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2026 RTE jingles recording session

radiofan2023 said:
Here’s a video I found linked on jinglesweb, it’s the RTE jingles being recorded recently:
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Not my favourite package - it's not very distinctive. It's the same old soaring strings and bleepy bloops that you hear on every European public news/talk type station nowadays. I feel like a lot of these jingle companies phone it in a bit - I hear such similar imaging across stations now. RTÉ Radio 1 is full service with news, talk, music programming and I feel like they've taken "News Package 6" off the shelf, there is zero distinct Irishness to the package, it could be on the air in Germany or Norway.

The package itself is here:

I'm surprised that there's no reference to RTÉ's long time signature melody, O'Donnell Abú, which does get used in the intro to the Six One News on TV - the lack of it makes me think it is just an off-the-shelf set of generic Euro news station melodies re-recorded in Ireland:

Worth comparing with the theme to Morning Edition, which does sound distinctly American, with musical references to different aspects of American culture rather than just The News:
current.org

New ‘Morning Edition’ theme aspires to be ‘inclusive and inviting’

The recast theme blends a faithfulness to the original melody with new instrumentation and electronic beats.
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Loved the promo for Riviera Radio showing the 'full orchestra' used in the making of their jingles. The observant will note that whatever it is that the orchestra are playing on the video, it is not synchronised with the jingle! Really lovely jingles though.

 
OK... Just discovered why it doesn't look like they're playing those jingles: the video (and jingles) are re-makes of some Reelworld jingles for Norway's NRK P1. Spot the similarity:

 


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