Irish Examiner view: Time to end RTÉ’s split personality

Now is the moment to revisit and reconstitute the spirit and obligations of RTÉ. If new forms of funding are required, it is not beyond our wit to provide them.

There is nothing in RTÉ’s statement of mission and values about making a profit. Amidst all the lofty stuff about principles and obligations that you might expect from a major corporation, very little is said about the subject of coin.

There are a few words explaining the duality of its sources of funding; a nod in the direction of achieving annual budgets, something which RTÉ has signally failed to do, running a continuing series of deficits. In the real commercial world, it would either be bankrupt, out of business, or taken over by predators a la Waystar Royco and Gojo in Succession.