With a view to ensuring the widest audience within the State, television programmes may be funded only if broadcast on a free television service which provides near universal coverage or on a cable or MMD system, as part of a community content contract. Radio programmes may only be funded if broadcast on RTE or on services licensed by the Broadcasting Commission. This means the fund may support additional programming on the three pillars of Irish broadcasting. It will be open to the fund to finance programming carried on national, local and community services. As an effort to increase the range of broadcast programmes, funding is specifically not available for news or current affairs programmes.