1965: EAMONN ANDREWS on RTÉ | Late Night Line-Up | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive

Denis Touhy presents a special edition of Late Night Line-Up, live from the RTÉ Television Studios in Dublin, that examines and discusses the work of the embryonic Irish national broadcaster.

He interviews Eamonn Andrews - who is best known in Britain as the host of Crackerjack and This Is Your Life - but who has more recently, in his role as RTÉ chair, played an integral part in setting up the Republic of Ireland's state television service.

Mr Andrews discusses some of the challenges RTÉ has faced in its first three years. He explains the reason it has adopted a hybrid funding model - part public license fee, and part private advertising - and the pressures that come with such a model. What are his hopes for RTÉ in the future?

Originally broadcast 4 August, 1965.





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