Independents pitch for €40m of RTÉ funding

Three hundred and fifty six independent production companies last year made more than 1,400 pitches to RTÉ to secure some of the €40.64m available to make television and radio programmes.

Some of the best-known independently produced work includes hit shows First Dates, Operation Transformation, and Home of the Year.

RTÉ’s Independent Production Unit’s newly published 2015 annual report confirms that, from the 1,402 proposals for TV and 128 for radio work, the unit commissioned 136 television programme and 11 radio shows.