RTÉ Commercial Enterprises

Raidió Teilifís Éireann Commercial Enterprises (RTÉ CEL)

Company type	Commercial subsidiary to RTÉ
Industry	Broadcasting, publishing, advertising
Headquarters	Montrose, Donnybrook, Dublin & Fr. Mathew Street, Cork , Ireland
Area served	Ireland and Northern Ireland Rest of the world (via internet, satellite, digital and analogue services) and Worldwide
Products	Television and radio

Raidió Teilifís Éireann Commercial Enterprises (RTÉ CEL) is the commercial arm of Ireland's public service broadcaster RTÉ or Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ CEL is run independently from RTÉ, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, in similar way to BBC Studios, owned by RTÉ's British counterpart BBC. In 1999 it divested RTÉ of its 40% share of Cablelink. During the 1990s it had great success with Riverdance. It owns and publishes The RTÉ Guide, www.rte.ie and numerous spin off publications from RTÉ shows. It had an interest in Tara TV.

RTÉ CEL was part of the Easy TV (DTT) consortium that bid for one of the three Commercial DTT licences offered by the BAI in 2008.^[1][2][3] RTÉ confirmed on 14 May 2010 Easy TV was "declining their offer to pursue negotiations" on the DTT contract^[4] which ended the application process.^[5]

References

1. McCaughren, Samantha (2 May 2010). "Digital television negotiations reach crisis point | the Post". Business Post. Archived from the original on 6 July 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
2. Hancock, Ciaran (5 May 2010). "UPC to spend €3m on rebranding". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 5 March 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
3. Molloy, Thomas (5 May 2010). "Chorus-NTL renamed UPC as it rings changes with new services". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 8 May 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
4. Noonan, Laura (15 May 2010). "Plans for digital terrestrial TV in tatters after pullout". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 18 July 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
5. "BAI Statement on Digital Terrestrial Television ("DTT") Contracts Awards Process". Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. 18 May 2010. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2010.