Media Streamer Peacock banks on successful Paris Olympics as it prepares to show off to the worldThe streaming platform, owned by NBCUniversal, needs a successful Olympics to boost subscriber numbers - and keep them around afterwards
Media RTÉ will need legislation to disclose presenters’ outside earnings, Bakhurst concedesIn an interview with the Business Post, Bakhurst said he was disappointed discussed the obstacles to publishing presenters full earnings and the government’s new hybrid funding model
Legal Final report into INM governance scandal to be published next weekMr Justice Garrett Simons received a copy of the report from one of the inspectors appointed by the High Court in 2018 today
Media ‘A reward for inefficiency and bad practice’ - Virgin Media Television hits out at RTÉ funding planThe commercial station’s boss said she was ‘extremely disappointed’ by the government’s decision not to recognise its years of delivering public service content
Media Ian Guider: The government’s RTÉ funding plan is both a damaging missed opportunity and a cop-outPoliticians will be happy to have the issue off their desk for now but it won’t be long before it comes back to haunt the political system and public service media outlets
Media Catherine Martin denies writing blank cheque for RTÉ National broadcaster set to receive €725 million in public funding over next three years
Media ‘Devastating’: New docs recount late night meeting where Siún Ní Raghallaigh resigned from RTÉRecords show RTÉ’s board convened a 10:30pm on the evening of Catherine Martin’s explosive Prime Time appearance
Media Former utilities regulator head Aoife MacEvilly named broadcasting commissioner at media watchdogThe appointment comes as government prepares to sign off on funding plan for RTÉ
Media Joe Molloy leaves Newstalk for new daily sports podcastSeven-time Sports Broadcaster of the Year winner Molloy has left Off the Ball where he spent 11 years
RTÉ RTÉ to be funded by hybrid of licence fee and multi-annual exchequer fundingAfter months of wrangling over how RTÉ would be funded into the future, final plans are due to go to cabinet next week
Media Broadcast moratorium before elections could be scrapped or altered by OctoberCoimisiún na Meán says any changes to the embargo will be made by October
Media Electoral Commission recommends broadcast moratorium ‘should be dropped’ in boost to media outletsThe broadcast moratorium requires radio and television broadcasters to not report on the electoral event in question from 2pm the day before polls open, but does not apply to online or social media
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Opinion Ian Guider: Change is coming at RTÉ, and the staff need to embrace itIrked employees at the national broadcaster need to take a long hard look at the big picture
Media RTÉ snaps up senior Newstalk and BBC execs New appointments will lead broadcaster’s video and audio strategy
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Julian Assange is free but free speech has been damagedProper journalism cannot survive without leaks, and leakers
Politics Reduced licence fee on cards as coalition seeks resolution on RTÉ fundingMeetings are to take place this week on the funding of the national broadcaster which has undergone a series of reforms to cut costs
Media Anton Savage: 2FM is facing catastrophe; it should look to the history of IBM for inspirationWhen the US tech company faced an existential crisis, it brought in a CEO who went back to basics - it’s time for RTE to do something similar
Commercial Property RTÉ to enter talks with housing developer over selling Donnybrook landsBroadcaster this week announced plans to develop ‘a reduced footprint’ at its current site in Donnybrook