Mr. Steve Carson:

Every piece of content either directly made by RTÉ – we have very talented in-house production teams working across the genres – or commissioned by RTÉ has to be compliant with RTÉ’s editorial standards and with all applicable legislation. We currently commission some podcasts and make some podcasts in-house. They are run through the same editorial processes and they are run by the same editorial line management teams.

Expanding podcasting and responding to our audiences is part of our strategy. We make an observation that technology is blurring some of these distinctions. The difference between audio and audiovisual is blurring because podcasts can be visualised. We are doing that with a big commission later on in the year called “The Traitors”. The press office is going to kill me. We have a visualised podcast around that, which has a bit of TV content, player content and audio content.