Kevin Bakhurst

The debate needs to move on from the best way to fund a public-service broadcaster to the best way to fund public-service content

Chairman Terence O’Rourke described 2003 as a ‘difficult and damaging year’ in annual report

Broadcaster says in February and March 133 instances of external activities approved but it was prevented by Data Protection Commission from releasing exact details

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Kevin Bakhurst says it won’t do anything to jeopardise either programme amid plans to move them away from Montrose. But that hasn’t eased fears among sceptical, frustrated staff

Q&A: A crackdown on evasion and nonpayment of the licence fee is planned following announcement of fresh funding for RTÉ this week

Deal with Government not a reward for bad practice, as claimed by Virgin, but a ‘reward for dealing with bad practices’, says RTÉ director general

Existing licence fee payers will be affected by this deal if RTÉ is obliged to make further programme cuts as a result

Taoiseach says multi-annual funding is something most State agencies would give their right arm for’

Catherine Martin says Government will decide before end of month on future financial model for RTE

Bakhurst says he had no preference on future funding model so long as it protects RTÉ's independence, provides the required level of support and is multiannual

If RTÉ is moving away from its DNA, outsourcing key programmes and limiting what it makes in-house, then what is it for?

Seen & Heard: Taxman’s planning payment probe; C&C boss’s pay jump; Stripe’s Wilton Park deal; Bakhurst mulls Montrose sale

Broadcaster needs to serve its audiences but the shift to further privatisation may have worrying consequences

Broadcaster needs to serve its audiences but the shift to further privatisation may have worrying consequences

We waited an age for A New Direction’s ‘third age’, and it already feels rather out of date

Sources suggest group could be established to oversee talks as senior union figures say staff have no confidence in management

Director general Kevin Bakhurst plans to increase independent commissioning to €70m a year. Doing this means making fewer programmes in-house

Government agrees to release first tranche of €20 million in interim funding following reform programme

A year on from Tubsgate was discussed at British ambassador’s get-together before Harris makes a dash to Castlebar

RTÉ strategy for independent commissioning lacks ‘detail and ambition’, Screen Producers Ireland says, as it urges shift to new model by 2030

There’s a new regime at RTÉ, but also some vacancies. Is it time to conscript Generation Z for presenter duties?

The pop station offers a service which is already provided by commercial competitors

Findings of three reports point to a troubling culture, and it will be up to RTÉ to regain the trust of Government and the public

The RTÉ news man has been behind a microphone or in front of a camera for 40 years. Moving on ‘could be a terrible shock to the system’. But for now he feels ‘just fine’ about it

Activists, musicians and actors call for broadcaster to reverse decision on coverage of the song contest over Israeli participation

Broadcaster ‘starved of necessary funding for decades’, union representative tells politicians

Masterson was in television for over 40 years, working on flagship programmes including The Late Late Show

No ghosts, vampires or mummies, RTÉ has told pitching producers. But as it plots its way out of its financial crisis, what type of stories is it bringing to viewers?

Director of content role will be split into a director of audio and a director of video

Records show visits to the Aviva Stadium bookended by restaurant and bar visits

An English case with Enoch Burke overtones; loud objections to Morning Ireland; Stuart Carolan goes cockney; and Daft brother buys big in D6

Then-chair of the RTÉ board Siún Ní Raghallaigh confirmed that she had placed the issue ‘on record’ with the Department

Catherine Martin set out timeline at last Tuesday’s Oireachtas committee hearing of how Siún Ní Raghallaigh’s resignation as chair of RTÉ board arose

Earliest copy of €2.2m loss-making Toy Show the Musical business case released to Public Accounts Committee on Thursday

David Nally was previously the former head of TV current affairs at State broadcaster

Martin’s net point was that the accumulation of incorrect information from the former chairwoman shook her confidence

Appearing before the Oireachtas media committee, the Minister threw further doubt on Siún Ní Raghallaigh and RTÉ's claim that the board’s role in exit package had been communicated to the department

Oireachtas media committee will now extend invitation to Ní Raghallaigh to appear before it