RTÉ to spend €1.8m on new panel to report on audience reaction to its programming

RTÉ says new service 'will enable RTÉ to continue to understand the views of Irish audiences to television programmes and other forms of audio-visual content as well as radio programmes and other forms of audio content on traditional and new media platforms'.

Cash-strapped national broadcaster RTÉ is set to spend an estimated €1.8m over a five-year period on the provision of an ‘Internet-based Audience Reaction Panel’ to its programming.

In tender-related documentation, published this week, it says the service “will enable RTÉ to continue to understand the views of Irish audiences to television programmes and other forms of audio-visual content as well as radio programmes and other forms of audio content on traditional and new media platforms”.