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. Rory Coveney:
On news numbers, we saw a significant rise in younger audiences during Covid. I am sure Mr. Farrell saw the same. Many of those audiences had moved away to digital platforms completely, but we saw them returning in droves. I do not know the current figures, but the audiences have ebbed away a little again as life has somewhat returned to normal. It surprises me that, given all of the devices available to people to find out what is happening, they still tune in in large numbers to mainstream bulletins on RTÉ television, Virgin Media and radio.
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