Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann

7:00 pm

Ms Deirdre McCarthy:

Well, just from a news and current affairs perspective, we have nine regions, including Dublin and our Belfast office. Our regional offices are a priority for us. An editor, a correspondent and crews are based in Belfast and cover Northern Ireland for us. We also have our north-east team. In the next few weeks, we will be announcing our new north-west correspondent too. The regions are a priority for us, certainly from a news and current affairs perspective.

What is growing in terms of reaching audiences, because we are an all-island PSM, which is key, even if we look to the British elections taking place this week, is that we will have extra special programmes on Thursday night, including an extended "Prime Time" overnight programme because we will be covering the 18 constituencies in Northern Ireland. These are key to us and our audiences as well. From our news app, it will also be noticed that we have constituency profiles of all 18 areas. Northern Ireland, for us, therefore, is one of our regions, and we treat all our regions equally. It is really important to us, therefore, from a news and current affairs perspective.

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