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Nuacht TG4
Nuacht TG4 LogoFormat News & Current Affairs Presented by Maolra Mac Donnchadha, Eimear Ní Chonaola Country of origin Ireland Language(s) Irish Production Location(s) Baile na hAbhann, Galway Camera setup Multi Camera Running time 30 minutes Broadcast Original channel TG4 Picture format PAL, 16:9 Audio format Stereo Chronology Related shows Nuacht RTÉ, RTÉ News External links Website Nuacht TG4 is a daily half-hour Irish language TV news bulletin produced by RTÉ News and Current Affairs for the Irish language Television station TG4. The programme is broadcast weekday evenings at 19:00, live from the studios of TG4 in Baile na hAbhann, County Galway. A shortened edition of the programme is broadcast on weekend evenings at around 18:45.
Format and Presenters
The programme is usually anchored by Maolra Mac Donnchadha or Eimear Ní Chonaola, with Ailbhe Ó Monacháin and Eibhlín Ní Choistealbha occasionally substituting.
Nuacht TG4 also broadcasts a weekly programme called Timpeall na Tíre, which is a review of the week's top stories from Nuacht TG4.
TG4 provides an overnight international news service in the form of a simulcast of the English language version of French public news station France 24.
Nuacht TG4 programme has an average viewership of 35-40,000.
Since September 2010 Nóiméad Nuachta (News Minute) has broadcast each week day at 13:55.
History
Nuacht TnaG initially was broadcast at 22:00 each night, later moving to 20:00 and finally to 19:00 where it currently remains. From 1996 to 1998 Gráinne Seoige was the main news anchor for the channel, in 1998 she moved to TV3 to launch their main evening news where she remained until 2004. In 1998 Ailbhe Ó Monachain became TG4's main news anchor. With the rebranding of TnaG as TG4 the news service also renamed as Nuacht TG4. In 2004 Eimear Ní Chonaola became TG4's main news anchor.
External links
RTÉ News and Current Affairs Bulletins Irish-language Internet Radio Current The Late Debate · Morning Ireland · Today with Pat Kenny · RTÉ News at One · Drivetime · Saturday View · World Report · This Week · The Marian Finucane ShowPast Five Seven Live · The Gay Byrne ShowTelevision Current Capital D · Nationwide · Oireachtas Report · One to One · Prime Time · Prime Time Investigates · The Frontline · The Week in PoliticsPast Broadsheet · Newsbeat · 7 Days · Later with Finlay and Dunlop · Questions and Answers · Today TonightPeople Presenters John Bowman · Richard Crowley · Rachael English · Avril Hoare · Pat Kenny · Aine Lawlor · Cathal Mac Coille · Miriam O'Callaghan · Sean O'Rourke · Michael Ryan · Mary WilsonNewscasters Anne Cassin · Bryan Dobson · Anne Doyle · Eileen Dunne · Brian Jennings · Sharon Ní Bheoláin · Siún Nic Gearailt · Úna O'Hagan · Eileen WhelanReporters Charlie Bird · Philip Boucher-Hayes · Tony Connelly · Paul Cunnigham · David Davin-Power · Richard Downes · Tommie Gorman · Ray Kennedy · George Lee · David McCullagh · Brendan O'Brien · Paul Reynolds · Margaret Ward · Sean WhelanFormer Gerald Barry · Brian Cleeve · Don Cockburn · Barry Cowan · Derek Davis · Sean Duignan · Brian Farrell · Gerald Fleming · Shane Kenny · Éamonn Lawlor · Mark Little · Charles Mitchel · Jonathan Mullin · John O'Donoghue · Olivia O'Leary · John Skehan · Vere Wynne-JonesRelated articles: RTÉ One · RTÉ Radio 1 This article about a television news series is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.