Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Future of the Media Sector: Discussion
Mr. Alan Esslemont:
On the diaspora, all of TG4's commissioned content is available worldwide. That means, for instance, if one is Australia or wherever. Cinema is slightly different. From day one, we have been able to serve the diaspora that way.
Since the start of the year, we have also tried to serve, especially the USA, in a linear way. From 2 a.m. onwards, we have started to repeat our schedule. One could be sitting in Boston and turn on TG4 and get a full linear service. We are proud of that. It is something, working with the independent sector, on which we were able to agree that we had worldwide rights for commissioned content. That is at the core of TG4's DNA.
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