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RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock is RTÉ 's main evening News programme. It is the most watched news bulletin on Irish television. on the RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock]] ORIGINS In the early years of the station the main bulletin was broadcast on the half-hour, at 21:30, as were the station's radio bulletins, where were broadcast at 13:30 and 18:30. In the . EARLY PRESENTERS RTÉ followed the BBC in having its news bulletins presented by Newsreader s, (ie, professional readers, often actors) who took no part on News Gathering but simply read a script presented to them. Among the most prominent 21:30 news readers were , while Derek Davis and others took on the task in the 1980s, as first Mitchell and then O'Doherty retired. THE MODERN BULLETINS The 9 O'Clock News has tried various formats, with at different times one presenter each night or two presenters co-presenting the show. In most recent times the ''9 O'Clock News'', in contrast to ''Six One'', has relied on just one presenter. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, RTÉ switched from using ''newsreaders'' and instead opted to have Newscasters (ie, journalists involved in news gathering reading the news). LENGTH OF BULLETIN The bulletin usually runs for 26 minutes, including an Advertising break which divides the broadcast in two. Though a number of presenters read bulletins, the principal newsreaders for the ''9 O'Clock News'' are Anne Doyle , a long-term news presenter who has been with the station since the 1980s and Eileen Dunne , another established presenter, who for many years delivered the Irish votes at the annual Eurovision Song Contest . STRUCTURE AND LOOK OF THE BULLETIN RTÉ's news-style is heavily modelled on the BBC . It places less emphasis on set and graphics than bulletins on Sky News or ITV News . Traditionally three separate elements were incorporated within the bulletin: news, sports results and the weather forecast. The weather forecast was subsequently separated and is now broadcast directly after the news bulletin.There is usually no sports mentioned unless a major event is occurring with the main night sports bulletin being broadcast on RTÉ News On Two instead. AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET It can also be watched in full as a RealPlayer video stream from its associated Internet Webpage . CONTROVERSY On Sunday going so far as to say he had just died as she was reading the headlines, and tributes beginning to pour in from Northern Ireland reporter Tommy Gorman , but this was retracted at the end of the bulletin. {Link without Title} Whether he was alive or dead was to be disputed as confusion and panic arose following the broadcast, prompting a red-faced Anne Doyle to state that she could neither confirm nor deny his death. Tommy was to apologise on a radio show the following day for his ill-timed misdemeanor. OTHER RTÉ BULLETINS Other , and RTÉ News On Two . On the Internet, the current affairs programs Nationwide , Prime Time and Questions And Answers are also listed alongside these RTÉ News programmes. EXTERNAL LINKS
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