Will RTÉ Television Disappear Completely?
“RTÉ television will disappear completely in our lifetimes. Inevitable with the current trajectory.”
Summary
RTÉ Television remains an active public service broadcaster in Ireland, with recent reports noting financial pressures and the need for strategic adjustments, but no credible evidence predicts it will cease operations within our lifetimes. While overall television viewership is declining, there are no authoritative forecasts indicating that RTÉ will disappear completely.
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- Reuters Institute Predictions 2026: The Scorecard
Publishers specialising in lifestyle or utility content such as weather, TV guides, or horoscopes have seen the steepest declines, linked to the arrival of Google’s AI summaries at the top of search results. Press Gazette Breaking news, counterintuitively, is holding up better — more on that below. The practical implication the report pointed to — reduce dependency on search, invest in owned audiences, newsletters, and direct relationships, is now less of a strategic choice and more of a survival necessity.
- ‘Traditional TV is dying’: can networks pivot and survive? | Warner Bros | The Guardian
The question is now whether companies such as WBD – home to TV and film content including Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, The Big Bang Theory, Succession, Friends and all Olympics events – can build the scale and make significant profits from their streaming operations before the death of linear television delivered by cable, satellite or aerial.
- Judge blocks Trump's executive order to end federal funding for PBS and NPR | PBS News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing the First Amendment, a federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, two media entities that the White House has said are counterproductive to American priorities.
- Conjugaison du verbe disparaître féminin - Le Conjugueur
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- RTÉ Television - Wikipedia
RTÉ Television is a department of Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland's public service broadcaster. Its first channel was Telefís Éireann, which began broadcasting on 31 December 1961. Since the 1960s, RTÉ Television has added channels and digital television service.
- RTÉ - Wikipedia
Labour criticised RTÉ for not releasing the data sooner and said "This information should be easily available and there should be no question of concealing it or making it in any way inaccessible ". Many of the highest-paid stars are not technically members of staff but are paid through separate companies, enabling them and the station to avoid paying taxes on their salaries. Former DG, Dee Forbes, tackled the matter in 2022 by saying "Some 1% of our cost base goes towards our top-paid employees."
- Digital radio in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia
The broadcaster was raided by the Garda in 2020 and resumed broadcasting in Cork, Dublin, Sligo, Waterford, Dundalk, Limerick. These transmissions have ceased. All of RTÉ's digital radio services, and the private radio service Radio Maria Ireland, are available on Saorview.
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann — Wikipédia
Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ ; en français : « Radio-télévision d'Irlande ») est le service public de radiodiffusion et télévision en Irlande. Cette entreprise s'implique fortement dans la production et la diffusion d'œuvres audiovisuelles. Elle produit des programmes et les diffuse ...
- RTÉ needs renewed focus on public service broadcasting, union-backed paper states – The Irish Times
The union-backed document cites the various opposition proposals for funding, adding that with revenues from the licence fee hit by negative sentiment, a new approach is needed. RTÉ and Ireland are not alone in facing the challenges involved, it says. “The decline of public media has allowed space for the spread of disinformation, a fuel for increasingly divisive political movements.
- Looming revenue pressure for RTÉ with 25% of people watching less than minute of TV weekly – Admatic.ie
While it said that RTÉ has done ... pandemic and RTÉ’s governance crisis as the reason. The report indicated there has been a long-running decline in TV viewing by children and young adults, but that viewing by older audiences has held up well, with those aged 55 or over ...
- ‘Cela, aussi, disparaîtra’ - LaTrompette
La surface entière de la terre disparaîtra et sera remplacée par une « nouvelle terre » (Matthieu 24 : 35 ; Apocalypse 21 : 1 ; Psaume 102 : 25-26). La vie, c’est l’expérience. Elle est faite de victoires et de déceptions, de prospérité et d’épreuves.