01-04-2024, 08:07 PM
There will be no handing over a cheque. Not without a competitive process. It simply won’t happen and VMTV know it.
What the endgame may be is an outcome similar to New Zealand where 100% of the license fee income (or whatever replaces it) goes to Sound and Vision (which as I say is directly modelled on NZ On Air). But we know where that has led in terms of NZ, and what it would mean for RTE. I don’t think VMTV even really want that - a fully commercial RTE would be worse for them really.
What the endgame may be is an outcome similar to New Zealand where 100% of the license fee income (or whatever replaces it) goes to Sound and Vision (which as I say is directly modelled on NZ On Air). But we know where that has led in terms of NZ, and what it would mean for RTE. I don’t think VMTV even really want that - a fully commercial RTE would be worse for them really.