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Radio and television broadcasting
Broadcasting in Ireland is regulated by the Coimisiún na Meán, formerly known as the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) until 2023. It is the body that is authorised to regulated what can be broadcasted on radio and TV on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. All three TV companies; RTÉ, Virgin Media Television and TG4 have editorial guidelines. News, current affairs programmes and chat shows are like newspapers, in that they are pretty much free to broadcast on anything, provided they don't break Ireland's strict libel and contempt of court laws. They are also required to be objective and broadcast a range of political viewpoints. Television companies since 2005, have voluntary put a watershed of 9pm in which programming for a mature audience can be shown. A significant quantity of audiovisual media in Ireland including the country main satellite TV company Sky UK, comes directly from the United Kingdom, and as such it is subject to British regulation and censorship. British audiovisual media is not regulated by CM, but by Ofcom.

In January 2014 in an incident known as Pantigate, during a interview on the RTÉ One talk show The Saturday Night Show, the host Brendan O'Connor was discussing homophobia with well known drag queen Rory O'Neill. O'Neill commented in his opinion, that the religious think tank, the Iona Institute, and two conservative journalists John Waters and Breda O’Brien of being homophobic. The three parties collectively threaten RTÉ with libel action, and forced the broadcaster to remove the clip from the catch-up service the RTÉ Player. RTÉ settled the three parties with an 85 thousand euro pre-court settlement. Nevertheless, the pre-court settlement was harshly criticised by members of Oireachtas especially civil rights campaigner Senator David Norris, and MEP Paul Murphy. RTÉ's head of television defended the pay-out stating that it saved RTÉ "an absolute multiple" in the long term.