Ana Leddy, Head of RTÉ Radio 1, and JP Coakley, Radio Head of Operations, joined by Ray Maguire of RTÉ NL, took a trip down to the MW transmitter site in Tullamore the week before it closed. They met up with the Midlands Crew. Click here to see some pictures.

RTÉ's Medium Wave service will close on the 24th of March 2008. You will need to retune your radio if you listen to RTÉ Radio 1 on Medium Wave. Click here for all the information you need Or you can download this information as a PDF here.

After 82 years, RTÉ Radio 1’s MW service will close down on Monday, 24 March.    To mark the end of the Medium Wave service, Brendan Balfe will present Medium Wave Goodbye, a nostalgic programme highlighting some of his favourite moments on Irish radio.   Click here for more information on the programme.

For more about MW switch off and how to Stay Tuned to RTÉ Radio 1, Click here.

From 9.00am on Friday 14 March RTÉ Radio 1 will broadcast on FM 87.8 from the Clermont Cairn transmitter near Dundalk in Louth.

Listeners to RTÉ Radio 1 in the Northern Ireland areas of Belfast, Armagh and Down, and in parts of the Republic of Ireland, particularly Louth and Monaghan, should retune to RTÉ Radio 1 on FM 87.8.

RTÉ Radio 1 is swapping frequencies with RTÉ lyric fm on the Clermont Cairn transmitter. This will greatly improve the RTÉ Radio 1 FM signal in the densely populated Belfast metropolitan area and southwards to Louth.

RTÉ has prioritised RTÉ Radio 1 versus RTÉ lyric fm for cross-border transmission to enable more Northern Irish listeners receive RTÉ's main speech service. RTÉ will shortly apply for a new frequency for RTÉ lyric fm in this part of the north-east. As an interim measure, from 14 March, RTÉ lyric fm will be available on FM 95.2.

RTÉ Radio 1 will also continue to be broadcast on LW 252 and on the internet at www.rte.ie/radio1

The LW 252 transmitter was upgraded in 2004 and broadcasts across the island of Ireland, into Britain and beyond.

RTÉ will advise listeners of the new FM frequency for RTÉ Radio 1 in the Belfast area via presenter and on air announcements from now until 14 March.