RTÉ Executive Board
The RTÉ Executive Board, despite its name, is not a board of directors, but rather is a committee composed of the senior management of the Irish public service broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, responsible for the day-to-day running of the broadcaster.
The executive board reports to the RTÉ Board through the director general.
Composition
The executive board is chaired by the Director-General of RTÉ, Dee Forbes.
The board was made up of the managing directors of television, radio, news & current affairs, and corporate development, the chief digital officer, the chief technology officer, the chief financial officer, and the group commercial director until 2017.
The director general is appointed by the RTÉ Board, with the consent of the government and the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht,[1] while the other board members are appointed by the director-general.
In October 2017 a new executive board was put in place[2] the new board dropped the Director of TV and the Director of Radio, replacing them with the Director of Content and the Director of Audience, Channels and Marketing. Frances Abeton left the role of Director of Operations and Production Services at the end of 2018.[3] Willie O'Reilly took up the position of chairman of iRadio,[4] with Geraldine O'Leary taking his position as commercial director, she initially did not sit on the executive board.[5] In 2019 Rory Coveney became Director of Strategy and was appointed to the board, Geraldine O'Leary was also appoint to the board. In 2019 Paula Mullooly joined the Executive board as Legal Director. In 2020 Breda O'Keeffe retired as CFO and was replaced by Richard Collins. On 21 June 2022, Jon Williams announced his resignation as Managing Director of RTÉ News and Current Affairs and stepped down at the end of July.[6] He was replaced by Deirdre McCarthy on an interim basis.[7] On 19 December 2022, Deirdre took the position of Managing Director of RTÉ News & Current Affairs. [8]
Former Deputy Director General and MD of News and Current Affairs will takeover as Director General in July 2023, Kevin Bakhurst will return to the broadcaster after a period of 7 years.[9]
Currently the members of the executive board are:[10]
Position | Office holder |
---|---|
Director-General | Dee Forbes |
Chief Financial Officer | Richard Collins |
Director of Content | Jim Jennings |
Director of Channels & Marketing | Adrian Lynch |
Managing Director of RTÉ News and Current Affairs | Deirdre McCarthy |
Director of Human Resources | Eimear Cusack |
Chief Technology Officer | Richard Waghorn |
Director of Strategy | Rory Coveney |
Director of Commercial | Geraldine O'Leary |
Legal, Director[11] | Paula Mullooly |
Mission to Prey
Following RTÉ's defamation of Father Kevin Reynolds in its "Mission to Prey" episode of Prime Time, RTÉ announced that Ed Mulhall, MD News, had "retired" on 3 April 2012.[12]
References
- "RTÉ announces next Director-General – RTÉ Ten". Retrieved 23 April 2015.
- "Appointments Complete RTÉ Executive Board". RTÉ About. 28 August 2017. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- "RTÉ Executive Board – RTÉ About". RTÉ About. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- Slattery, Laura (30 November 2018). "Willie O'Reilly appointed iRadio chairman". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- Slattery, Laura (18 January 2018). "RTÉ appoints Geraldine O'Leary as group head of commercial". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- "Jon Williams to leave RTÉ". rte.ie. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- Curran, Ian (28 June 2022). "RTÉ names Deirdre McCarthy as interim head of news". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- "Deirdre McCarthy Appointed Managing Director, RTÉ News & Current Affairs – About RTÉ". about.rte.ie. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- Crowley, Sinead (18 April 2023). "Kevin Bakhurst confirmed as new RTÉ Director General". rte.ie. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "RTÉ Executive Board – Inside RTÉ". RTÉ About. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
- "RTÉ Annual Report 2019" (PDF). RTÉ Annual Report 2019: 78.
- "RTÉ MD of News & Current Affairs Ed Mulhall retires, changes to current affairs announced". RTÉ News. 3 April 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2012.