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Mon 10 Oct 2008Spreading licence fee around 'to hit RTÉ's public role'
CLERAUN MEDIA CONFERENCE:RTÉ'S ROLE as a public service broadcaster will be seriously undermined if proposals to give more of the licence fee to commercial operators are implemented, the managing director of RTÉ Television Noel Curran has claimed.
At present 5 per cent of the licence fee is made available to commercial operators such as TV3 and Setanta through the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland's (BCI) Sound and Vision fund which was set up two years ago and has distributed €45.3 million to date.
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