Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
Future of Public Service Broadcasting and Impact of Covid-19 on the Media Sector: Discussion
Mr. John Purcell:
The fund that the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI, introduced at the start of Covid provides a model whereby stations had to apply for funding, outlined the programming that they would provide during Covid and received money to do that. The alternative to receiving that money and applying it to those programmes was that jobs would have been lost so the type of devastation to newsrooms and talk programmes mentioned would have happened during Covid.
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