Up to 20% of RTÉ’s 2,000 staff are to be let go as part of a cost-cutting plan.
Some 400 redundancies costing the station €40M are being targeted in the plan in the wake of the RTÉ payments scandal.
The plan will be announced to staff tomorrow by RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst.
The Strategic Plan aims at “reductions in headcount and overheads but also through how we do our work”.
The plan says RTÉ will commission significantly more content from independent production and the station will be a streamlined, more modern and simplified organisation.
Among the services to be closed include RTÉ Plus One, RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, RTÉ 2 XM, RTÉ Pulse and RTÉ Junior.
A new corporate governance framework will “uphold the highest standards of transparency and accountability”.
There has been a huge kickback from the public following the Ryan Tubridy payments scandal with viewers holding back up to €61M in license fees.
Media Minister Catherine Martin has said that the Government is looking for “genuine cost-saving measures and cost efficiencies”.
