TG4 received €41m in funding in 2018. Grant-in-Aid (from the government and the license fee) came to €35m, TG4 received €2m for capital grants in 2018, they also received an extra grant for Bliain Na Gaeilge of €1m and commercial revenue came to €4m. Staffing costs at the channel came to €5m, with programme expenditure coming in at €26.5m, transmission and other costs came in at €6m.

RTÉ Annual Report for 2018 was announced yesterday. RTE spend at total of €24,728,000 and made a loss of €13million. RTÉ have stated that the special event costing €7.2million was in some way responsible for the loss rather than the extravagant use of money toward imported programming.