Nuacht RTÉ le TG4, a new partnership with TG4, launched with a brand new studio in Baile na hAbhainn.
RTÉ Radio 1's This Week celebrated 50 years on air.
A substantial majority of Irish adults consider RTÉ to be an important part of Irish life, and RTÉ remains the most trusted source of news amongst Irish adults (77%).
RTÉ Supporting the Arts partnered with more than 130 local, national and community arts events.
RTÉ broadcast 2,073 hours of home-produced content in peak time.
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ Contempo Quartet and the RTÉ choirs performed 207 times in 2018, with attendances up 56% year on year to almost 220,000.
RTÉ Radio 1 continued to be the only radio service in Ireland with more than one million listeners.
RTÉ Investigates was honoured among the world’s best with a New York Festivals prize for Living on the List, an exposé that revealed Ireland’s hidden health service waiting list figures – as well as an IFTA and Celtic Media Festival Torc Award for Excellence for Nightmare to Let, its exposé of substandard and dangerous conditions in Ireland's private rental sector.
The RTÉ Guide won Designer of the Year in Consumer Media at the Irish Magazine Awards following the refresh and new look of the magazine, launched in Spring 2018.
RTÉ Radio 1 was again honoured with the prestigious Broadcaster of the Year award at the 2018 New York Festivals International Radio Awards. Selected from finalists spanning 32 countries, this was the fifth time RTÉ won this coveted radio award.
RTÉ Supporting the Arts was named as a leading cultural sponsor alongside Audi, Accenture, Dublin Airport DUB, ESB and Bord Gáis by Allianz Business to Arts.
The RTÉ Radio 1 Documentary on One production In Shame, Love, In Shame won the International Radio Award at the 65th Premios Ondas Awards in Barcelona.
Saorview Connect won the prestigious IBC Innovation Award for Content Everywhere at a ceremony in Amsterdam.
RTÉ Radio 1 was named Full Service Station of the Year at the IMRO Radio Awards.
The animated short Late Afternoon was awarded Best Animated Short at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Starring Fionnula Flanagan, it was produced for Cartoon Saloon and funded under the Irish Film Board & RTÉ #Frameworks short film scheme.
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