in 2017 with a further cut of 50% bring their total spend on Young People's content to just €3.9 million. In 2018 RTÉ increased funding to €5.8 million but by 2019 had cut it back to €4.7m, this compares to support provided to children's content in 2010 and 2011 of €11m. By 2020 funding for Young People's programming came to €5.5 million. History Early history On 1 January 1926, 2RN started broadcasting. It was Ireland's first radio station. On 24 May 1926, there was the first advertised news bulletin on 2RN. 1940s In 1946 Radio Éireann was providing 30 minutes per day to children's programming, across music, plays, competitions and talk. In 1948 a series title "Arts Adventures" began broadcasting with Sean Bunny and Marion King 1960s On 31 December 1961 Ireland's first national television station, Telefís Éireann, was officially launched. A new Television Complex was built at Donnybrook in Dublin. Dáithí Lacha Telefís Scoile - 1964 Schools Television, educational programming for secondary school students. 1970s Wanderly Wagon 1980s By the end of the 1980s all most all Children's and Young People's content had been moved to RTÉ2, prior to 1988 most of this type of content was dotted around the RTÉ One and RTÉ2 schedules. In 1988 Dempsey's Den/The Den, RTÉ's daily programme for children, moved from RTÉ ONE to RTÉ2 (then known as Network 2), it also moved from 16:00 to 15:00, presenting children's programming for 3 hours per day. It did not air during the summer months until 1998, when it became Den2. The programme was largely known as The Den, with its final season in 2010 when it was replaced by RTÉjr and TRTÉ. On Network 2 The Den was book ended by the pre-school programming (Bosco) and teen programming (Jo Maxi). Bosco was produced from 1983 to 1987 and repeat until the arrival of The Morbegs in the 1990s. Jo Maxi ran until the mid-1990s and was replaced in favour of a younger programme called Echo Island. Saturday morning programming in the 1980s aired on RTÉ ONE from 09:00. The first Saturday Morning children's programme was Anything Goes. In the mid-1980s it was replaced by Pajo's Junkbox, which would later become Pajo's Whole Shebang and Pajo's and the Salty Dog. It was followed by Action Station Saturday, which would be replaced in the 1990s by Scratch Saturday. Music Television USA was a music video show