Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. Paul Mulligan:

Yes, within the regulations, RTE is permitted on television to have 10% of its broadcast time as advertising. Commercial channels are allowed 20% and so that averages out at six minutes in the hour, as opposed to 12 minutes in the hour. On RTE radio, RTE is permitted to have 7.5% of its time in advertising, whereas local and commercial radio is allowed 15%. Therefore, it is half.

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