BAI tv and Radio Funding Announced

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has given the go ahead for funding on 74 projects from their Sound and Vision Fund. A total of €4.42million from the licence fee has been provided to Independent Producers across Ireland. The fund is worth 7% of the Licence Fee.

This is the 13th round of the scheme, and for the first time accepted applications from both TV and Radio. The BAI received a total of 163 applications, of which 74 were successful.

An average of €59,730 was provided to the 74 projects. 50 TV and 24 Radio projects were approved for funding. 51 programmes will be broadcast on a range of broadcasters from Commercial Broadcasters to Community Broadcasters. The remaining 23 projects will be broadcast on Public Service Broadcasters (RTÉ, BBC and TG4).

The aim of the Sound And Vision fund is to explore the themes of Irish culture, heritage and experiences.

Commercial TV Channels receive a total of €1.19million, Community TV channels received a total of €116,000, Public TV channels received a total of €2.5million. Radio funding was divided between Commercial Radio with a total of €173,778, Community Radio €152,710 and Public Radio €65,950.

Speaking about the announcement, Michael O’Keeffe, Chief Executive of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland said “The BAI is pleased to see such a diverse range of programmes, in terms of genre and formats, being offered funding by the Scheme. In this round the BAI accepted applications for both TV and Radio projects and this has worked well. The Authority considered the recommendations arising from the assessment process and ratified the allocation of extra funding over and above that planned in order to facilitate the production of these high quality projects in a timely manner”.

The next closing date for the receipt of applications to the fund is 13th April 2012 at 12 noon. This round is open to both TV and Radio applications.

Below a list of the productions announced for this round of funding: -

Commercial Television

Public Television

Community Television

Commercial Radio

Public Radio

Community Radio