AIB Corporate Finance is to lead a consortium to act as advisers on the establishment of a digital terrestrial broadcasting transmission entity, the Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Ms de Valera, has announced.

The role of the consultants will be to advise on the negotiation and sale of the existing RTE transmission network. The consortium also includes National Economics Research Associates, a firm of economic consultants, the Smith Group, a system engineering consultancy firm, and Matheson Ormsby Prentice, the solicitors firm.