Nationwide (Irish TV series)

Nationwide
Nationwide
Genre	Current affairs
Presented by	Michael Ryan Mary Kennedy
Country of origin	Ireland
Language(s)	English, Irish
Production
Editor(s)	Eoin Ryan
Location(s)	Various
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	35 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	RTÉ One
Original run	March 13, 2000 (2000-03-13) – present
Chronology
Related shows	Capital D
External links
Website

For other uses, see Nationwide (disambiguation).

Nationwide is an Irish television programme broadcast on RTÉ One every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening at 19:00, around 35 minutes long. It is currently presented by Michael Ryan and Mary Kennedy. The programme focuses on human interest stories and cultural events across the island of Ireland^{[citation needed]}, generally but not solely outside of Dublin. The show is produced by RTÉ Cork.^[1]

It, along with Capital D, a programme featuring Dublin, serves a similar purpose to the occasional RTÉ attempts to regionalise news and human interest content in the past ^[2], albeit without the increased technology and transmission costs, which would likely require total re-engineering of the country's transmission and cable television networks. Nationwide itself was the sole programme regionalised in recent times ^[3], but this has now ceased.

References

1. ^ "Nationwide" (in English). RTÉ. http://www.rte.ie/news/nationwide/. Retrieved 2009-06-01. 
2. ^ http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054892057
3. ^ http://www.iolfree.ie/~icdg/local_rte.htm