Draft RTE Charter published

icdg

The DCMNR has published the draft charter for the corporation which it is proposed to replace the RTE Authority with under forthcoming legislation.

http://dcmnr.ie/files/Draft%20Pub%20Ser%20Broad%20Charter.pdf

Quite short compared with

http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/charter/pdf/charter.pdf

Mind you. the BBC's actual equivlant would seem to be the Licence and Agreement.

DMC

Not a lot there, but the second paragraph there is something that will grab a lot of attention....

"Broadcasting law requires RTÉ's radio and television services to have the character of a public service, to be offered free-to-air and to be universally available, where practicable, to the whole community of the island of Ireland. "

Seismic shift if that happens.

Big section on Regional Emphasis, more indigenous programming made outside of Dublin.

In service provisions, "(the need) to develop content, which can be available to its audience across all delivery platforms."

For accountabilty, the draft proposes an Audience Council "as a means of enhanced communications and will also ensure that all complaints are logged, acknowledged and investigated"

Me would likey a seat, please!

As I said, a thin document, but one that can easily be expanded upon.

dmeehan

Broadcasting law requires RTÉ's radio and television services to have the character of a public service, to be offered free-to-air and to be universally available

would this include going FTA on sky digital?