RTÉ Radio 1 will bring the 2012 Olympic Games action into your home, your car, your office or wherever you may be this summer with comprehensive coverage across the schedule.
For the duration of the games, Radio 1 will bring weekend listeners extra sports bulletins every hour on the hour between 10am and 1pm. As well as our regular Saturday and Sunday Sport programmes, we will be keeping listeners abreast of what is going on with a special weekend Olympics programme The Games: London 2012 presented by Neil Doherty that will run on Saturday 4, Sunday 5 and Saturday 11 August.
During the week, running between Monday 30 July and Friday 10 August (7pm – 10pm), John Creedon will host an extended programme that will see Con Murphy join him to bring listeners all of the latest news from the London Olympic Games alongside the eclectic blend of fantastic music that we have come to expect from the programme.
Weekdays will also see the regular daytime schedule complemented as our man in London, Des Cahill, along with former Olympians Thomas Chamney, Eric Donovan and Kevin Williamson to name but a few, keep listeners updated with regular reports on Morning Ireland, Today with Pat Kenny and Drivetime.
RTÉ 2fm will bring listeners up-to-date reports from the 2012 Olympics along with sports bulletins throughout the event.
On RTÉ lyric fm, a selection of sporting scores will match the momentum of the Games. On Thursday 26 July, Paul Herriott will present the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles as they perform London Olympic Games: Music National – A Sporting Fanfare, recorded in March 2011 at the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow.
George Hamilton will be bringing the atmosphere of the Olympics to his lyric listeners too as The Hamilton Scores broadcasts live from London on 28 July, 4 and 11 August.
For RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Sports Editor Gearóidín Nic an Iomaire and Seán Bán Breathnach will be covering the games from the opening to the closing ceremonies, with a particular emphasis on events featuring Irish athletes. They will feed live commentary and reports into station programmes throughout the two weeks of the 2012 Olympic Games.
Digital radio station RTÉ Choice will be airing The Olympic Years, a series of 12 programmes which feature the music, major world events and the major headlines from the Olympics of that year, covering five decades of the games.
The series, presented by John Kenny, starts with 1956 in Melbourne and goes right through to the 2000 games in Sydney.
RTÉ Radio listeners can tune in to all of the Olympics action on FM, LW, Digital Radio and online via the RTÉ Radio Player www.rte.ie/radioplayer.
