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Coimisiún na Meán is very concerned about the video circulating on social media regarding an assault on a 14-year-old in Meath this week. 

When we are fully operational, we will be enforcing rules that require platforms to rapidly remove this sort of harmful content, once it is brought to their attention. We will also be enforcing other rules related to harmful and illegal content.

In the meantime, given the seriousness of this incident, Online Safety Commissioner Niamh Hodnett has asked the main social media platforms to urgently provide An Coimisiún with a report on what they have done to remove the video and to ensure that that it is not reuploaded.

An Coimisiún, which was established on 15^th March 2023, is currently finalising its workplan for the next 12 months, which will include designating services for regulation and developing and putting in place a binding online safety code.

The code will set standards for how providers minimise the availability of harmful content and the risks that it poses, including the speedy removal of such content.

Protecting minors from harmful content is extremely high on An Coimisiún’s agenda and will play a key part in these online safety codes.

As part of the development of the codes, An Coimisiún will consider a range of obligations, which might include matters such as how providers handle complaints about harmful content, how they protect children from age-inappropriate content, and how they minimise the number of people exposed to harmful content.

An Coimisiún’s workplan, which covers its start-up phase to February 2024 when the EU Digital Services Act will be fully applicable, will be published in June.  

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The latest JNLR/Ipsos MRBI report into radio listening is published today (11.05.23).

On behalf of the JNLR Committee, a media release and summary information tables are available to download here.

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Please note:

Media queries regarding individual programme or station performance should be directed to IPSOS MRBI or the relevant broadcaster.

Comisiún na Meán has today published a Guide for Applicants and Application Form for Round 49 of Sound & Vision – The Broadcasting Funding Scheme which opens today (20^th April) and will close at 12noon sharp on 30th May 2023.

A webinar for prospective applicants will take place on 26^th April, register by email to sv4@cnam.ie .

This round is open to independent producers and broadcasters to support new programme productions.

Applicants can access the application form and guide for applicants here.

Coimisiún Na Meán has announced the outcomes of two recent Sound & Vision funding rounds.  More than €7.5m of funding will go to broadcasters and independent producers to make high-quality programmes about Irish culture, heritage, and experience for broadcast on a range of national, local and community Irish radio and TV services.  This was the final tranche of funding awarded by the BAI ahead of its dissolution on the 15^th of March 2023 and the establishment of Coimisiún na Mean, Ireland’s new commission for regulating broadcasters, online media, and supporting media development.

Round 47 of the Sound & Vision 4 Scheme received 140 applications seeking funding of just over €12.8m.  Of those, 96 projects were successful, with a total value of approximately €7.29m.  This comprised funding of €636,000 to 67 radio projects and €6.66m to 29 TV projects.  35% of the funding will support the production of programmes in Irish/Bi-lingual. 

Regarding format, 38% of the funding will go to documentaries, 20% to dramas, 18% to entertainment, 13% to education and 10% to animation programmes.  Contemporary society (38%) was the most popular genre recommended for funding, followed by Children’s (25%) and Arts / Culture (22%).  Of the projects recommended for funding, 81 will be produced by independent producers/production companies, amounting to approximately 95% of the total recommended funding.

The  allocation of €7.29m in this round includes  an additional €1m in funds secured by the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media, Catherine Martin, to support the scheme’s operation in 2023.

Under Round 48 of the Scheme, funding of €645,000 is being offered to 17 community broadcasters nationwide to enhance social benefit content and activities for their communities.  This round was open to the community TV sector for the first time marking the sector’s adoption of the Community Media Social Benefit Framework.  The package of recommendations will provide for a diverse range of programme productions, outreach and training activities, by a variety of community stations, groups, and individuals across the community broadcasting sector.

A full list of the successful projects being offered funding for round 47 is available to download here and a full list of the projects being offered funding for round 48 is available to download here.

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Media contact: Joanne Ahern, DHR Communications, Tel: 087-9881837.

All other queries: Coimisiún na Meán, 01-6441200.

Note to Editors:

These rounds were the final funding allocation of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (“BAI”) before its dissolution on the 15th of March 2023.  The functions of the BAI have now been transferred to Coimisiún na Meán, Ireland’s new commission for regulating broadcasters and online media and supporting media development.