RTÉ denies outsourcing will replace its own 'Late Late Show' and documentary units

It comes one year into the broadcaster’s five-year plan for its overhaul, and two years after a series of financial scandals saw the collapse in licence fee revenues and the departure of several senior executives from the organisation. File photo

RTÉ has denied it is set to rely on outsourcing to replace its own documentary unit and staples like The Late Late Show, insisting instead that what’s happening amounts to “working with the full creative economy”.

The broadcaster’s head of video, Steve Carson, said the decision to wind down the broadcaster’s own in-house documentary unit had stemmed in large part from the impact of  RTÉ's voluntary redundancy programme, which remains in progress.