- Five Seven Live
Five Seven Live was an Irish
radio rollingnews programme, produced byRTÉ News and was aired each weekday evening onRTÉ Radio 1 between 17:00–19:00, between1997 and2006 , the final edition being broadcast on1 September 2006 .Programme format
The programme was usually presented in its later years by
Rachael English [http://www.rte.ie/radio1/theconstituency/] (Myles Dungan being the original presenter), withPhilip Boucher-Hayes [http://www.rte.ie/radio1/investigate/1127045.html] often substituting. Main news bulletins were broadcast on the hour and half hour, with headline summaries every fifteen minutes. Sports bulletins were broadcast on the half hour, with a summary on the hour. Frequent traffic updates were provided by theAutomobile Association , and weather forecasts byMet Éireann . A business roundup was broadcast also at 18:45.History
The programme began in 1997, and succeeded a shorter programme, "Today at Five", presented initially for two years by
Pat Kenny and then byMyles Dungan , as well as an RTÉ News at Six-Thirty. This was followed in 1996 by a short lived format, "Daily Record" (from 16:30-18:00), before Five Seven Live was launched months later. Dungan continued as the main presenter of Five Seven Live until2000 . It was the most widely listened to drivetime current affairs programme in the Republic of Ireland. The programme competed nationally against "The Last Word" onToday FM , as well as similar programmes on Independent Local Radio, most prominently "The Right Hook" onNewsTalk 106 .In
May 2006 it was announced that Five Seven Live would end inSeptember 2006 , to be replaced by a longer programme, with the working title Drivetime (eventually adopted as the official title of the new programme). Drivetime incorporates three strands, a main news strand presented byMary Wilson from 17:00-18:30 with a similar format to Five Seven Live, a sports segment (replacing Sportscall) from 18:30-19:00, presented byDes Cahill and a third strand to incorporate music, arts, and popular culture, from 19:00-20:00, presented byDave Fanning , moving fromRTÉ 2fm . The final Five Seven Live aired on 1 September 2006, and the first edition of Drivetime aired on4 September 2006 .Other RTÉ News programmes
Other RTÉ News programmes on radio include:
*Morning Ireland ,
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* Newsbeat (onRTÉ 2fm )
*Saturday View
* This Weekee also
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RTÉ Radio 1
*RTÉ News
*Radio Telefís Éireann External links
* [http://www.rte.ie/radio1/fivesevenlive/ Five Seven Live]
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