In February the consultants moved in using a report prepared by PriceWaterhouseCoopers as a base from which to begin their work. The cuts came in the wake of a ?18.35 licence fee hike, but as this fell far short of the ?63.49 increase RTE was seeking, management was forced to move on the cost-saving reductions and across-the-board reorganisation. Last December the State broadcaster announced details of the cuts with jobs to go in all areas the vast majority - 70 - were to go in the technical sector of TV facilities, 10 in the news division and 31 in the broadcaster's technology and TV services department.Ĭutbacks were to include the popular regional TV programme Nationwide and the entire Lyric FM news team were to go along with all Outside Broadcast Units.Įven the station's ambitious plans for digital television were put on the back burner with cost-cutting of ?635,000 and staff cuts of 13. It was only at the end of last year that the full extent of the crisis at RTE became known and the station announced a series of radical cuts which it said would lead to 150 jobs being axed and save the broadcaster ?31m. KPMG were no strangers to the task having already been hired by the Irish Times to help the financially ailing newspaper. KPMG and British-based management consultants Logical Strategy were hired in February to find more ways to cut costs at the severely cash-strapped State broadcaster. THE hiring of outside consultants to produce a blueprint for going forward in a climate of tighter costs was the first step on the road to financial redemption taken by the RTE.
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