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RTÉ

Media

Tubridy still RTÉ’s highest-paid presenter, but Late Late host sees salary drop

RTÉ today said it had reduced total fees paid to its highest-paid presenters by more than 15 per cent in 2020 and 2021
  • Business Post
  • February 15, 2023
Television

Netflix’s decision to show ads likely to impact revenues, Virgin warns

Commercial broadcaster to raise concerns over increased competition for advertising because of the rise of smart TVs and other digital media
  • Donal MacNamee
  • January 18, 2023
TV and Radio

Dermot Bannon contacted by building regulator over RTÉ’s Room to Improve

The state’s construction regulator contacted the celebrity architect and Department of Housing about the contents of the hit programme
  • Donal MacNamee
  • January 14, 2023
Media

RTÉ restores board member fees amid wide-ranging cutbacks

Siún Ní Raghallaigh, incoming chair of the board, will receive €31,500
  • Cónal Thomas
  • December 3, 2022
Media

Siún Ní Raghallaigh appointed new chair of RTÉ board

Cabinet approved move to appoint the former TG4 finance director to the role following departure of Moya Doherty earlier this year
  • Donal MacNamee
  • November 29, 2022
Media

Taoiseach: Replacing TV licence would be ‘dangerous for democracy’

Government accepts 49 of 50 recommendations from Future of Media Commission, the exception being the call to replace the TV licence with direct state funding
  • Emmet Ryan
  • July 12, 2022
Interview

Erica Cody: ‘An album is a defining point so I want it to be something really special'

The Dublin singer/songwriter has always done things her own way, so much so that she won’t release her debut until she is satisfied
  • Andrea Cleary
  • June 18, 2022

Changing channel: can RTÉ keep its focus and remain relevant in the digital age?

A glance at RTÉ’s finances is enough to show the national broadcaster is not on a sustainable footing. While this has been the case for the past 20 years, it is now faced with competition from a multiplicity of streaming services. Some argue that it should identify and concentrate on core activities. But what are those core activities?
  • John Walsh
  • March 5, 2022

Outgoing RTÉ chair ‘deeply concerned’ about future of broadcaster

Moya Doherty will tell politicians that a confluence of factors including the rise of social media have left RTÉ facing a ‘genuinely existential moment’
  • Donal MacNamee
  • January 26, 2022

Jim Fahy was ‘such a professional, lovely, decent, kind man’

The tireless and respected former RTÉ Western correspondent was buried today
  • Michael Brennan
  • January 17, 2022

Public spending and revenue pared down in pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a dampening effect on state finances, a new set of accounts by the Comptroller & Auditor General has revealed
  • Michael Brennan
  • November 7, 2021

Profits down 36% at RTÉ’s commercial arm as Covid hits revenue

RTÉ Commercial Enterprises reports profit of €5.41 million for 2020, down from €8.51 million the previous year
  • Donal MacNamee
  • October 21, 2021

Willie O’Reilly: Board appointment put Bass in difficult position

Surely, by now, politicians should be aware of conflicts of interest when making appointments to state boards
  • Willie O'Reilly
  • September 26, 2021

TV Review: Rooms with plenty of views in a stroll down memory lane

The RTÉ current affairs presenter Áine Lawlor joined Brendan Courtney for an entertaining look back at the various homes she has lived in
  • Emmanuel Kehoe
  • September 26, 2021

“I don’t know what I want to do but I just know I haven’t done it”

Aidan Gillen has already played more diverse characters than other actors depict in several careers. But this, he tells Edel Coffey, is only the beginning.
  • Edel Coffey
  • September 12, 2021

TV review: Christy Moore’s musical voyage still going strong after 52 years

Mark McLoughlin’s 2016 documentary focuses more on the singer’s strengths as a performer than on his life and times
  • Jonathan O'Brien
  • August 29, 2021

What the pandemic has taught us about virtual schooling

September brings with it the beginning of the academic year. We are still not quite back to student life as we knew it, but this time we have options and we are a lot more tech savvy this year –we just need the funds
  • Fiona Alston
  • August 29, 2021

TV review: Division and delirium as a Constitutional relic was removed

Aideen Doyle, Lucy Kennedy and Maeve O’Brien’s documentary The 8th looked back at the social tumult and occasional rancour that accompanied the abortion referendum of 2018
  • Emmanuel Kehoe
  • August 8, 2021

Radio review: Politics on the podium as Olympics reach their climax

RTÉ’s Drivetime analysed how the Games in Tokyo have witnessed a slew of political gestures made by athletes
  • Sara Keating
  • August 7, 2021

John Gibbons: It is astounding that the climate crisis is not routinely headline news

The Irish media need to shake off their provincial mindset and give the public the coverage this existential crisis so desperately deserves
  • John Gibbons
  • July 18, 2021

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