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Annual Report &
Group Financial Statements 2005 
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Contents

Vision and Mission
Highlights
What we do
Chairman’s statement
Director-General’s review
Financial review
Authority
Executive Board
Corporate governance
Authority members’ report
Audit Committee report
Remuneration report
Statement of Authority
members’ responsibilities
Independent auditor’s report
Statement of accounting policies
Group statement of income
and expenditure
Movements in income and
expenditure account
Statement of total recognised
gains and losses
Group balance sheet
Group cash flow statement
RTÉ balance sheet
Notes forming part of the Group financial statements
01 02 03 04 05 06 07
08 09 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Financial history
Charter
Additional statistical information
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WHAT WE DO

RTÉ is Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster. It is the distinctive leader in Irish media, providing comprehensive and cost-effective free to air television and radio services to the Irish public, in Irish and English, which are of the highest quality and are impartial in accordance with RTÉ’s statutory obligations. These services include:

RADIO
RTÉ operates four radio stations.

RTÉ Radio 1, which has news, information, feature strands, debate and sport as its mainstays.

RTÉ 2fm, the national leader in talk and popular music for the under-35s.

RTÉ lyric fm, which is a classical music and arts channel.

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, which delivers an Irish language service, broadly similar in content to RTÉ Radio 1, with special attention paid to traditional music, local news and the issues of the day in the various Gaeltacht communities.
 
TELEVISION
RTÉ operates two complementary free-to-air television channels, RTÉ One and RTÉ Two.

RTÉ One is the Irish public service home of authoritative television news and current affairs coverage of national and international stories, alongside a comprehensive range of commissioned Irish factual, entertainment, drama and lifestyle programming, complemented by select acquired material, to suit a broad audience.

RTÉ Two is a mixed-genre channel designed to appeal to niche audiences across the schedule. The home of The Den for younger viewers and RTÉ Sport during daytime, the channel targets viewers of a younger mindset with innovative drama, such as Pure Mule, and entertainment, such as Naked Camera, in the evenings. Key acquisitions such as Lost and The Sopranos further bolster the schedule.

NEWS

RTÉ provides independent, accurate and impartial news and current affairs programming, in both languages, across all services, including radio, television and RTÉ.ie.
 
PUBLISHING

RTÉ publishes the RTÉ Guide, the best-selling Irish weekly magazine.

RTÉ operates RTÉ Aertel, Ireland’s leading free-to-air teletext service.

RTÉ provides a range of free web based on-line services on RTÉ.ie, Ireland’s most popular media website.
 
NETWORK

RTÉ provides a national analogue transmission network, both for its own radio and television stations as well as for TV3 and Today fm. It also rents tower space on its masts to local radio stations and a range of entities involved in broadband, mobile phone networks, the emergency services etc.
 
PERFORMING GROUPS

RTÉ is a major contributor to the arts in Ireland, and operates five performing groups, namely:

• RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
• RTÉ Concert Orchestra
• RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
• RTÉ Philharmonic Choir
• RTÉ Cór na nÓg

In addition, TG4, a national television channel with Irish language programming forming the core of its service, has resided within the RTÉ Group since it came on air in 1996, pending the completion of a Government review of its relationship with RTÉ.
ORGANISATION STRUCTURE

The RTÉ Executive manages RTÉ’s Integrated Business Divisions and the Group’s Shared Services on a day-to-day basis. The Director-General reports directly to the RTÉ Authority which is charged by the Irish Government with overseeing the activities of the RTÉ Group.

  1. TG4 resides within the RTÉ Group pending the completion of a Government review
    of its relationship with RTÉ.

 

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