Don’t Hate The Player

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This morning’s Irish Examiner

This morning.

Via RTÉ:

The headline and the representation of RTÉ’s correspondence with the Public Accounts Committee on the front page of today’s Irish Examiner is incorrect.

The relevant section of the correspondence, included  below, does not state that the RTÉ Player will require investment of tens of millions of euros.

It clearly states that “the level of investment is conservatively estimated to be several million Euro of capital investment as a minimal requirement.”

The tens of millions reference is to the investment of significant capital funding made by linear broadcast services over decades.

Relevant section of RTÉ correspondence with the Public Accounts Committee, dated 9th February states:

“RTÉ’s estimated figure for the required investment needed in the RTÉ Player.

Further product technical scoping and benchmarking will be required to generate specific estimates, but as confirmed by the Director General at the Joint Oireachtas session of 26 January, the level of investment is conservatively estimated to be several million Euro of capital investment as a minimal requirement. In addition, further evolution of the service needs additional specialist skills which will require increased operating expenditure.

On demand and live streaming technology requires extensive investment and infrastructure to deliver parity of service with linear broadcast services, which have been in operation for many decades, with continued investment of significant capital funding to the level of tens of millions.”

RTÉ Player needs investment of ‘several million euro’ (Irish Examiner)

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9 thoughts on “Don’t Hate The Player”

  1. Broadbag

    It has already had a shed load of capital expenditure hoofed in it’s general direction and at least 2 significant ‘revamps’ which were supposed to bring vast improvement…it’s still a complete bag of garbage. It will usually manage to play all the ads though, they nailed that bit. Dee Forbes is as big a charlatan as Dee Wall, absolute joker.

  2. goldenbrown

    ….that RTÉ “almost broke the internet”
    sez Jen out of the IT Crowd Dee Forbes

    did she really say that? LOL what’s she on?

    1. bell

      Dee Forbes led Turner Broadcasting’s business in the UK and Ireland, which consisted of seven entertainment channels, including Cartoon Network, Boomerang and TCM.

      Good training for running RTE, in fairness.

  4. Otis Blue

    In 2017, RTÉ sold just under nine acres of land to Cairn Homes for €107.5 million, well in excess of the guide price of €75 million.

    At the time Dee Forbes said that the funds raised would “be invested in capital projects, including much-needed technology upgrades and key digital infrastructure, as well as making changes to the organisational structure, essential workplace improvements and reducing debt.”

    That worked out well.

  5. ANO

    I wonder if they’ve looked into forming a business relationship with a third party streaming provider at all – RTE don’t necessarily need their own proprietary player and the infrastructure that comes with it.

    They do need to provide VOD and live streaming of their own produced content to people in Ireland as part of the license fee.

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