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RTÉ HAS OUTLINED its strategy for the next five years, which aims to ensure “the future and the relevance of a transformed” national broadcaster.
‘A New Direction’, published this afternoon, is set to guide RTÉ from next year until 2029.
The report states that during this period, RTÉ will “transform in order to take account of major changes in the media landscape, evolving audience preferences and behaviours and the expanding role and importance of public service media”.
Much of it involves enhancing its current offerings, such as the RTÉ Player, while investing in new digital services.
A new audio app, which will serve as a platform for delivering “a full suite of audio content from RTÉ for listeners to access and discover”.
Audience insights will be gathered on the app to shape the content strategy. It will be launched next year.
As a result, four digital radio services (RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, RTÉ 2XM, RTÉ Pulse and RTÉjr radio) will close before the end of the year “ahead of refreshed content within the new Audio App”.
A new daily news podcast.This will bring digital audiences “the story behind the stories” and provide additional insights into the news and events of the day. This will also be launched in 2025.
There will also be a new RTÉ News App launched next year to showcase “the best of the depth and breadth of our quality journalism, making more creative use of text, video, images and other storytelling devices with content that is worth sharing”.
A dedicated Disinformation Unit will be established in the broadcaster’s news and current affairs department. This will also see the establishment of a new Disinformation Correspondent role at RTÉ. It will be launched in 2025.
A feasibility study for a new digital Irish language radio station targeting
15-34 year-old listeners will be undertaken in 2025.
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A sign-in feature will be introduced for all RTÉ Player users in an effort to make the service more personalised.
The RTÉ Player will also have a “redesigned and further improved interface” and new features, such as Live Restart. This will be introduced in 2026.
There will be a 100% increase in the hours of children’s content available on the RTÉ Player by 2026.
The broadcaster will invest in a new production centre in Cork, which will be home to a mix of in-house and commissioned programmes. The production centre will have a dedicated regional commissioning editor and will begin operations in 2027.
RTÉ will also explore joint ventures with independent service providers in the new production facility.
The broadcaster will aim to have 60 hours of original Irish drama and comedy on air by 2028.
New online channels on RTÉ Player, such as RTÉ as Gaeilge and RTÉ Archives, will also be launched by 2029.
By the end of 2029, the RTÉ One + 1 and RTÉ2 + 1 channels will close. The report says this content will be available more widely on-demand.
Closing these will allow RTÉ to “reduce the cost of traditional broadcast distribution” as they prioritise the delivery of live and on-demand content through digital products, it says.
It will also reduce the share of staff based in Dublin. By the end of the strategy period, it said the number of employees based outside of the capital will rise from 13% to 20%.
Director general Kevin Bakhurst said the new strategy sets out “transformative change in how we deliver for audiences and how we run the organisation”.
“It is a plan based on our core values. It is outward looking and ambitious – but it is deliverable,” he said.
“We are determined to build a strong, modern RTÉ that will play its role in Irish life, that Ireland will be proud of and that will deliver a better outcome for the public we serve.”
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@Brendan O’Brien: another post ruined by you and Basildon Joe, I honestly pity you both, got nothing going on in your pathetic lives than to type absolute sh!te on here every waking hour
@daragh harmon: Jesus was sacrificed, wasn’t he? And he’s sacrificed again at every mass, and he body eaten and blood drank. Also, your god aborts more ‘unborns’ than humanity does.
@Dave G Doe: That isn’t what happened.
Unfortunately he is still being paid, despite being unemployable. (There is no way any Irish school will employ him.)
@Meatball Martin: I am neither angry or frustrated,just a pity that you have taken over the comment section with your half dozen bs accounts.
Oh well I suppose that is what happens when you don’t work and sit at home in your bedroom all day ,must be a blessing for you after getting kicked of X .
You can maybe try for that job stacking shelves in your Dunn’s
@A D: Enoch Burke showed up outside the school again today.
When asked by the media, he said “It’s not the first day I have been out in the cold. I am not protesting, I am reporting for work.”
I suppose his father is driving him several hours to get there, and collect him. It’s obvious the fines need to be increased.
@eoin fitzpatrick: No, you lot are. So much so you want Ireland filled with them. Then it’s game over. Women should worry about weak men like you ever getting power or say.
@eoin fitzpatrick: which are already 10 a penny in most towns. paying 4 or 5 euro to someone to mix beans with hot water. of which the farmer is earning a fraction of 1 cent for providing said beans.
@Injustice Cop: Which part of what Jack wrote is wrong?
And which part is bitter?
Would it not be far more true that it is you who is bitter that your religion of lies, misery and evil is being discarded by society, and that you will no longer be able to control people and commit evil with impunity?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: No, it would not be far more true that I am bitter for pointing out a disrespect comment that can easily be interpreted as being from a bitter person. You think religion has the monopoly on evil? Risible and quite puerile commentary from, what appears to be an ingénue. Good luck to you!
@Meatball Martin: I’m not angry, in fact I’m a bit said. Religious faith gives piece and support to many, that that is fine for them. Even as an Atheist I believe Jesus existed and wrote important pacifist teachings, that accepted the marginalised and downtrodden, which is all the more remarkable given the context of the time, a brutal Roman occupation. People are welcome to their beliefs once they don’t force it on others, or indeed use to to conquer land and minds.
@David Jordan: jesus wrote nothing, he would most have been illiterate had he existed, for which there is no proof. There is also nothing in his teachings startingly original either.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: There’s independent evidence that a person, called Jesus by his early followers after his execution, did indeed exist. We find Jesus (not named as Jesus, but identified as a charismatic Jewish religious leader) mentioned by several Roman writers. Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger and Suetonius.
While some accounts were certainly embellished by early christians (Josephus), most secular scholars agree these contemporary and near contemporary accounts give credence to the existence of an important jewish religious leader who was executed by the Romans around 30 – 35 AD, that christians would call Jesus. He was not the only Messiha.
One of the most prominent other Messiahs, not long after Jesus, was Simon bar Kokhba, who led the Bar Kokhba revolt (135 AD). His death led to the ultimate schism between Jewish Christians and Jews (up to about 100 AD, Jewish Christian were permitted to pay in synagogues, as they were considered to be a sect within Judaism, but their decision to accru members who were not Jewish by doing away with Jewish Mosaic law, led to friction and opposition).
It is fascinating to see that in the first couple of decades after Jesus’ death, his followers mostly stuck to recruiting other Jews, but after that did not work out a few disciples broke ranks and started recruiting non-Jews. This led to arguments within the early Jewish Christian sect, and in 48-50 AD, in Council of Jerusalem, they decided to end the requirement for Mosaic law, circumcision, and officially open their sect to non-Jews.
But it wasn’t until c. 135 AD (around the time of the death of Simon bar Kokhba) that Christians were fully seperate from Judaism, an official document was published and read in Synagogues excommunicating them. This separation also consolidated Jewish identity, since identity is often only defined by self-identity, but knowing who you are not.
It is actually fascinating to read about how the decisions they made were practical and logical, not directed by religious revelation or direction, but they just changed the rules to suit themselves as they needed more members. And that’s why they got kicked out of synagogues, too much prostalysing and opening up to non-Jews. So we have Christianity, not a sect that remained within judaism, once popular but withered and died.
By the way, a lot of numerology (number 3, 7, 14, 40 etc.) and symbology in the the New Testament was written for Jews who would have understood the meaning of specific symbols. These symbols were incorporated into the NT when Jewish Christians were trying hard to convert other Jews from within Judaism. The meaning of this numerology were lost by the time Christianity got to Rome, early 2nd century, but they compensated with the Book of Revelations, that added a lot of symbology and hidden meaning about Emperor Nero (died 68 AD) that kept Roman citizens interested.
@David Jordan: none of your “evidence” stands up to scrutiny. In a court of law, all the evidence for jesus would be disallowed as heresay. There were several Jewish teachers, indeed non Jewish too, but one of the criticisms by non Christian scholars of Christians was that these stories were allegorical and never meant to be taken literally. Even Josephus in his mention of Christians, described their beliefs as superstitious nonsense, albeit his mentions of the cult don’t stand up to scrutiny. Deification was common at the time, many Roman emperors were declared to be divine, including one contempory of Jesus whose name escapes me at the minute. This Emperor had an auspicious birth, raised the dead and there are contemporary references to his Gospel. I believe it’s all mythology.
@Dermot Blaine: I am not claiming that Jesus was divine or supernatural, I’m merely pointing out there is reason to believe that there was a historical person who fits the description of a physical person no more supernatural than you or me, who likely founded an Jewish Christian (Nazarenes) sect in the early 1st century, when Judaism was was in turmoil due to Roman occupational and Greek Hellenisation. It’s just interesting to read how the geopolitics of the time and a few clever decisions made by the sect ensured Christianity ended up a dominant world religion.
Even through some slime burps from the usual chatroom armpits, this has been a better read than the article. The problem with atheism tho is that it does owe part of its development to Christian theology
@Meatball Martin: Atheists don’t give a flying fk about religious nonsense. The closure is a progressive sign that society is moving on from the church.
Thankfully, we have Fianna Fail back in government, it is wise to keep the strong bond with the Church, as a staunchly Catholic nation, it is imperative that we hold on to wholesome family values
Let me get this straight, who wrote these “Religious” books? Certainly wasn’t a typing pool of Angels or Gods, it was busybody humans. And they certainly didn’t “channel the word of God”, maybe the other voices in their heads, not “God”. Good Riddance to fake industries like these, preying on the poor and gullible.
@Meatball Martin: he got jailed because he wouldn’t call a him a her. Absolutely bananas. If a non Christian did it no problem. Norma Foley washed her hands totally if it.
@Pork Hunt: yes, but the anti Catholic bigots on here can’t accept that it’s not about religion, but everything to do with science, it’s a biological fact
@Pork Hunt: he got jailed for disobeying a court order, which was put in place because of his behaviour. Which order he disobey again yesterday. Norma Foley couldn’t do anything as the hearing into his dismissal hasn’t yet taken place, why? because Burke keeps blocking it. She did keep paying his salary though, I wouldn’t have. He needs psychiatric help, he’s got a martyr complex.
@Dermot Blaine: he didn’t call the trans by the new name got kangaroo courted by school BOM and didn’t agree with procedure. Norma coulda stepped in and said cop on the lot of ya but was fine to stay mute and woke off
@Pork Hunt: there was a hearing pending into his intolerant and uncaring refusal to agree to the request of a troubled teen, but before the hearing could happen, he verbally attacked the school principal at a social event, for which he was rightly fired. There are ongoing attempts to have a hearing into his sacking, but he keeps blocking it. And he keeps blocking it because he knows he will lose and his salary will stop. Even the evangelical groups in the US who originally supported him have run a mile. I blame the mother, poor lad needs mental help. This is 100% on him and his dysfunctional family.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: so a male can become pregnant, have periods, and breast feed? I must have been asleep in class when they covered that chapter, ya clown lol
@Pork Hunt: Nothing to do with the child involved, he was told not to go to the school by the judge aka by court order and broke it.
Nothing else. They are the facts. Clear and simply put.
@Meatball Martin: No, loads of people believe that and there is no court order saying you cannot believe that.
There is one saying that Enoch cannot go to the school!
Facts, they really upset people at times.
@Pork Hunt: There are procedures to follow and they were. The Ministers staff would have checked them to see everything was done correctly. If they were there is nothing that she can do. She too has to follow the rules and regulations and the procedures and protocols in the department.
@Pork Hunt: nothing to do with that. He got jailed because he was asked to stay away from the school and refused to do so. Disobeying a court order is a crime. He didn’t lose his job because he didn’t adhere to a child’s pronouns. He lost his job because he assaulted his principal.
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