Fair City production to move off RTÉ site in next 5 years

RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst has told a meeting of staff that production of programmes, including Fair City and The Late Late Show, is to move off site over the next five years.

In the case of The Late Late Show, he said that it is a more complex editorial programme and that it could possibly be produced by an in-house team in conjunction with an independent company. The director general said that the broadcaster must have a transparent and sustainable financial model, as part of a new commercial strategy.

Commissioned spending is to rise from €47 million this year to around €70 million per year from 2026 - an increase of over 60%.The aim is for the broadcaster to have a"world class digital portfolio". Mr Bakhurst said that wider public access to RTE's archives of broadcast and online material is important, and will be further worked on.The broadcaster has a strong national footprint, according to the stategy, that it wants to rebalance further, through commissioning and internal production changes.Mr Bakhurst said that a rebalancing in the number of people working in Dublin and Cork is likely, as the broadcaster should reflect all of Ireland.

He said that management has looked at a number of options, including a move elsewhere to a location off the M50 or in Dublin city centre.New state of the art studios are to be built in Donnybrook, he added, partially because a number of the existing buildings are 50-60 years old and would take considerable investment to bring them up to environmental standards.

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