War 2 Vatican Radio served as a source for news and propaganda for the Allied Forces whilst being surrounded by the fascist Italian state. Warnings and threats didn’t prevent Vatican Radio from broadcasting to an unbelieving world where Poles and Jews were being rounded up and forced into ghettos.
The historical radio station broadcasts to 61 different countries, in 47 different languages and now it’s come to Ireland where you can hear it only on RTÉ Choice
Tune into Vatican Radio on RTÉ Choice on online at www.rte.ie/digitalradio and on DAB digital radio sets in the Greater Dublin area, Cork and Limerick, every night at 8.44pm.
For further information please contact: Jack Fox, RTÉ Radio Press and Publicity Office, 01- 208 2452, Jack.fox@rte.ie
