‘Love/Hate’ fans boost RTÉ sales

The latest installment of Love/Hate flying off the shelves helped propel RTÉ’s commercial arm to a 10% increase in pre-tax profits last year to €4.4m.

Across Ireland last year, revenues from DVD sales fell 30%. However, the public could not get enough of Nidge’s desperate efforts to maintain his criminal enterprise with the three separate Love/Hate titles ranking as the top three bestselling TV DVDs of 2013.

According to the directors’ report attached to accounts just filed by RTÉ Commercial Enterprises Ltd, in contrast to the sharp downturn in DVD sales, “RTÉ Merchandising recorded significant revenue growth”.